mk2s Belfast

[201bhoy]

Does anyone know when the last time the IE mark 2s were in Belfast apart from like going to Whitehead to get done up for RPSI was? And when they served as the enterprise, did the 201s or 071s run around at Central, or did they still go to York Road? Any pics of them up here in recent years would be excellent!

[UP6936]

During the late 90s mk2s worked the IE enterprise during the line relay. I would imagine the 071 ran around in central

[Railer]

I think 2006 or 2007 was the last time Mk2Ds went to Belfast to fill in for a failed DD set. The Mk2s would have been taken off the early morning Sligo service ex Connolly and the spare Cravens set at Connolly sent to Sligo instead.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

I don't remember them running round at Central. Not to say they didn't do it I just don't remember ever seeing them do it. Did Mk3's ever work the Enterprise?

[73.River.Roe.]

I remember working at oxford street bus depot and watching the GM,s pull coaches out onto the bangor line at the River Lagan bridge and running round the coaches there and then going back into platform 2 after the run round.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

I remember working at oxford street bus depot and watching the GM,s pull coaches out onto the bangor line at the River Lagan bridge and running round the coaches there and then going back into platform 2 after the run round.

 

 

Agreed but I don't ever remember seeing them leaving the coaches at the platform and running around. I could be wrong.

[73.River.Roe.]

No they didn't leave the coaches at the platform they shunted them out to the bridge over the river lagan and the GM,s run round them out there and hauled them back into platform 2.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

No they didn't leave the coaches at the platform they shunted them out to the bridge over the river lagan and the GM,s run round them out there and hauled them back into platform 2.

 

Any idea why they chose to run around the coaches out there instead of in the station

[73.River.Roe.]

yeah free up a platform and the track layout made it easier to do... plus coaches and GM could sit out there for 20 mins or so.

[201bhoy]

yeah free up a platform and the track layout made it easier to do... plus coaches and GM could sit out there for 20 mins or so.

 

Would that not have created a bottleneck though if there were only two tracks, one for each direction?

[73.River.Roe.]

Not really as you only had bangor trains coming and going and not that many during that era. cross harbour rail bridge was not built then.

[Hunslet 102]

Trains to Bangor were every half hourly back then,so the operation did not impact on the normal services.The final Enterprise service each day would then head to Central Services for cleaning etc.