CIE LB Flat Wagon - Flying Snail/Roundel - Pack 2 British Steel Swindon (for British Leyland)

Swindon (for British Leyland)

One of 250 near identical locomotives

in two body styles

Still retaining the LT “cut cab” but having lost the trip cock brackets

and was recorded in this livery variation - still with D-prefixed number - in the second half of 1969

CIE LB Flat Wagon - Flying Snail/Roundel - Pack 2 British Steel Swindon (for British Leyland)As 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 Later, a number of withdrawn H Vans were repurposed as flat wagons for the