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.

Limited edition of 150 wagons

Now available.

Stock 75 wagons

£9.75                €11.25