CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 2 Livery_Railfreight Pre-TOPS livery

Pre-TOPS livery

20 ton Diagram P7

for use at the East Cannock Colliery in Staffordshire

as a stop-gap measure

before being renumbered as 7027 under the LNER

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 2 Livery_Railfreight Pre-TOPS liveryIn 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