Ready to Run wagons

Further runs of this popular wagon in the CIE colours of the late 1960s and 1970s

Our models represent a van specially constructed by the former Great Northern Railway of Ireland for bagged cement traffic from the Cement factory at Drogheda. These vans were built at Dundalk to Diagram 145A between 1954 and 1956. They were to be seen all over the GNR system.  

At the dissolution of the GNR in 1958, all of these wagons went to CIE, who simply added the suffix “N” to the GNR number and at first replaced the “GN” initials with a “Flying Snail”, replaced in turn by a “Broken Wheel” symbol as depicted on our models.

1069N is modelled as she was in the late 1970s when most goods vans were painted in an overall bauxite livery.

1681N carries the livery from the late 1960s and carries a two colour “Wheel”.

By this time these two wagons had lost the “Return to Drogehda” instruction carried by the vans in GNR days.

After the “Cement Bubble” wagons entered service, these vans saw use as standard covered vans and were to be seen on most CIE lines at least until the early 1980s.

£18 each Post Paid

GNR(I) Open Wagons KIT

Both four and the less usual six plank wagon. A correct width 3D printed body on a resin chassis.

£30

I have a very small number of these wagons available as Ready to Run, finished as above at £55 each, post paid.