Class 73 - GBRf (Early) - 73962 Dick Mabbutt - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rugby Cement With Corás Iompair Éireann (CIÉ)

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

HYA  371074

Ex-splitbox nose with plated door and WIPAC light clusters

now fully finished in its 1980s paint scheme complete with Highland ‘stag’ logo and its classic An Comunn Gaidhealach name (after the organisation that promotes the use of Scottish Gaelic) that it wore between October 1986 and February 1991

separately applied

Class 73 - GBRf (Early) - 73962 Dick Mabbutt - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rugby Cement With Corás Iompair Éireann (CIÉ)73962 GBRf, Early This loco started life as E6032 and entered service in May 1966. TOPS renumbering saw it become 73125 and then finally 73204 when it became part of the Gatwick express fleet. 73962 was unveiled to the (almost) public at the Wabtec Brush open day in August 2014 carrying a one off all over GBRF blue livery. It was named Dick Mabbutt in a Ceremony in memory of respected Brush Engineer of 40 years Richard Mabbutt who passed away