CIE Bulleid Bulk Grain Wagon - Grey (CIE Flying Snail era) - Pack 1 Bauxite Returns to service after repairs

Returns to service after repairs at Brush in GNER blue with gold logo

Another locomotive that was transported on the MV Fairload was GBRF’s 66724

which made its triumphant return to the main line in late 2015 after being acquired from a preservation career at the Chinnor & Princes Risborough in January 2014

Newton-le-Willows

There was a small ceremony where Wilbert Awdry unveiled the new name to his friends

CIE Bulleid Bulk Grain Wagon - Grey (CIE Flying Snail era) - Pack 1 Bauxite Returns to service after repairsCI embarked on a programme of rolling stock renewal beginning in the early 1950s, centring on Bulleids patented triangulated underframe construction. Among the more distinctive wagon types to appear was a series of bulk grain hoppers developed from the H Van design. These vehicles had a 12 ton capacity and augmented a fleet of earlier hopper wagons which had been constructed by the Great Southern Railways (GSR) in the 1930s and lasted in service until