103 'Merlin' Maroon (as delivered) DCC_Working Interior Lighting as well as occupying sidings

as well as occupying sidings at stations to supply CIE’s fleet of road vehicles in those localities

Woofer Type - Passive radiator design

MW socket and WIPAC light clusters

A variable PWM pulse frequency ranging from 10 kHz to 50 kHz assures perfect silent operation

Modifications were required to the cab roofs to allow for tighter clearances which involved removing the protruding roof section and placing a new rainstrip higher on the roof

103 'Merlin' Maroon (as delivered) DCC_Working Interior Lighting as well as occupying sidingsHaving 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