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Taras and ferts too of course. Timber wagons, 47 ft flats, CPWs too I think?

After many, many requests from modellers across the land, we have produced packs of our Y33 Sambre et Meuse bogies in separate packs! Perfect to aid running of your old kit built or converted stock, these are the only prototypically accurate Irish wagon bogie available in ready to run form and will allow for reliable running for your kit built wagons, or a load for a flat wagon or lorry as seen regularly on the roads between depots for maintenance! With the bogies now featuring brass bearings, they will provide a nice solution to getting your kit built wagons running reliably. They also feature rotating axle caps, easy conversion to 21mm, separate detail parts such as brake actuators and metal wheelsets. Priced at just €14.94 per four pack of bogies, they're available in black, brown and red oxide, and are in stock and ready to dispatch. Place your order here. View the full article

Time for another addition to our Accurascale Exclusives range; and this time it's the turn of our humble little Chaldron wagons. The Chaldrons have caused quite the stir and our model was met with a surprise when we first announced them in October. The genesis of our "Powering Britain" range has gone down very well indeed, with over 80% of the production run now sold out. We were able to sneak one more pack onto the production line, which is now busy assembling our first batch of these distinctive hoppers. Welcome to the NCB internal user pack! The Prototypes Our exclusive pack consists of Ex-S.C.C National Coal Board - Three early period Darlington built Chaldrons, as present at Stargate Colliery in the 1950s to the early 1960s. At Stargate Colliery, the lines from Emma and Greenside Collieries converged, with the Emma branch being worked by a stationary engine based at Stargate, which itself was joined to the ex-NER lines near Heathfield, halfway between Stella and Addison, by a self-acting incline. The stationary engine at Stargate was replaced in 1948 by locomotive working and this practice continued until 1961, when the whole system closed down, the Chaldrons having been in continuous use since the mid-19th century. Used to supply coal for the boilers at Stargate and Emma, the Chaldrons were also used as service vehicles, with waste and building materials being transported to and from the collieries, while others were used as runner vehicles on the incline between the two collieries. This enabled wagons to be moved into the headshunt at Emma above the screens, as well as to bring empty wagons up from the bottom of the incline. As a result of their longevity in service, it was not uncommon to see both NCB and S.C.Co. legends mixed together in rakes of Chaldrons, an incongruous sight among the more modern wagons being used. The Models As can be seen from the artwork, we have given these NCB hoppers a distinctive distressed look, with replacement planks in grey primer part of the artwork for these packs to represent the 'patch repairs' the prototypes received working for the NCB. This makes them an excellent basis for weathering. This pack is due with the rest of the Chaldron production run in Q2 2022 and is only available via Accurascale, made in strictly limited numbers of 300 packs. Order your NCB back by clicking here, or browse the full Chaldron range here! View the full article

Time for another addition to our Accurascale Exclusives range; and this time it's the turn of our humble little Chaldron wagons. The Chaldrons have caused quite the stir and our model was met with a surprise when we first announced them in October. The genesis of our "Powering Britain" range has gone down very well indeed, with over 80% of the production run now sold out. We were able to sneak one more pack onto the production line, which is now busy assembling our first batch of these distinctive hoppers. Welcome to the NCB internal user pack! The Prototypes Our exclusive pack consists of Ex-S.C.C National Coal Board - Three early period Darlington built Chaldrons, as present at Stargate Colliery in the 1950s to the early 1960s. At Stargate Colliery, the lines from Emma and Greenside Collieries converged, with the Emma branch being worked by a stationary engine based at Stargate, which itself was joined to the ex-NER lines near Heathfield, halfway between Stella and Addison, by a self-acting incline. The stationary engine at Stargate was replaced in 1948 by locomotive working and this practice continued until 1961, when the whole system closed down, the Chaldrons having been in continuous use since the mid-19th century. Used to supply coal for the boilers at Stargate and Emma, the Chaldrons were also used as service vehicles, with waste and building materials being transported to and from the collieries, while others were used as runner vehicles on the incline between the two collieries. This enabled wagons to be moved into the headshunt at Emma above the screens, as well as to bring empty wagons up from the bottom of the incline. As a result of their longevity in service, it was not uncommon to see both NCB and S.C.Co. legends mixed together in rakes of Chaldrons, an incongruous sight among the more modern wagons being used. The Models As can be seen from the artwork, we have given these NCB hoppers a distinctive distressed look, with replacement planks in grey primer part of the artwork for these packs to represent the 'patch repairs' the prototypes received working for the NCB. This makes them an excellent basis for weathering. This pack is due with the rest of the Chaldron production run in Q2 2022 and is only available via Accurascale, made in strictly limited numbers of 300 packs. Order your NCB back by clicking here, or browse the full Chaldron range here! View the full article

Correct George, Jan issue. Can anyone spot the error on the cover?

Simon Bendall's review is in Railways Illustrated this month too. Simon is quite knowledgeable about the Irish scene so well worth a look. Both Supertrain liveried As are now on the endangered species list if anyone is pondering which A to grab next. Perfect companion for the blue Taras too! https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/a-class-locomotive/availability_in-stock? Cheers! Fran

Thanks for the update, @Brack. Please pass on the best wishes from all of us at IRM/Accurascale and we all hope he gets well very soon!

Our humble HUO hopper wagon is coming back! Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce new packs of the first Accurascale model, the 24.5 ton BR coal hopper wagon. These are an essential part of our "Powering Britain" series of coal wagons through the ages of the railway, providing essential service to the power stations across the country from the 1950s to the 1980s. Available in both pre-TOPS and TOPS guises, four new three packs are now available to pre-order. Delivery is slated for Q2 2022, with pre-production decorated samples due soon. As ever, we love to give you the very best value, with three highly detailed wagons for an excellent price of just £69.95 per pack and a further 10% off when you buy two packs or more. Pre-order yours by clicking here! View the full article

Our humble HUO hopper wagon is coming back! Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce new packs of the first Accurascale model, the 24.5 ton BR coal hopper wagon. These are an essential part of our "Powering Britain" series of coal wagons through the ages of the railway, providing essential service to the power stations across the country from the 1950s to the 1980s. Available in both pre-TOPS and TOPS guises, four new three packs are now available to pre-order. Delivery is slated for Q2 2022, with pre-production decorated samples due soon. As ever, we love to give you the very best value, with three highly detailed wagons for an excellent price of just £69.95 per pack and a further 10% off when you buy two packs or more. Pre-order yours by clicking here! View the full article

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Hi everyone, Just a reminder, sale ends 6pm! Lot's sold out, with some more not far behind. Don't miss the biggest Irish model rail sale ever! https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/blackfriday Cheers, Fran

Hi everyone, Thanks for the feedback! it seems that our Black Friday sale has gone down very well indeed, with many of you bagging bargains! Thank you to everyone who has shopped with us so far. Several product lines have now sold out, but there are still plenty of tasty bargains to be had, with 30% off RRP on remaining ballast, gypsum and spoil wagon packs, or an incredible 40% off when you buy two packs or more! There is an incredible 52% off RRP of our remaining stock of local link buses from Britbus too. Sale ends 6pm on Monday, so don't miss out. Order now: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/blackfriday Cheers! Fran

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