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001 Class locomotive was manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers at their Dukinfield Works in Manchester.
The 001 Class locomotive was the backbone of mainline passenger and freight train services on the Irish railway network for forty years from 1955 until the mid-1990s when they were replaced by the new 201 Class.
Initially they were fitted with eight-cylinder two-stroke, port-controlled Crossley engines. These were a loop scavenge type, which utilised a patented principle that recycled the normally wasted exhaust-pressure pulse to boost charge air in the cylinder. They produced 896*kW (1200*hp) at 625 rpm and could do 120*km/h (75*mph). The original sandboxes, which were utilised to improve traction with the rail, were removed after a few years.
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