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We are going to hold off opening the order book until we have a firm delivery date after the messing around with the liners. Once our corrections are made and production is ready to go we will, so it will be soon. We just need to sort stuff out with the factory first. Track is C&L as far as I can remember!

Happy Friday everyone! Here is some pics of the decorated Ferts as a special weekend treat! We will have these available for inspection at the Stilorgan fair this weekend along with the liner sample, as well as a limited supply of bubbles, taras and ploughs. Drop by for a look and pick some wagons up! The brake wheel position will be corrected on the production models and the fert bags will be painted the right colour too, but apart from that they're good to go after we land the liners!

no problem men, we do welcome the questions as at the end of the day, we want to get them right! Cheers! Fran

Hi iarnrod, Great photos, but I would argue that they are heavily weathered for the most part, with the one at the end in Inchicore cleanest, which indeed looks like a repaint into orange. Repaints may have got orange, but as delivered (and many were not repainted) were lighter in our experience. We white balanced that pic to get a colour representation, and as you can see at this clean part of the nearmost container is a close match for our shade. You can also see in the cleaner parts of the the container along the side that it has a lighter shade. I would say that my pic last night is taken in very bright conditions (my bad on that one). The weedspray container itself is in a poor shape paint wise and the container representing this will be a different shade on our model of that train. If you look around the door mech and handles in the below pic you can see the proper colour of these containers. They will look great weathered I agree, but this was the ex works colour going by the evidence we found. I would say ours just look a bit odd as they were under a very bright light, I brightened the pic up slightly to bring out the wagon underframe details and it was very rare you saw a clean one. If I pile them in more normal light in the office you can see they are a darker shade. (no trickery done to the below) Cheers, Fran

I blame my photography skills on that one, but the research material suggests suggest they were quite bright in colour when clean Richie dirtied one up too, uniload 10 footers seemed darker in colour than these 20fts? We’re going to have another look but we think it’s pretty close?

Decorated Liner Samples! Our 'Project 42' has been a massive undertaking, with the wagon becoming five projects in one and taking a long time to come to fruition, but we now finally on the home straight! As you can see, we received some decorated samples of the liners. There a some decoration corrections to be made, but that has already been sent to China. The coupling mechanism caused a lot of head scratching and didn't function on our first sample, so this took a lot of work to sort, including tooling changes to get right. As it was dealing with die-cast, it took a lot of work. Production has begun, and delivery is in mid-October. It's taken far longer than we would've liked, but we had to ensure that they function correctly as well as look great. Dont miss out on these babies, order yours today: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/container-liners

What have we here?! It's been a long time coming, with many, many hurdles to clear, but project 42 is edging closer! We will have a full update on liner delivery dates this week, along with some previews of ferts and the opening of the order book! Keep an eye out for further updates this week and drop by to see more at the Stillorgan train and toy sale show this Sunday!

Hi Noel, it appears you have done the same on my comments, so can we conclude that you are sitting in a glass house here? Your constant sniping at me and others here and elsewhere for posting anything you disagree with has become tiresome to be honest, but we let it go and give you every chance. As other lads above have pointed out, we are having a debate about trains, nothing more. I find it quite poor that because I post something you disagree with you decide to throw my job and livelihood at me as a protest. How distasteful in the extreme. I’m so disappointed. It’s patiently obvious that I cannot have different opinions on things railway and enjoy a discussion and debate without having these threats held over me in the future. Mark 3 = Good. ICRs = Bad. Thread locked.

You can’t agree that the Mark IIIs were due refurbishment and with government money in plentiful supply at the time it made sense to buy new for longer service life of new stock in return and cheaper operating costs? You make the argument about ICRs being unsuitable for service, but if you read back what you quoted from me I didn’t say anything regarding the suitability or not of ICRs.

25-30 year old coaches with refurb, extended life expectancy of about 15 years? New rolling stock which is safer, more fuel efficient, cheaper to run and does away with shunting at either end of the journey? 30 year life. Refurbishment cos are about 65-70% of buying new, so it was a no brainer and the right decision. The Mark IIIs gave good life but their time was done. Thankfully the right decision to buy new trains was made to give IE one of the most modern fleets in Europe, and at the end of the day it’s run as a service to the public, not something to appease us gricers and enthusiasts.

Why not all 3? haha In all seriousness, we have a good few projects underway for IRM that we have not announced yet, and a good idea of what we will make for a number of years to come. We will bring out a lot of models and we will be around for a long time! We have also a lot of models announced that we have yet to deliver of course, so until we land some of them we wont be announcing much else. Then there's the re-runs of ballasts, gypsums, blue taras etc etc and Paddy's 121 too. So, lots to consider. Patience is what it's all about! And the more we sell, the more we can make of course. Cheers! Fran

The Mark IIIs have continued to run in the UK due to extensive refurbishments. The choice IE had at the time was rebuild or get new. With plenty of money floating around and cheaper operating costs, it made sense at the time to buy the ICRs instead, so that can hardly be described as 'criminally negligent'. Hindsight is a powerful thing but I can understand why a load of coaches werent left rotting in sidings for a decade during a long recession in case one day the railways got busy again. As much as I liked the mark IIIs too it is understandable why they were binned at the time.

Not guilty m’lud! Didn’t participate as felt my biased picks would reflect what we have in the pipeline and would negatively impact on it as a result. Cheers! Fran

Hi Gareth, Because the wagon is mainly diecast it has taken longer than usual for the alterations, but they are done now. Production has begun and we expect them in stock in mid September. Cheers! Fran

Lovely space Jason, great to see it come together!

Now that’s the job! Superb!

I’d contact the seller on EBay and inform him of the issue if you just bought it, especially if he described it as perfect working order or similar. Best bet after that is to email Murphy Models who may have spares and / or help you out. If you have no joy there contact marks models as they do repairs. However, I think the EBay seller is your first port of call.

We've started doing a few of these for Accurascale. If we can get reliable info like above we might do some on the stock we're making (prototypically accurate, of course!)

Exactly, it's to promote fair competition and provide better results for citizens. Very simple, nothing more.

Hi @ttc0169, a little later than billed, but hope you like! cheers! Fran

Will do tomorrow Noel!

Heat wrapped I think?

Hi gang, Having the craic with the flat and containers in the liner yard on the new office layout (more from that soon!) We had to make a few alterations to the sample as you can probably work out, but production continues and they will be with us in the coming weeks. Obviously you like liners as much as we do, as these are the fastest selling wagons we have done to date. Cheers for that! If you fancy some this is the link to click! https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/container-liners Remember, it's any 4 packs for €375 and all 5 packs for €460. And yes, we are doing the CIE 20ft container as a separate item. More news on prices etc soon! Cheers! Fran

Hi! Do you have a link to the original article please? Cheers! Fran

Very nice DJ, you’re not based in the Galápagos Islands by any chance, are you?