My regular customers know that I have a particularly soft spot for the Great Northern Railway of Ireland. After all, who wouldn’t like beautiful blue locomotives hauling mahogany coaches?

So, some of our GNR wagons. Starting with the first which we did and is usually the last in a goods train.

20 Ton Goods Brake van

Next came a very obvious need, as Ireland was / is a massive exporter of cattle.

Being a damp place, covered vans greatly outnumbered open wagons on Irish railways – remember that there is very little coal in Ireland, so no outflow from pits. So I produced several van types, starting with my RTR Bagged Cement vans(at least half a dozen variants, one seen above), then two versions of the RCH 10 Ton van (fitted and unfitted) and finally, FOR NOW, a 9 ton van.