Ready to Run Model Irish Railway Wagons

Latest News 30 July 2010:


All things come to he who waits.........



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News


Not the engine -look at the rear of the train! The GNR(I) 20 ton brake van is nearly here! See 'GNR(I) wagons' for full details.


Fourth bakery container added to range - 'WINDSOR', as seen above on my unfitted conflat. 


See 'GNR(I) Wagons' for full details.



Our wagons now stocked by Belfast Model Shop


You can now buy my wagons at The Model Shop in Belfast,

38 Queen Street, Belfast, BT1 6EF
Opening Times 9:30 am (9.00 am on Sat) to 5:30pm

Visit their website at

 

http://www.modelshopbelfast.com/  

 

IF YOU'RE ORDERING BY POST .......

May I make a little suggestion? If you are ordering my three new wagons, apart from the fact that I will give a discount on the postage anyway, I will post a fourth wagon at no extra postal cost. You see, one of my packing boxes was chosen for four wagons! Tell me what you want and I will quote you!


 

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! 

 

I haven't forgotten the GNR brake van - that's intended to be next from my modeller! And after that I hope to get him to make other useful GNR wagons, and a few CIE ones.

 

Next commissioned wagon will be a John Milligen private owner coal wagon, based on Dapol's new 9ft wheelbase five plank wagon.

 

And the Raleigh Cycles GNR(I) furniture container for those conflats!

 

 

Who are we?

 

Now, for new viewers, the original introduction from 2008, so you know just who Provincial Wagons is!

 

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.