CIÉ 12T Corrugated Open Wagon - Roundel - Beet Traffic - Pack 1In 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

Acquired by the LNER in July 1946 and classified as J94

D1479 pattern

it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life

It was initially outshopped from HNRC's workshops at Barrow Hill in BR blue

Crumlin in 1973

Double-riveted roof with large cab roof vent

Nose front sandbox hatches: plated over

With Corás Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) rolling out a series of freight stock throughout the 1950s-1960s based on a standardised triangulated underframe developed by its then-Chief Mechanical Engineer

A PowerPack can be connected to the LokPilot 5 to bridge dirty rail sections and is included in all accurascale locos as standard

Following a protracted overhaul

tapered or straight buffer housings where applicable

A pair of 3D printed figures custom scanned and produced to fit perfectly in the accurascale Manor