accomplishments. These included "armoured vehicles, armour-plated trains, experimental battery trains, turf-burning locomotives [and] munitions".

Whilst Inchicore did not initially build locomotives, by 1851, with the expertise by then accumulated, the GS&WR board felt this was now practicable and in 1852 the first locomotive, an 0-4-2 number 57, entered service.

In the 1920s and 1930s, in conjunction with James J. Drumm, engineers at the works created the

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