"The Flying Snail" Logo 1944–1964. Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) was formed as a private company by the Transport Act 1944 and incorporated the Great Southern Railways Company and Dublin United Transport Company, adopting the logo of …

Bus Éireann which operates provincial bus services, Expressway and city bus services in Cork, Limerick and Galway. Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) which operates rail services, including the cross-border Enterprise services operated jointly with Northern Ireland Railways.

C.I.É Buses. 2,457 likes · 2,921 talking about this. We Are A Historical Photographic Page For C.I.É.,Bus Éireann & Dublin Bus Vehicles Past And Present.

Bus Átha Claith is responsible for the Dublin area bus services while Bus Éireann looks after the rest. Irish Rail, with its unusual non Gaelic title, became responsible for all the rail services within the Republic. A new logo was chosen with the initials IR resembling railway tracks.

In 1987 it became the parent company for Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann. Add anything to this group with a Córas Iompair Éireann logo on it. From preserved CIÉ buses to timetables or pamphlets.

CIÉ city-bus R340 at Burgh Quay, Dublin, working route 34 during August 1960. Photo: Patrick J Flanagan – Irish Railway Record Society.

Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ), was founded on 1st January 1945 under the Transport Act 1944. It united the Great Southern Railways (GSR) and the Dublin United Tramway Company (DUTC). The GSR operated rail, bus and lorry services.

The CIE logo (wheel of eight segments) was replaced by the IE logo on the black part of the loco. On coaches the words InterCity are shown in large white on the lower brown section. Craven coaches and ex-BR MkI generator vans continued in CIE black, white and golden brown.