CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 2 Livery_Transpennine with green roof and green/grey

with green roof and green/grey bodyside ‘swooshes’ since delivery

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

Following unloading and acceptance it worked its first train of HYA’s on the 13th November

brake equipment

Carrying several presentation liveries

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 2 Livery_Transpennine with green roof and green/greyIn 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