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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?

Looks very well in IRM towers now!

Amazing to see that our first loco project, the A Class, is over 20% sold out already! We are due a first tooling sample in mid September, and we think it will be evident at how special these beauties will be then! As you can see below, it's going to be well worth the wait!

Hi, can you email us at support@irishrailwaymodels.com about this issue so we can look into it? Cheers!

correct!

Hi everyone, While we were off air we got a sample of our CIE 20ft containers. We are assessing them at the moment and have some amendments to make, but moving in the right direction! We will have better pics once I get the sample back off our technical director! Cheers! Fran

As Jason says above, these would be the ivory liveried bubbles, painted in that livery from around 1980 and stayed in that livery until the were withdrawn in 2008. We have evidence of 6 with Irish cement logos while the rest carried the CIE roundels all the way to 2008. Every bubble we have done in that livery with the CIE logo had it at withdrawal as we used pictures from around that time for reference. The Irish cement logo is very popular (and does look great) but the CIE roundel was far more numerous. The original grey livery was 1964 until the early 70s, replaced by orange from the early 70s which was then replaced by ivory in the early 80s. Orange would have run mixed with both liveries as they overlapped. Hope this helps! Cheers Fran

We are looking at the possibility of doing the pallets as an accessory item, watch this space. You could take off the two strakes at the top to access them but do so at your own risk!