GNRi Bogie van

[Moogie-69]

Would anyone have any photos of this bogie van ? Need to see the details of the doors.

 

[Mol_PMB]

This might be worth a look, though it doesn't match yours exactly:

504 Guinness Grain Van

[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, Moogie-69 said:

Would anyone have any photos of this bogie van ? Need to see the details of the doors.

 

The GNR vans were more or less those dimensions, and crucially the bogies look right, but the doors aren’t right, but the framework, and they would have had horizontal planking, not vertical (which was extremely rare in Ireland). 

[Jonathan Allen]

Or this, which shows the unconverted side: Guinness grain van - Whitehead | A bogie GNR(I) built grain … | Flickr

 

[Moogie-69]

I don't think it's a grain van as there are no chutes on the drawings.

@jhb171achill , was the framework on the doors on the outside,  I can't tell from the drawings, also to me the drawings seem to show vertical planking on the outside and horizontal on the inside,  or am I looking at it the wrong way round ?

Edited 3 hours ago by Moogie-69

[Mol_PMB]

Have you read through the history of the GNR bogie vans on the RPSI link I sent you? These bogie vans were modified over the years. There are also lots of photos. 

It is quite possible that none were built exactly to the design in your published drawing. Is there a date associated with the drawing that you could correlate with the batches mentioned in the RPSI history? 

[Moogie-69]

8 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Have you read through the history of the GNR bogie vans on the RPSI link I sent you? These bogie vans were modified over the years. There are also lots of photos. 

It is quite possible that none were built exactly to the design in your published drawing. Is there a date associated with the drawing that you could correlate with the batches mentioned in the RPSI history? 

From what I can find out the drawing is from the Locomotive railway carriage and wagon review magazine,  I haven't found what issue it was from yet, hoping it will give more information on when it was built and type designation.  To me the framework is too different from the Guinness van to be a modified version. 

Noel.

[Mol_PMB]

The doors on your drawing look like this:

 

There are plenty of old drawings that represent proposals that were never built. Or the design was adjusted before construction. 

[Moogie-69]

Mol_PMB,  thanks for that, I think i see what the door should look like now, the bottom section is a fold out ramp with the doors above. Just couldn't make it out in the drawings  but the photos helped greatly.

Edited 2 hours ago by Moogie-69

[jhb171achill]

2 hours ago, Moogie-69 said:

 

@jhb171achill , was the framework on the doors on the outside,  I can't tell from the drawings, also to me the drawings seem to show vertical planking on the outside and horizontal on the inside,  or am I looking at it the wrong way round ?

 

The outside was horizontal. Nit sure about the inside - if there was anything vertical at all it would have to have been internal in this case. 

[Mol_PMB]

I agree that the drawing you are using shows vertical planking on the outside and horizontal planking on the inside.

But I am still not convinced that your drawing matches anything that was actually built.

The real things had horizontal planking on the outside and vertical planking on the inside - again, see the large selection of photos on the RPSI website.