CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 2 Livery_West Coast Railways HYA 37 70 6955 339-9

HYA  37 70 6955 339-9

BR green with full yellow ends (late 1960s)

Please note: As there are no preserved Class 30’s with the mirlees engine

it lost its Hercules name in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer Sir Edward Elgar – who had no connection with Brunel’s famous railway

All windows still in place

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 2 Livery_West Coast Railways HYA 37 70 6955 339-9In 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