NIR Mk.2c SO 828 NIR Maroon/Blue Subclass_37/4 The ultra violet spotlights –

The ultra violet spotlights – of various designs over time – gave it the nickname ‘scooter’ and were deployed when running with the Structure Gauging Train

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BR Class 50 - Hanson+Hall/Rail Adventure - 50008 'Thunderer' - DCC Sound Fitted

Initially subsisting on a diet of trains between Dollands Moor and North London over the ‘classic’ third rail route - once cleared by Railtrack - it joined English Welsh & Scottish Railway on its takeover of Railfreight Distribution in November 1997 and by the end of the decade the dual-voltage locomotive could be found with ‘pan’ up working the full length of the West Coast Main Line between Mossend and Wembley

NIR Mk.2c SO 828 NIR Maroon/Blue Subclass_37/4 The ultra violet spotlights –Built 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