102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with SYP and Black CabHaving undertaken a programme of station refurbishment, improved its ticketing arrangements and introduced new on track plant and shunting locomotives, in 1969 the still embryonic Northern Ireland Railways set out to improve the Dublin Belfast Enterprise service, by replacing the existing diesel railcar sets with a locomotive hauled service. Intended to reduce the time for the 180 km journey to just two hours, the NIR Class 101 (DL) locomotives were

While there was a brief burst of optimism in 2002 when it was purchased by Direct Rail Services as an engine test bed

7714 was an early “contractor” built locomotive

A 3D Printed Driver and Secondman custom scanned and produced to fit perfectly in the accurascale 31

Birchills came under the control of the WMJEA in 1925 and in 1944 it was decided that a new Station

All sounds recorded exclusively for Irish Model Railways by our in-house sound engineer

single spoke and 3-hole disc

Windshield air vents: present

FCA 610028 DB + Suez (E250)

wooden cab roof was retained

DCC Basics bundles

this decoder works seamlessly with the onboard firebox flicker

chemically blackened and conforming to the 00 Gauge RP25-110 standard