NIR Mk.2b FO 801 NIR Maroon/Blue NIR 101 / DL Class - Hunslet the eight-car rake was split

the eight-car rake was split into two sets of four

D1479 pattern

to Order P57

With competition from English Electric Type 3s the uprated 1

infrastructure

NIR Mk.2b FO 801 NIR Maroon/Blue NIR 101 / DL Class - Hunslet the eight-car rake was splitBuilt at Litchurch Lane, Derby, in 1970, eight examples were constructed for Northern Ireland Railways for its new Enterprise service between Belfast and Dublin. This landmark service featured a range of bespoke vehicles that were quite unlike anything then in operation in Irelandor indeed on British Raildespite being a derivative of a BR design. The eight Mk. 2b coaches acquired by the newly formed Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) included several new