CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 1 ERA_BR Sectorisation

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 1 ERA_BR SectorisationIn 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 bodyside windows still in situ

like the majority of locomotives to gain this livery 37258 quickly swapped it for the 'Dutch' variant

L94 was seen working frequently with classmate 9600

Acquired as part of the mass transfer of Class 37/4s from DB Schenker to Direct Rail Services in 2011

Standard sleeper coach 15308

37402 was provided with a large Eastfield ‘westie’ logo in the classic position

empty/loaded changeover levers and above solebar mounted brake distributor* CDA correctly features large end air cylinder and above solebar mounted brake distributor

Surviving in much the same condition for a decade

The First Opens

13T - Flat Hood - Fitted - 1960 to 1972 - Pack D

* Sprung metal buffers and dummy instanter couplings

including air pipes