10 May 2012
Fitted conflat sold out
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Next exhibition will at Carrick
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9 ton GNR Van ready June
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Beer Containers galore! (see GNR)
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SLNCR Cattle Wagon now ready
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CIE version of GNR 20 ton brake
(see CIE wagons)
NEWS: The GNR(I) Fitted conflat No.722 is now sold out and I am investigating a rerun or replacement. Watch this space for news. As a result, I shall be selling beer containers on their own for the time being. We sold out of those as well at Bangor and I have another supply on the way - see GNR wagons.
Expected June
Prototype GNR(I) 9 ton van as seen by some of you at Bangor. This version has yet to receive the lengthened chassis and the final version of the roof! A good replica of the 700-odd vans of this type. We'll be offering lots of different numbers. Guide price £26.50. Orders taken now and fulfilled in order of receipt. Production has now begun for June deliveries.
Orders taken now will be fulfilled at a price not exceeding the guide price.
Sligo Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway 6 ton cattle wagon
This is a close cousin of my GNR(I) cattle wagon, but with slightly different planking and roof. Add variety to your cattle special! Because the SLNCR existed to export cattle from the Midlands of Ireland via Derry and Belfast, these wagons would have been seen on the GNR quite commonly and photographs exist of them in trains with standard GN wagons.
Another nice handmade model from Michael Rayner.
Price for a single wagon £28.50 €33
for three wagons £81.00 €95
EXHIBITIONS: David White and Richard McLachlan wish to thank those who came by at Bangor. As you can see above, we sold out of yet another wagon!
NEW DATE: I will personally be at the Carrickfergus exhibition of the Ulster Model Railway Club to be held in the Town Hall on 25 and 26 August.
Later in the year, I hope to complete my collection of bakery containers with the Derry bakeries. I've got the details now!
Old news - but a useful reminder, now being widely used -
I have now got my Euro Account at the Ulster Bank in Monagahan up and running. See "ordering from us" for full details - no more Paypal surcharges!
Who are we?
Now, for new viewers, the original introduction from
2008, so you know just what Provincial Wagons is about! Since then, I have produced and sold over 2,000 wagons, which are running on layouts as far apart as Ireland, Norway, Canada and New Zealand.
My name is Leslie McAllister and I hope over time to be worthy of my chosen trading name Provincial Wagons, by producing replicas of wagons from the railways of all four of Ireland’s provinces. Our first wagons were be from Leinster and Ulster, the provinces through which the Great Northern Railway of Ireland ran.
While there are a number of model Irish locomotives available, there is very little for them to pull! To date, a number of people have approached the problem with wagon and coach kits. There are also a number of ready-to-run passenger vehicles. Not everyone has the skill to build a whitemetal or brass kit, so Provincial Wagons has looked at other ways to produce model wagons to pull behind the locomotives which many of us have collected over the years.
A chance meeting with Martin Dean, late proprietor of Wessex Wagons, who just happens to be an enthusiast for the railways of the Emerald Isle, encouraged me to produce some Irish outline wagons using the “specially commissioned wagon” route.
Another name must be mentioned - David White. He had been looking at the possibility of commissioning exact scale models of Irish wagons, but discovered that the set-up costs were pretty prohibitive, so that must wait! He has been instrumental in encouraging me to get started on this venture and continues to give enthusiastic advice and input.
We realise that simply painting British wagons in Irish colours is not good enough for many modellers, but we hope that our wagons will allow others to make a start in Irish modelling, rather than not start at all because it’s all a bit too hard! The Provincial Wagons range of Irish Goods wagons will now allow you to make that start into Irish railway modeling more easily.
Provincial Wagons has been created because of my interest in Irish Railways. This grew from railway modelling activities in my ‘teens. When a railway society was formed at my school, I joined to gain an insight into “the real thing”. My interest in railways blossomed from there and my travels in search of working steam have taken me to about 25 countries. (I have detailed logs to prove it!). I have served twenty years on the RPSI’s council and am currently the publications officer for the Irish Railway Record Society in London. Although my greatest love is the steam engine, I am first and foremost a railway enthusiast, so my model collection includes a very large number of diesels and electrics (and steam, of course!) from countries for which I have a particular affection. My first Irish models were two railcar sets in Great Northern colours. The steam engines, built from Terry McDermott’s excellent kits followed. Now, I want wagons to pull behind them and while there are kits of some wagons, the time to get them built and the cost encouraged me to look at other ways to populate my trains!
Provincial Wagons has commissioned Dapol to create some Irish wagons, which will be sold as certificated limited editions with around a hundred of each wagon being offered. The wagons will have to be "OO" gauge, because they are based on existing British "OO" scale models. All of the wagons are the subject of much research to get the livery and lettering as close to the real Irish Railways thing as is reasonably possible. Each wagon will include some description of building dates (where known), purpose and if possible, its fate! Other wagons are in the pipeline. Watch this site for news or register your interest by sending your e-mail address to us at news@provincialwagons.com.