103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_Sectorisation

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_SectorisationHaving 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

The model replicates the period after 1949 and carries the extended bunker

Standard sleeper coach 15334

31233 still active for NR

leaving the works on 23 April 1953

Finally returning to the main line towards the end of 2015

It was delivered in December that year to Rawnsley loco shed

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Standard sleeper coach 15314

locomotive not included

Outshopped in large logo livery

Smaller 'iphone' style cube for higher frequencies

The Accurascale class 60 is the product of many years of careful research and constructed using data from 3D scans