CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 3In 1950 the board of Cors Iompair ireann (CI) appointed Oliver Bulleid as its Chief Mechanical Engineer. Bulleid, renowned as designer of the distinctive Merchant Navy and Light Pacific locomotives during his tenure with the Southern Railway in England, did not have an opportunity to pursue his legendary innovativeness to the same extent in Ireland, but his arrival nonetheless heralded a period of modernisation and standardisation. Apart from

with SR Standard Brown sole bar and black ironwork

pantograph and PowerPack

22534 B1 MSO

It was disposed of at EMR Kingsbury in February 2008

37140 was a late survivor in BR blue

BR Lined Black with Early Crest

DRS Simplified Compass livery

A dwindling number soldiered on into the late 1970s and early 1980s

it retained its Metals brandings right to the final curtain in December 1998

‘First’ branding was then replaced by ‘Premier’ branding on the A1 DRBFO cars

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Bogie Coil V and Bogie Strip Coil K wagons