{"product_id":"103-merlin-maroon-as-delivered-dcc-sound","title":"103 'Merlin' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving 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 designed to run in a push\/pull configuration, with a 270 ton 8-car set of BR Mk.2b stock, at a maximum speed of 80mph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ACCRG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53263990063491,"sku":"IRM1332-DCC","price":379.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3957\/0801\/files\/1322_web.jpg?v=1771241249","url":"https:\/\/www.accurascale.ie\/products\/103-merlin-maroon-as-delivered-dcc-sound","provider":"Accurascale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}