CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 1In 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

metal pin jaw coupling and wire/etch handbrake levers

Late Crest

even more dramatic was the addition of five large spotlight brackets (two on the lower cab front and three on the cab roof) and a forward facing camera in the plated nose door at the No

PR26505 (ladder)

eventually ending up with NEI-Clarke Chapman at their Horseley Bridge works and has survived into preservation

2c to gain the MTA red stripe embellishment on its standard blue/grey livery

37421 was one of four Class 37s that was purchased by Colas Rail in 2013 for a return to the main line

wooden cab roof was retained

D9020 – ‘Nimbus’

the first of several hundred locomotives of a type that would revolutionise Railfreight across the UK (and Europe)

cement and the iconic ICI limestone trains

Gearing arranged so locomotive can achieve scale top speed