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  1. On 1/3/2024 at 4:32 PM, DoctorPan said:

    Working folk don't care about catering compared to seating and plug availability. I can't expense 1st class tickets and I could expense food as a per diem, there's far more appealing options then train catering, trolley or galley form. 

    When I was commuting long distance my peers view was why would I want to eat on the train? I just want to get from A to B reliably. And from my peers and colleagues who still commute on the Cork line, they much prefer ending on the ICR diagrams than the MK4s ones even for the longer distance, the ICR better ride quality make for a far more attractive user experience.

    just to add to this spent 3 years travelling mallow to cork every day for college which varied between mk4s, ICRs and 2600s where all my mates who were non enthusiasts all much preferred the ICRs something as simple as there being usb ports to charge from largely made a difference in their eyes as apparently bringing a wall block around in 2019 was outdated

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  2. 13 minutes ago, Dempsey said:

    Dos anyone know the story behind the black and silver 201? Is it a test livery? 

    I think an element of it aswell was that the new IE logo had a tri colour in it so to avoid any possible conflicts

  3. 15 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

    Ill look for any scraps of my communion money left over! 

    As another 20 year old think it's gonna be into the conformation money at this stage 

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  4. On 26/2/2021 at 10:35 AM, Railer said:

    Yeah, just relisted.

    Last one was up for 2 days but there was no views on it. Think its my phone app listing that are not working.

    which listing are you accepting for it as from what I understand you are only selling one grey 071

  5. would avoid that 100% reeks of a scam

    1 minute ago, Alan564017 said:

    lads, i just got this e-mail, are IRM using An Post to deliver the ballast bundles.

    Its a bit ambiguous, it says it could not be delivery on the 08.12.2020 but the scheduled delivery time is between the 9th and the 12th.

    It looks for a credit card payment of €1.00, before I do this I just want to make sure its legit, never seen this before. 

    The e-mail address is came from is 'An Post <consumerline@comreg.ie>'

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    would avoid that 100% reeks of a scam and the ballasts are shipping from Dublin so customs duty wouldn't apply
     

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    3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

     

    You said that when the next Irish loco is released, it will cost €400 a pop, and will likely only sell 100 units of each livery.

    That's what that meant.

    But, now I'm confused.

    Are you saying that for the next Irish loco after the A, they will have a massive price and won't sell well?

    Or that if they have a reasonable price, they will sell like the A's and a larger batch should be run to allow the market dynamics to do work naturally?

    Sorry, that bit wasn't clear to me.

     

    I believe he means a re released loco as you would struggle to sell as many so would have to do a smaller production run which inevitably would increase the price per unit. Small production runs are usually an inconvenience for the manufacturer and comes with a higher cost

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  7. 18 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

    The A class were retired 25 years ago, so comparing A Classes to 071's is like comparing apples to oranges.

    That is quite true like they were retired before I was born I'll still be purchasing A39r (as its preserved) and I would say in comparing A class to 071 someone say 20 years my senior they would've seen an A class on the network in the same manner that I currently see the 071s running so would sell well on nostalgic grounds which is rather prevelent amongst layouts I've seen on this forum

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    4 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

    I respectfully disagree.

    The A class are not retailing at €400 each, and there are more than 100 units being produced.

    The Irish market is growing, not contracting, and is not the same creature that it was ten years ago.

    IRM have contributed massively to this growth, and are probably responsible for the large surge in sales of MM 071's this year, which are now all but unavailable.

    I reckon that in two years time, or less, demand for an Irish loco other than the A will drive second-hand prices to even more insane levels if one is not announced or at least speculated about.

    The A class is a complete new tooling miles above the standard of anything else you could get your hands on so its able to sell more than 100 of each variant because there's demand where as with a 141/181 or 071 you won't sell as many even if there was a new tool like nobody is going to replace their entire fleet of mm 141/181 or 071s at quite a cost for marginal improvements on what are fantastic models. Like maybe some years down the line IRM will have grown the market to a point where there is enough demand 

    But at the end of the day Mr Murphy and the folks at IRM are intelligent people and would already have these re runs/new tools in their plans if it were to be financially viable to do so and if that time comes can't imagine they'd be too reluctant to produce something that would easily sell 500+ of each variant

     

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  9. 7 hours ago, RedRich said:

    Tara rakes were never 12 wagons only per rake. They have run with 10, 11, 6,  so the 5 IRM packs are prototypical correct.

    Rich,

    I suppose what I more so meant is for more modern era as pretty much any video I've seen taken of them over the past few years has been 12 to a rake and as I'm probably amongst the youngest of this community modelling interest is from around 2005 onwards with an emphasis around the last 5 years where 12 seems to be the standard

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