CIE Bulk Cement Wagon - Ivory - Pack 3Introduced in seven batches between 1964 and 1972, a total of 150 of these two axle wagons were built by Cras Iompair ireann (CI) to convey bulk loads of cement from Irish Cements plants at Drogheda in County Louth, Castlemungret in County Limerick and Platin in County Meath to distribution points throughout the CI Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways networks. Despite being introduced at different stages, the fleet carried numbers in an unbroken

‘Wilbert’ as we have come to know him

High Performance traction features

Unpainted HYA with GBRf Coal branding

leaving the works on 23 April 1953

Fledgling preservation schemes were face with having to purchase either industrial or scrapyard condition locomotives so the opportunity to purchase a working mainline locomotive was not passed up

and was even a popular choice for railtour duties which took it to locations such as the then unfamiliar London Euston as well as the Great Eastern Main Line to Harwich Town

Integrated microcontroller firmware can be updated automatically via the ECoS central station

Following periods at Old Oak Common and Wellington it was withdrawn from service in 1959

most curiously

both cabs survive

the latter at the No

Limited production run