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CIÉ Magnesite wagons

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GAUGE 4mm:1ft

1970-1982

ERA

More wagons for the A Class locomotive

ANNOUNCED at the start of February 2022, models of CIÉ magnesite hopper wagons have arrived promptly, much to the delight of Irish railway modellers. They are the perfect wagon for IRM’s A Class locomotive models which powered the daily trains of 12 to 22 wagons of processed magnesite between 1970 and 1982.

Quigley & Co., an international company which specialised in refractory products, saw the potential of an Irish refractory brick operation based in Tivoli, near Cork and a coastal site in Ballinacourty, Co. Waterford which was ideally located

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