CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 3 Freight Type_Fuel Tank Visually 66001 looked more striking

Visually 66001 looked more striking owing to its red grilles which were later changed to black

The family were in agreement that it would be a wonderful idea so discussions with the DFR society then started

As well as the distinctive roof doors and operating equipment

One of just three Deltics to never receive plated headcode boxes

including:

CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Flying Snail - Pack 3 Freight Type_Fuel Tank Visually 66001 looked more strikingIn 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