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We wil be doing discounts for rake bundles for all wagons from now on I'm delighted to say!

They will indeed, part of the appeal of the Tara was to give us this bogie to be reused on other wagons!

Hi George, I hear what you're saying, but we will make them as affordable as possible so lads can build up to them over the weeks months. When locos come out they come out in large batches in multiple liveries and lads manage to buy them up. These will be lower cost items so can be stretched to I'm sure. It's a lot of stuff, but with the rapid sales of our previous releases we firmly believe the market is there. As for the ploughs, there will be early and late liveries released. We'll have more news on them as they get closer to release! Cheers, Fran Sorry dude! It sure is Gareth....

They will have different running numbers and will be an older pattern of container design, which was still very long lived!

@Glenderg surpassing even his own epic standards again. Talent is unbelievable. They're going to be epic I reckon!

Cheers men, prob best to put the comments over here!

BUMP!

Actually, I cant count. Getting the posts ready for tomorrow and there are SIX models in there!

The wait is finally over. March 3rd has arrived, and we can now reveal the most ambitious range ever announced by Irish Railway Models. It’s disappointing we could not do this at our planned IRM Social event, but we’re sure that our 2018 range will warm you up with excitement during this cold snap! We are releasing no less than six completely new models over the next 12 months, not including the Tara Mines wagon due in June! We have put the Taras on pre-order, and almost 20% have sold already. Remember, you get 10% off a rake (all five red oxide packs) if you use the discount code you got in the ballast packs bought from us directly. Click here to secure your pre-order. CIE Fertiliser Wagon Project 4 will be the distinctive CIE bogie fertiliser wagon, an iconic Irish wagon which could be found across the system for over 30 years. This will be the first wagon in our ‘Project 42’ series, which sees a number of wagon releases based around the humble 42ft flat wagon. A total of 90 were built by CIE to carry pallets of fertiliser from the IFI plant near Arklow, Co. Wicklow across the country. The IRM release will consist of multiple packs of two wagons in a variety of markings to allow the formation of a prototypical train. The Ferts are due late Q2 2018. CIE Ballast Plough Van Book-ending the ballast hopper wagons already made by IRM, the CIE ballast plough van will be project 5. Four of these vans were built by CIE in 1978 and were used to spread the ballast dropped from the hopper wagons. These will be highly exclusive, made in very limited numbers and will be released in packs of two vans in original CIE yellow livery and the later IE livery they wore before withdrawal in 2013. The vans will feature a full lighting package including interior lights and tail lamps with analogue switch and DCC operation. CAD is complete, and this will be in stock in Q3 2018. Guinness Train The ubiquitous CIE 42ft flat wagon, as used as the chassis on the fertiliser wagons, allows us to offer a variety of authentic freight train formations. Guinness trains, featuring keg cages and loads to replicate another iconic Irish freight flow, forms IRM project 6 and they are due in Q3. Modern Spoil Train We want to offer something else from the current scene to complement our Tara Mines wagon, so project 7 will see the modern spoil train complete with the spoil containers used on current permanent way traffic across the country. This is also due in Q3. Weedsprayer Pack Picture courtesy of The Wanderer Another current train (and a gricers favourite!) due in Q3 is Project 8, which will be the weedsprayer train with tanks and CIE container. The train will be a special triple pack made in a limited production run, featuring the wasp stripe headboards which can be affixed to your 141/181 or 071. The weedsprayer coach itself is under consideration as a future model, subject to demand. If you want it, let us know! Iconic Liners Finally, thanks to a collaboration with C-Rail Intermodal, the iconic Bell liners will be available for the first time in accurate RTR format, with 40 ft containers on IRM 42ft flats being released. These containers will use new tooling from C-Rail to give an alternative pattern to other Bell releases. These containers will have new identities not previously released by C-Rail. We are also looking into other containers that ran on the flats, such as B&I containers. The headboard will be a separately applied item that comes in a baggie. There will be packs of flats featuring the humble CIE 20ft container, which is being tooled as part of our weedspray train. The 20ft container will be released as a separate standalone item too to pose on the back of trucks and yards on your layouts. The liner packs form IRM project number 9 and they are due in Q4. Bare wagons may also be released later, allowing customers to add containers they already own The container, Guinness and spoil wagons will be released in packs of two with a variety of running numbers. Prices for all new releases will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Cheers, Fran (on behalf of the IRM Team - Patrick, Richie and Stephen)

It'll be worth the clatter across the head from the new wife!

Put them on the wedding gift list!

Anytime dude! If anyone else has any issues ordering just email or PM me! In other news, we've sold over 10% of the run already! Thank you all who have ordered, we're blown away with the orders so far! These wagons will be the business and the rake bundles seem very popular, so we're going to include that in all future releases.

We need something to do while stuck at home I guess! Code issue should now be resolved!

We're having a bit of a tech issue with the discount code at the moment Robbie, some software needs updating. If you (or anyone else!) emails me the code to fran@irishrailwaymodels.com we can process it for you. Apologies!

Hi Noel, they will be here in June 2018!

Well, since we are all stuck indoors for the next few hours we may have just opened Tara preordering.. https://irishrailwaymodels.com/product-category/freight-stock/tara-mines/

Well, since we are all stuck indoors for the next few hours we may have just opened Tara preordering.. https://irishrailwaymodels.com/product-category/freight-stock/tara-mines/

RM SOCIAL POSTPONED Sadly we have to postpone our IRM Social and 2018 Range Launch this Saturday due to the extreme weather conditions. However, we will still announce our 2018 range on Saturday at 4pm online, begin Tara pre-orders on our site and we will do the social gathering at a later date. If you could help us spread the world and let everyone who might be thinking of coming that it is now off we would very much appreciate it.

It is Ernie, they weather to a dirty brown color with use!

Here's the one we surveyed in North Wall last year actually, under permission and strict supervision from IE of course! They're a lovely chunky wagon I have to say.

Hi Graham, This rake deal is for anyone who DOES NOT have a discount code from the ballast wagons we sold directly from our website or shows. It works out at a 5% discount. If you have a code, you add the five packs to the cart and put the code in at the checkout and you will get 10% off the overall price, which is €355. Hope this helps! Fran

Just a reminder to everyone that the RSVP deadline is this evening at 6pm. Please email info@irishrailwaymodels.com or confirm on the Facebook event page if you're coming!

They will have plenty of weight in them Graham.

They most certainly will George, each wagon has a different running number!

You know us George, keep pushing the standards forward. It took a lot of design to sort it out (some American models have it, but they can clip in on the design of their bogies, whereas ours is a fully enclosed bearing) but we have got a design in place for it. Kinematic coupling system is similar to the ones used in coaches to bring them closer together on straights and open out on curves. We will ensures ours will work properly!