102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with SYP and Black Cab - DCC Sound Open Pre Orders renumbered to 29004 and named

renumbered to 29004 and named “Dave Meehan”

Acquired by the LNER in July 1946 and classified as J94

One of 250 near identical locomotives

a first for RTR O  Scale

including the boiler but was soon sidetracked as the railway had more pressing issues to finance and there was no immediate requirement for another operational Austerity

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with SYP and Black Cab - DCC Sound Open Pre Orders renumbered to 29004 and namedHaving 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