102 'Falcon' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon Weardale Railway and Peak Rail

Weardale Railway and Peak Rail amongst others

becoming a familiar sight in sidings and yards across the country

Die Cast Chassis for ideal weight

66769 has settled back into squadron service with other members of the GBRf class 66 family and can be seen working all manner of trains across the length and breadth of the country

seemed to be particularly popular and of the 18 built

102 'Falcon' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound Freight Type_Open Wagon Weardale Railway and Peak RailHaving 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