102 'Falcon' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound BlackFriday running plate and body with

running plate and body with sprung centre driving axle

Perhaps the most recognisable of the goods vehicles was the humble open wagon with its galvanised pressed metal body

it was occasionally used as a shunter at the RTC site before being sold into preservation at the Mangapps Railway in Essex in October 2018

It later moved to Crewe and became part of the depot’s electric locomotive test train

102 'Falcon' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound BlackFriday running plate and body withHaving 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