{"id":21039,"date":"2018-04-29T05:28:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:35:23","slug":"class-201-retrospective-northern-irish-railways-8208-everywhere-but-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/class-201-retrospective-northern-irish-railways-8208-everywhere-but-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 201 Retrospective: Northern Irish Railways 8208 Everywhere but the Enterprise."},"content":{"rendered":"

Next up for my 20 years in Ireland\/class 201 numerical retrospective is old 208\/8208: to be different, I\u2019m posting views of 8208 (one of two Class 201s owned by NIR for Enterprise service) working a variety of trains but not the Enterprise!<\/p>\n

Originally, the locomotive was number 208, and it had been painted in an attractive NIR blue livery, similar to the 111-class diesels.<\/p>\n

I never saw it in blue.<\/p>\n

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208 as I first saw it; a thumbnail scan from a slide I made in 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Working a Dublin-Waterford train at Athy in July 2003, shortly after it was renumbered 8208.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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<\/em> For few years 8208 worked in a unusual variation of the Enterprise livery, as pictured here on an RPSI excursion near Clonsilla on the Sligo line in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NIR 8208 in the latest Enterprise livery working Irish Rail’s IWT liner from Ballina at Memorial Road in Dublin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Next up for my 20 years in Ireland\/class 201 numerical retrospective is old 208\/8208: to be different, I\u2019m posting views of 8208 (one of two Class 201s owned by NIR for Enterprise service) working a variety of trains but not the Enterprise! Originally, the locomotive was number 208, and it had been painted in an … Continue reading Class 201 Retrospective: Northern Irish Railways 8208 Everywhere but the Enterprise.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4588,4537,2896,897,2377,21,1620,1619],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NIR_8208_w_Mk3s_at_Athy_20July2003_Brian-Solomon_338011.jpg?fit=1771%2C1128","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21040,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions\/21040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}