101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Locomotive Class_GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 37420 was the penultimate member

37420 was the penultimate member of the Inverness ‘eight’

Porterbrook purple

Engine bay lighting

Optional miniature snowploughs included

NEM narrow tension lock couplers at correct height

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Locomotive Class_GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 37420 was the penultimate memberHaving 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