NIR Mk.2b FO 801 NIR Maroon/BlueBuilt 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

Height: 68 mm

Welded roof with plated boiler exhaust and small cab roof vent

Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal

Designed for easy conversion to EM and P4 gauges

having swapped North London for Gateshead via a spell at Finsbury Park

Works on DC Power

Cross braced ends

Accurate tumbleholme

Integrated Power & Booster

While the Class 31 fleet was in the process of being run down

As part of a restructuring

Interior Coach lighting with Stay-Alive Capacitor bank