103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red ArcHaving 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 LokSound 5 decoder can reproduce up to 10 channels simultaneously

Small ICI lettering

fully sprung scale buffers

and then West Cannock

accurate scale model

P7 Hopper - 1904-1910 Pre-Grouping: NER Grey - Triple Pack

DRSL 92779

These remained in service on the private railway with 16 and 21-ton former BR stock until the mid-1990s

Freightliner were the second operating company to enter the class 66 game with the first of their locomotives arriving in 1999

footplate & interior detail

Two types of end stanchion tooled: NER wooden or LNER metal ‘T’ bar type from 1925 onwards

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