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IR leads by 5 at the moment

Perfect for you @Noel

Thanks men, we’re at the 20% presold already! We were always a bit apprehensive about doing the plough as we could only ever do them in such a low quantity. While we will do another batch of hoppers some time in the future it’s unlikely we’d have call to do a further batch of ploughs. It’s great to see you all get behind them and vindicate the decision!

Sorry Noel, I reread the spec and I have made an error re DCC. The functionally is the following; There is on/off capability with DCC chip, but if you do not fit one the lighting will be on as a constant. So strictly you do not need to fit a DCC chip to have lights on with DCC, but you will have control if you fit a chip. apologies for the confusion! Hi Craven, yes if you order now it’s payment up front as it’s how our web system works. You can of course run the risk of waiting for them to be released and hope they don’t sell out before release. cheers, Fran

You can get two function decoders for a lot less than 25 euro if you know where to look. We will have chips to recommend in the coming weeks. They will be 8 pin and installed inside the van.

No Noel, for DCC control it will need a decoder. The switch is for DC use.

Hi Geoff, Yes, the Irish Cement branded bubbles that we found sold out in about a minute and a half this morning. We will have ivory packs C and D as well as orange packs E and F for sale at Bangor. Drop by the stand for a chat, be great to meet you. Cheers, Fran

Correct Noel, this utilises the Bubble / Ballast chassis.

My colleagues @Glenderg and @Garfield will have that info

I've talked to a couple of lads who have bought sets C and D and added Railtec Irish Cement logos, so there's always that option too! Oh God yeah, Irish railways are seriously complicated, as we have found out since we started IRM!

We have hard pictorial evidence of four bubbles which had the Irish Cement branding and we did three of them. If someone can find us two more we will absolutely do a pack!

Sorry for the few technical gremlins this morning folks, all sorted now and the orders for both packs are flying in!

Hi Noel, we may do them at a later date but these vans fit with the era of our ballast hopper release so it made sense to do these liveries to compliment them. Cheers Fran

Went in just under 100 seconds. Wow! Still, if you missed out, you can console yourself with the plough no going on preorder maybe?

Bump!

Our next model, the highly exclusive CIÉ/Irish Rail 24850-24854 series ballast plough van, is now available to pre-order ahead of delivery in August 2018! Five of the CIÉ/Irish Rail 24850-24854 series vans were introduced in 1978 to supersede elderly pre-grouping vans for the Civil Engineering Department. They usually ran in pairs, top-and-tailing ballast hopper trains across the Irish railway network until their withdrawal in 2013. Following the success of our first model, the CIÉ/Irish Rail Ballast Hopper wagons, it seemed fitting to add the Ballast Plough to our range to complete a typical Irish ballast train. The model will utilise the same chassis as the ballast hopper and cement bubbles as per prototype, and will include features such as fully detailed interior, wire mesh on the windows (where appropriate) and full DCC control of interior and tail lights via a two function 8 pin decoder (not supplied). The vans will also feature switches to operate these features on analogue systems. The Plough Vans will be made in a strictly limited production run. Four of the five vans will be represented in this batch of releases, with the vans coming in two packs of two for a sale price of €119.95. This price reflects the very small production volume and complexity of the model. There will be an IR and IE pack, both carrying CIÉ/Irish Rail ‘Machinery Yellow’ as per prototype. The IR pack will feature two vans with the IR ‘points’ logo, gained in the late 1980’s and observed on some plough vans as late as 2006. The second will be in IE livery, which represents the final years of these unique vans. These vans will nicely finish off rakes of IRM ballast wagons and help complete an authentic Irish ballast train. Orders are now being taken via the IRM website: http://irishrailwaymodels.com/product-category/freight-stock/ballast-plough/

Pretty cool Dave. Adavoyle has to be the best Irish outline layout around, it's just stunning. The Lima Sealink coaches are of the BR Mark ones which ran excursion trains in the UK like below. NIR also painted their 70 class Thumper in the same livery. Bachmann recently did a twin coach pack in this livery too for their collectors club.

Opportune time for a sickie, Robert!

He'd have my blessing anyway...

Is the Pope more of an 071 man?

Friday the 13th is usually seen as an unlucky day, but your luck may change for the better this week. We've just discovered a limited number of the highly sought after 'Irish Cement' branded cement bubble pack As in our warehouse! As you may remember, these sold out rapidly when they arrived for the three day South Dublin Model Railway show back in October. We were reorganising our storage area and found 10 packs in a box from that show which we can now offer on sale. Since these wagons are coveted by so many modellers, we have decided give everyone notice of their sale well in advance. These will go on sale online only this coming Friday, April 13th at 10am. There is a limit of one pack per customer and are sold on a 'first come, first served' basis. The price remains the same as we're sound lads (no stealth EBay accounts for us!) at €125.00 plus P&P per pack. Make sure you don't miss out on your last chance to secure these packs! Place your order from Friday morning here. Good Luck!

Expect more news and updates on that in the coming days...

This is a BR OTA wagon.

We will be there with cement bubbles for sale, the pre-production Tara Mines wagon to show you all and possibly something new! Keep an eye on our Facebook and website for more news on that in the coming days! So there might be something new to chat about over the coffee at the IRM stand meetup....

Another milestone for us here today, with the first Accurascale model entering production!