CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 2 Livery_Transpennine the first of several hundred

the first of several hundred locomotives of a type that would revolutionise Railfreight across the UK (and Europe)

394829 (Traffic Red)

the NIR Class 101 (DL) locomotives were designed to run in a push/pull configuration

leaving the works on 23 April 1953

Carrying several presentation liveries

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 2 Livery_Transpennine the first of several hundredIn 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