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That one was announced last year some stage. I'm looking forward to it. Modern era so it'll go well with my Spoil wagons.

Is that the Northcord one?

If "water" is the clue, it's obviously the B&I Ferry from the eighties, duh. So for somebody not on FB, basically forget about getting Irish buses?

How does one buy Derek's buses, or even find out what's available?

With WarBonnet's cryptic post about a forthcoming announcement being a little left field, the brain starts wondering just how far? Passenger stock? Mk3's? 22000's? CAF Mk4's? Enterprise stock? Or how about diecast model buses??? Some KC's, KD's and CitySwift B10B's? Seems like any run of Irish buses by anybody sells out very quickly, so maybe it's not as empty an idea as it sounds.

Just to note, when sorting the 121's on the IRM site from Newest to Oldest, it doesn't seem to sort them in the correct order. Works perfectly for the A Class.

You have a hundred of them? Fancy selling one or is it a job lot only?!!!

Looking for IRM Cement Bubble Pack A. Must be brand new in box, and I'm happy to pay slightly over the original asking price. It's the only pack of Bubbles missing from my collection.

My understanding was that the plough vans were IRM almost doing us, the community, a favour. I bought some just to support IRM, even though I have only three ballast wagons to run with them. Missed out on the ballast wagons first time around. IRM have been pretty clear on the forum about the cost, availability and demand of stuff which would be in small runs, like the plough vans, the brake vans, the weed-spray van, as they have with what's on the way, ie the "Project 42" thread. We can always hope for a high spec van at some stage in the future, but the plough van run kind of proves the point on limited runs. They're still available both from IRM and from Marks Models. You can't have another non-profit run when the last one hasn't even sold out yet. I'm delighted to see the weedspray train released asis, and with the hints and possibilities for what lies ahead. Thank you for what you guys do!

Is the coach the same as the one that's missing from the RPSI Cravens sets?

Maybe 2021 or 2022 will bring "Project 20" !

Yes!!!!!

Would those tanks happen to be the same as those on the the oil wagons, for a future release???

I really like the roving camera work on the last few videos. What an exceptional layout! Just missing 234 in tippex IE livery, hint hint.

This is something that has occurred to me lately. I'd like to be able to model Irish Rail as things are today. I have some wonderful Spoil Wagons and Tara Mines wagons, but no passenger stock at all, no 22000's, no CAF Mk4's, no Enterprise coaches, nothing. On top of that, sourcing locos to haul them was very difficult. No 071's available, and the 201's were hard to find and cost above average. I'm not going to give up, and will probably settle for some BR Mk4 repaints with no DVT, along with some 071 repaints in pre-2015 condition, but deep down, that won't truly satisfy me.

Plus five!

The first time I placed a 141 on the track, a second-hand find from Hattons, it started rolling away itself, as I hadn't set the controller exactly at Zero. It was just wow.

First world problems indeed, but without dreams, what's the point? I assume that your layout is DCC, rather than DC. On DC, the 141/181's are the smoothest, most responsive locos that I have ever seen, hence the desire to see that performance in the next batch of 071's.

So the dream of an 071 re-run with 141/181 quality running and post-2015 variants available becomes a living nightmare, knowing that it'll never happen?

So the spray train as we know it is already gone?

Are IE in the process of replacing the weedkiller train with an MPV? If not, what do they use the MPV for?

Are you my Dad, by any chance? That's OK, I must be a newborn.

Are you two hundred years old, by any chance?

Rail has a far higher profile... Is that a pun? As an under-sixty, at least on paper, I'd agree that the IR to IE changeover seems to be the era that interests many enthusiasts of my age. My thinking at the moment is that the nostalgia isn't fixed to a particular era, though. What seems new and uninteresting today will not necessarily seem so twenty or thirty years from now, hence my desire to be able to run a 2020 layout. In twenty or thirty years time, Noel may be complaining about hydrogen powered flying DART's, and reminiscing on how lovely it was to have ICR's to marshall in a yard instead of floating around in the boring old sky. Interesting to read what Iarnrod and Railer say about the 071's and the 111's - that even those models don't accurately reflect the operations of today due to changes that have occured. Even if the grey 071's and the NIR 111's WEREN'T sold out and unavailable, it would be hard accurately model 2020.

Thank you!