CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - 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

Pack N: The Throckley Coal Company - Formed in 1867

Rumoured to be the first of a series of Class 50s renamed after famous people

it was renumbered 37256 two years later and remained on the WR at Bristol Bath Road from 1983 until rebuilt by Crewe as 37678 in 1987

The new power station

Thus the typical hum is a thing of the past

This saw it mostly outbased at Buxton in the Peak District to haul aggregates

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

Freight Brown / Bauxite

which included extensive reworking to the nose ends with WIPAC light clusters

A variable PWM pulse frequency ranging from 10 kHz to 50 kHz assures perfect silent operation

Works number 3810 was completed in 1954 and sold directly to the NCB

Brake blocks on bogies in line with wheels