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The CIE ballast hoppers becoming a most endangered species. Don' miss out on your last chance to grab them for a bargain price!

Several items now sold out, with a few more not far behind already. Wow! Thanks for all the orders so far everyone! Cheers! Fran

It's time for our famous Black Friday sale! Unlike piecemeal token sales items with other retailers, we offer you serious savings on in-stock items, and 2021 is our biggest sale yet. How about this for a deal? Save 30% on any ballast, gypsum or spoil wagon pack, and a whopping 40% if you buy two packs or more! We also have 30% off our remaining stocks of Murphy Models 121 Class locomotives! Our sale runs from 9am Friday November 26th until Monday, 29th at 6pm, or until stock runs out. Don't miss out, get these unbeatable bargains while you can! Check out all the deals right here: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/blackfriday

Hi @Barl, All packs should be in the box, we just had a bit of a glitch with one of the barcodes on a small group of orders, hence why they took a few days to ship out. If anything is up with the order let us know via email. All orders should now be on their way after today. Cheers! Fran

Hi everyone, As is our tradition now, we will have a Black Friday sale this year, beginning 9am on Friday, November 26th and closing on Monday, November 29th, or on sell out, whichever happens first. We wont reveal what is in the sale until Friday, but can confirm it is our biggest sale ever, and there are savings up to 40% off RRP to be had! This will be no piecemeal small percentage off kinda sale, but a true Black Friday bonanza, just as it should be! So, prepare your wallets and make some serous savings this weekend, and check back here on Friday for further details and links! Cheers! Fran

We will of course have a Black Friday sale, and a very good one it will be too. Look out for details from 9am this Friday! Cheers! Fran

Hi Everyone, Great News! Our Tara Mines wagons have landed in stock, bang on schedule! We announced our latest run of Tara Mines wagons back in June, featuring a new run of red oxide wagons and, for the first time, the iconic original blue with Tara branding and original style hoods. Pre-orders are currently being sent out and will be complete by Tuesday, November 23rd. All new orders will be dispatched after that date. With over 50% of this limited run already sold out, these beauties will not hang around. Perfect companions for your IRM A Class as well as your 071 locomotives, our highly detailed Tara Mines wagons are a must for the Irish modeller. Each twin pack of wagons is available for just €79.95 each and there is 10% off when you order two packs or more, making them the bargain of the Irish model railway scene. Order yours now: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/tara-mines Cheers! Fran

Our Mark 2B coaches have caused quite the stir since we announced them in late August of this year, with a comprehensive list of of BR liveries offered on this missing link of Ready-to-Run coaching stock in 00/4mm. "But, what about us current day modellers?" Well, you have asked, so we have listened, We are now adding two new running numbers to our Mark 2B release programme, with two TSOs in West Coast Railways maroon livery! Following the mass withdrawal of the Mark 2Bs following the sprinterisation during the 1990s many of these attractive coaches found themselves out of work. There was a slight reprieve just a few years later for a small batch of coaches, as the shadow South Wales & West franchise hired some Mark 2Bs for various diagrams between Birmingham/Manchester, Cardiff/Bristol and Westbury/Weymouth. These services ran from 1996 to 1999, with the coaches later being picked up again by Wales & Borders for Rhymney-Cardiff-Fishguard services from 2001-2004. Several of these were then transferred to the West Coast Railways railtour fleet and remain main line registered. Rail tours have become big business on the privitised railway scene, with companies like West Coast Railways operating a series of steam, diesel and electric hauled trains every year across the country with their mixed rakes of Mark 1 and Mark 2 vehicles. To replicate these interesting trains on the network, and to give current scene modellers an excuse to run heritage diesel, electric and steam traction, we are offering two Mark 2B TSOs in West Coast Railways livery to feature in your rail tour fleet. Both coaches are perfect excuses to run heritage diesels such as Class 33, 37 and 47s, as well as 57s in West Coast livery, as well as classics such as BR green and BR blue Then there are electrics like 86259 in classic 1960s blue, or indeed a plethora of mainline registered steam locomotives, from Black 5s, Jubilees, Britannias and more from the golden age of steam! Each Mark 2B coach will be sold separately at a price of £59.95 each and are available to order direct via Accurascale or via your local stockist. A 10% discount is available should you order two or more coaches together direct from Accurascale. Our high specification will once again be apparent throughout this model, including full interior lighting with stay alive function, a wealth of separately applied prototypical details, including etch metal parts, prism free glazing and more. As you can see with the sample above, tooling is complete, the first pre-production samples have been delivered and the project is well advanced. However, there are corrections being made based on the samples which are now being undertaken by the factory. Overall there is a wealth of detail, crispness and they capture the essence of the Mark 2b very well indeed. Delivery is slated for Q3 2022. However, with the current global difficulties in production and shipping following the COVID19 pandemic and Suez issues (shipping companies estimating FOUR YEARS until sea traffic returns to normal!) this may extend to Q4 2022. Browse the range and place your pre-orders direct by clicking here. Specification Highly-detailed OO Gauge / 1:76.2 Scale Models on 16.5mm track Extremely fine exterior rivet detail on roof and coach ends Separately-applied etched metal and high-fidelity plastic parts, including handrails, brake/steam heat pipes, ETH cabling and sockets, footsteps, dummy drophead knuckle coupler, and roof vents Prism Free Glazing Pre-painted/printed Western Region destination boards and holders plus water filler covers provided for customer to install Fully-detailed underframe with numerous separate parts, pipe runs and accurate differences between versions The most accurate B4 and B5 bogies ever produced, with provision for re-gauging to EM or P4 (British 18.83mm) gauges Blackened RP25.110 profile wheel-sets with 14.4mm back-to-back measurements, and 26mm over pinpoints Different buffers for retracted and non-retracted positions Accurate interiors with characteristic 'winged' headrests, separate metal interior handrails on the brake and corridor vehicles and fully-detailed guard's compartment Full lighting package, including magnet 'wand' controlled interior lighting with 'Stay-Alive' capacitor in all coaches and directional lighting with DC or DCC control (Driving Trailer only) Minimum Radius 438mm (2nd Radius Set-track) Correct height NEM standard coupling sockets with mini tension lock couplers and kinematic close-coupling View the full article

Our Mark 2B coaches have caused quite the stir since we announced them in late August of this year, with a comprehensive list of of BR liveries offered on this missing link of Ready-to-Run coaching stock in 00/4mm. "But, what about us current day modellers?" Well, you have asked, so we have listened, We are now adding two new running numbers to our Mark 2B release programme, with two TSOs in West Coast Railways maroon livery! Following the mass withdrawal of the Mark 2Bs following the sprinterisation during the 1990s many of these attractive coaches found themselves out of work. There was a slight reprieve just a few years later for a small batch of coaches, as the shadow South Wales & West franchise hired some Mark 2Bs for various diagrams between Birmingham/Manchester, Cardiff/Bristol and Westbury/Weymouth. These services ran from 1996 to 1999, with the coaches later being picked up again by Wales & Borders for Rhymney-Cardiff-Fishguard services from 2001-2004. Several of these were then transferred to the West Coast Railways railtour fleet and remain main line registered. Rail tours have become big business on the privitised railway scene, with companies like West Coast Railways operating a series of steam, diesel and electric hauled trains every year across the country with their mixed rakes of Mark 1 and Mark 2 vehicles. To replicate these interesting trains on the network, and to give current scene modellers an excuse to run heritage diesel, electric and steam traction, we are offering two Mark 2B TSOs in West Coast Railways livery to feature in your rail tour fleet. Both coaches are perfect excuses to run heritage diesels such as Class 33, 37 and 47s, as well as 57s in West Coast livery, as well as classics such as BR green and BR blue Then there are electrics like 86259 in classic 1960s blue, or indeed a plethora of mainline registered steam locomotives, from Black 5s, Jubilees, Britannias and more from the golden age of steam! Each Mark 2B coach will be sold separately at a price of £59.95 each and are available to order direct via Accurascale or via your local stockist. A 10% discount is available should you order two or more coaches together direct from Accurascale. Our high specification will once again be apparent throughout this model, including full interior lighting with stay alive function, a wealth of separately applied prototypical details, including etch metal parts, prism free glazing and more. As you can see with the sample above, tooling is complete, the first pre-production samples have been delivered and the project is well advanced. However, there are corrections being made based on the samples which are now being undertaken by the factory. Overall there is a wealth of detail, crispness and they capture the essence of the Mark 2b very well indeed. Delivery is slated for Q3 2022. However, with the current global difficulties in production and shipping following the COVID19 pandemic and Suez issues (shipping companies estimating FOUR YEARS until sea traffic returns to normal!) this may extend to Q4 2022. Browse the range and place your pre-orders direct by clicking here. Specification Highly-detailed OO Gauge / 1:76.2 Scale Models on 16.5mm track Extremely fine exterior rivet detail on roof and coach ends Separately-applied etched metal and high-fidelity plastic parts, including handrails, brake/steam heat pipes, ETH cabling and sockets, footsteps, dummy drophead knuckle coupler, and roof vents Prism Free Glazing Pre-painted/printed Western Region destination boards and holders plus water filler covers provided for customer to install Fully-detailed underframe with numerous separate parts, pipe runs and accurate differences between versions The most accurate B4 and B5 bogies ever produced, with provision for re-gauging to EM or P4 (British 18.83mm) gauges Blackened RP25.110 profile wheel-sets with 14.4mm back-to-back measurements, and 26mm over pinpoints Different buffers for retracted and non-retracted positions Accurate interiors with characteristic 'winged' headrests, separate metal interior handrails on the brake and corridor vehicles and fully-detailed guard's compartment Full lighting package, including magnet 'wand' controlled interior lighting with 'Stay-Alive' capacitor in all coaches and directional lighting with DC or DCC control (Driving Trailer only) Minimum Radius 438mm (2nd Radius Set-track) Correct height NEM standard coupling sockets with mini tension lock couplers and kinematic close-coupling View the full article

If anyone is looking for a respray donor we still have a few left in stock https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/murphy-models-class-121-locomotive/availability_in-stock? Have to say I prefer this to the original 1961 grey and yellow, but maybe when 134 is finished in that livery it will change my mind. Cheers! Fran

A46 sold out, A39r not far behind! Thanks for all the orders, folks!

Hi everyone, We're also finished our audits of cancelled orders and have also freed up some of the stock we kept behind for warranty repairs. All numbers apart from A3r are now back on sale in extremely limited quantities. So, if you had previously missed out on a running number... Bag yours here: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/a-class-locomotive Cheers! Fran

Hi everyone, After much begging, moaning, pleading and badgering, we managed to secure a small quantity of A Class standard decoders from ESU. These are the only new batch of ESU Lokpilots available anywhere, and we're so grateful to ESU for prioritising us with these. They have now arrived in stock and any pre-orders for these will be sent out from today. Thank you to everyone for your patience. We thought we'd have to wait 12 months for these as per the global semi conductor shortage! We have a relatively small surplus that you can order now here: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/a-class-locomotive/products/a-class-dcc-standard-chip Cheers! Fran

And someone always has an axe to grind, for whatever reason. But that’s life. We’re just delighted that our core customers are loving them and serves to encourage us to do more powered models for IRM. That’s the most important message we take out of our A Class experience. Cheers! Fran

Right here

err... www.irishrailwaymodels.com Most clubs also run models and layouts covering diverse interests. MRSI for instance as O gauge, American HO, British OO and Continental HO and N as far as I know.

When we did the sound for the As we recorded A39r, so the sound is from a genuine A. No mixing or tricks there from other EMD locos. End of the day, our sound chip is the real deal and the As sound different to other EMD locos due to their unique silencer set up. Just need Australia to relax quarantine rules now and we'll get the Crossley one done!

Due to a cancellation of a largish order some As are back online for sale! https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/a-class-locomotive/availability_in-stock?

Hi everyone, 027 is the latest to sell out, biting the dust this morning. Only 7 running numbers left, with 056 looking the most endangered https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/a-class-locomotive/availability_in-stock? Cheers! Fran

Perhaps. We shall see in time.

A couple of small ones, yes

Hi everyone, Great news! We have dispatched all of the fully paid up, A Class pre-orders, including A3R. If you have placed an order and not yet fully paid for your A Class, you must pay up by Friday, November 12th. Failure to do so will result in your order being cancelled. With some very nice, sold out liveries being taken up with unpaid orders it will give others a chance to purchase it. You will also lose your €50 deposit. If you have paid up and heard nothing from us, please contact sales@irishrailwaymodels.com ASAP so we can look into it for you. If you have a friend who doesnt do online, or is away, please let them know so they don't miss out! Thanks, Fran

Nom nom nom!

Hi everyone, The great news just keeps rolling in here at IRM, with our Tara Mines wagons now less than two weeks away from arrival. Perfect for our new A Classes, the Taras in their gorgeous original blue livery, or later brown are perfect for our metrovicks. So, if you need some stock to go behind your new locos, look no further! At just €79.95 for a twin pack of wagons they offer amazing value for money too! We have also modified the bogies to feature brass bearings for even smoother running characteristics. Order yours today, with 10% off when you order two or more packs: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/tara-mines Cheers! Fran

A couple of months ago we brought you a Class 92 update featuring decorated samples of their later privitisation era liveries which seemed to go down well. Now we have received a second batch of decorated samples featuring the various styles of Railfreight two tone grey with Chunnel blue roof these locomotives were originally delivered in during the mid 1990s. Doesn't this livery just suit them so well? Our model of 92003 represents our Dysons as per first delivered during the heady, optimistic times of the significant freight growth envisaged by the opening of the Channel Tunnel. With its attractive take on the then standard triple grey livery, but with the added splash of colour with the blue roof, just like the Eurostar at the time, they made for an eye catching sight as they came into service. Of course, the Class 92s were born into a major upheaval to the railways, with privitisation gathering momentum. Soon various brandings were taking place offering some new takes on the classic grey livery. RFD were quick to brand their locomotives in similar fashion to their Class 47s, 86s and 90s with "Railfreight Distribution" script on each side with the addition of small RFD double diamond markings, as depcited in our model of 92022 'Charles Dickens'. After a very brief period in BR service the locomotives found themselves with new owners. EWS took the Dysons under their wing as they purchased RFD along with various other shadow freight franchises in the mid 1990s. With the locomotives being new, and the amazingly hard wearing paint job done on the body shells by Procor Engineering when first built, many wouldn't need a repaint for many years. As the 2000s wore on EWS did take to branding their locos in existing liveries with the large vinyl "Three Beasties" logos, as displayed by our model of 92036, which is still operating trains in this livery today. EWS were not the only company to add their branding to the iconic grey livery. Six locomotives were allocated for "Nightstar" sleeper train duties, sadly a service which would never take off. These locomotives were eventually bought from Eurostar by Europorte, receiving "Europorte 2" Tunnel branding as per our model of 92043 "Debussy". Our testing of the Class 92 is now complete and production has now begun, with our delivery date of Q3 2022 still in place. We have even tested our Dysons in exhibition conditions, with our preproduction model of 92001 playing a starring role on the Making Tracks WCML layout at the recent "Great Electric Train Show" at Milton Keynes, preforming flawlessly on the Sunday of the show. Click on the link below to see her in action! Remember, we have now set our early bird price deadline and it's getting ever closer. With the sheer amount of technology and separate detail in these locomotives a price increase from £159.99 DCC ready to £179.99 DCC ready and £259.99 DCC Sound Fitted to £279.99 DCC Sound Fitted will take place on January 1st 2022. All orders placed before that date and so far will avail of the lower price, including £30 deposits. So, if you fancy one (or more!) of these overhead and third rail beauties for your layout, make sure you place your order soon to avail of the bargain of the model railway world! (Even at the higher price they represent excellent value for money, but who doesn't like saving a few quid?) With two operating DCC pantographs with separate flywheel motors for smooth operation, Legomanbiffo DCC sounds, twin speaker set up including an EM1 style "Accurathrash" speaker, ESU Loksound 5 digital decoder, ESU powerbank capacitors for smooth running and more, all for up to £70.00 less RRP(!) than other high specification electric locomotives on the market, our Class 92 goes beyond the pinnacle of model locomotives and powers on to the summit. So, make sure you grab so much more, for so much less cash. Order your grey beauty today, available direct from Accurascale, or check out our website for the full range. View the full article