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
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.
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