CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 2

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CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 2In 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

Made in Great Britain

took over the hire of No

Accurate interiors with characteristic 'winged' headrests

Split headcode nose with plated headcode boxes

359 came from an earlier batch of ten locomotives built at Stratford in 1892 and was rebuilt in 1904 into the R24r Class

Running numbers:

‘skinhead’ No

Designed for easy 21mm gauage conversion

these older locomotives were well past their prime and London Transport began to look for replacements

especially with bell-armature motors - the typical "hum" is a thing of the past

By the mid 1960s

P7 Hopper - 1904-1910 Pre-Grouping: NER Grey - Triple Pack