TIME TRAVELLER

YEARS AGO 50 ... JULY 1970

■ Ireland Railways unveiled its new 'Enterprise Express' train to the media on July 3. Two of the trio of BR Doncaster-built, English Electric-powered 101 Class Bo-Bos Nos. 102 and 101 'top and tailed' in multiple eight BREL Derby-built air-braked Mk.2b coaches from Belfast Great Victoria Street to Dublin Connolly and return. These locomotives and coaches entered revenue earning service on the route the following day. The new train indicated a change in Government policy that, for many years, hadNo. 102 and No. 103 This commemorated steam locomotives of the Great Northern Railway (I) that had carried the names when the 'Enterprise Express' was first introduced in 1947. The eight Mk.2s, which sported a new and attractive maroon, blue and white livery, comprised FO No. 801, DBSOs Nos. 811/2, SOs Nos. 821-4 and the unique Griddle Car No. 547.