Ready to Run Model Irish Railway Wagons

 

Great Northern Railway of Ireland Wagons


16 Ton Van for Bagged Cement Traffic - No. 2229


                                                                                                                                      Photo Courtesy Dapol Ltd

Our model represents one of the vans specially constructed for bagged cement traffic from the cement factory at Drogheda. It was built at Dundalk to Diagram 145A and joined the Company’s stock in 1956.

The vans were to be seen all over the GNR system, on CIE and the SL&NCR. At the dissolution of the GNR in 1958, all went to CIE, who simply added the suffix “N” to the GNR number.

They were unusually large for Ireland at that time – most other vans were of 10 tons capacity. Also, unusually for Ireland, the handbrake acted on both axles. So for once, a British outline model is very close to the Irish prototype. Our model comes with disc wheels, like the original van.

A total of 138 of these wagons were built between 1954 and 1956 and the modeller can easily represent another wagon in this series by dabbing out the first "2", as no.229 was another member of the series! 

This wagon is a limited edition of 155 items.

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                 Container Truck No.4287

            with Furniture Container No.4




The GNR(I) carried much container traffic, including BR containers brought across the Irish Sea on one of the many ferries. However, it was possibly unique in building up a major traffic in bread, carried in cube-shaped containers, typically carried two to a flat container track. About six bakeries distributed their bread around the North of Ireland by the method.


Container Truck for Bread Containers - No. 4287: This model represents one of the trucks specially constructed for this traffic. The thrifty GN produced it at Dundalk, from a covered wagon, to Diagram No.30 and it joined the Company’s stock in 1954. It was intended to be run on passenger or goods trains, so being a ‘fitted’ truck carried the bauxite livery, as does our model. No.4287 carried different lettering to No.1997, seen above.

They were to be seen on the GNR system in the North of Ireland on bread traffic, although some strayed further south on more normal container traffic – remember those BR containers (and a few CIE ones).

It comes with GNR(I) Furniture Container - No. 4. This model represents a container specially constructed for furniture removals. Like the prototype, it has the lettering “GNR No.4” on the end doors – visible in the photograph.

There is photographic evidence that two such containers existed – Nos. 1 and 4. Just how many there actually were is uncertain and the subject of ongoing investigation – especially just what containers Nos 2 and 3 were!

They were to be seen on the GNR system although they probably strayed all over Ireland if that is where the removal was going!  A photograph shows No.1 at Ballyshannon being unloaded (see “Railways in Ulster’s Lakeland” (page 51) by Anthony Burgess (Colourpoint, 2005). Tom Ferris’s “Irish Railways in Colour – a Second Glance” (page 15) shows both after the dissolution of the GNR at Broadstone in Dublin.


LIMITED EDITION OF  136 WAGONS


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