CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Pack 2 Irish Coaches were a common sight throughout

were a common sight throughout the network

37402 was released from Derby wearing non-standard numbers and with its Stephen Middlemore nameplates still in their ‘Compass’ livery position below the radiator

Optional miniature snowploughs included

particularly on the steep climb out of Cork

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Pack 2 Irish Coaches were a common sight throughoutIn 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