CIE LB Flat Wagon - Flying Snail/Roundel - Pack 2 British Steel set at correct colour temperature

set at correct colour temperature

One of 250 near identical locomotives

Currently hired to Rail Operations Group to cover for overhauls to their existing fleet of Class 37s

based at the Derby RTC

CIE LB Flat Wagon - Flying Snail/Roundel - Pack 2 British Steel set at correct colour temperatureAs CI continued its programme of rolling stock renewal under the tenure of Oliver Bulleid, Inchicore Works turned its attention to the construction of a humble but useful flat wagon with a 12 ton capacity. Utilising a version of Bulleids patented triangulated chassis developed as the basis for a variety of CI wagons, a total of 79 were turned out between March and April 1958. Later, a number of withdrawn H Vans were repurposed as flat wagons for the