Ready to Run Model Irish Railway Wagons
PREVIOUS WAGONS



Photo Patrick Davey
Great Northern Railway of Ireland Bagged Cement Van N0.21, repeated in 2009 as No.2229 and now offered in early CIE livery. The wagon which started it all!

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.


2007


Photo Dapol
Great Northern Railway of Ireland
Open Coal Wagon No. 3164
2007


Photo Dapol
Great Northern Railway of Ireland
Open Coal Wagon No.5558

2008


Photo Dapol
Great Northern Railway of Ireland Container Truck No.1997 with Furniture Container No.1, later repeated as No.4287 with Container No.4.
2008


Photo Patrick Davey
East Downshire Steamship Company Limited 10 ton Coal Wagon No.14, later repeated as No.2 with full strapping highlighted.
2007



Photo Chris James

Sligo Leitrim and Northern Counties RailwayCattle wagon No.158, which was modelled complete with end numbers, as per prototype. A similar wagon, No.110, is still available.
2008





Courtesy Dapol


This van as an ex-LMS(NCC) 12 ton van from the 2400 series. A hundred of these LMS vans were imported from the parent company to replace wagons lost during World War 2, when the NCC's York Road headquarters was heavily damaged by air raids.


Ours was offered in Ulster Transport Authority livery, which they bore after the nationalisation of the NCC in 1948. Being a fitted van, it is in a distinctive livery to highlight this fact. Photos (and memory!) show the livery these vans carried as near-orange and we have tried to replicate this. In fact, most were very dirty in their latter days ans if this van sells well, a weathered version might be offered later.  


They were seen in goods trains on UTA and CIE lines until about 1965, when UTA goods traffic largely ceased. 


Now repeated in 2011 as No.2459.




Photo Courtesy Dapol Ltd


In the early 1960s, the UTA renewed about 300 wagons, at the Adelaide, Belfast Wagon Works (part of the Loco shed complex). Some of these wagons were intended for use on the contract to supply coal to Courtauld's at Carrickfergus. They were separately numbered in a "C" series, of which C85 is one.


Yes, the strapping really was brown! A very colourful model and Dapol have got the red livery very close to how I remember it. Fitted with Dapol's new, smaller couplings.


These wagons were to be seen all over the UTA's railways and on cross-border goods trains until 1965, so they will have been hauled by all of CIE's early diesels, up to and including the General Motors B (141) Class.


2010