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Just to remind everyone that we are doing a special for the orange bubbles this weekend only, both at the show and online. If ordering online use the discount code Orange for the two pack deal, and orangerake for the four pack deal! If you’re after the ballast rake deal the code is ballastrake

Just to remind everyone that we are doing a special for the orange bubbles this weekend only, both at the show and online. If ordering online use the discount code Orange for the two pack deal, and orangerake for the four pack deal!

Just home after a hectic day after a great dinner with the SDMRC, a great dinner and well organised show. I would just like to say a sincere thank you to everyone for their patience and their custom today. I talked to a lengthy list of people, familar faces and new ones too! As you may have seen elsewhere, the bubbles arrived about 4pm. It was brilliant to finally see them arrive and recieve great feedback on everything. Looking forward to doing it again tomorrow!

And they’re here! Just before show closed!

Hi everyone to avail of the speica offer please use BALLASTRAKE for for the ballast wagons and ORANGE for the orange bubble deal!

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At the time of writing they’re over Turkey!

One more sleep! We are all set up and ready for a weekend of model railway fun at the South Dublin Model Railway Club show in Blackrock college. The bubbles are ready for takeoff in Dubai and should be with us by 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. We will will reveal our new product at 11am! See you tomorrow!

While we receive the first shipment of bubbles this weekend, the factory in China is working hard to get the rest of them ready. No better modellers in my opinion!

Irish Railway Models today announces that it will release its highly detailed cement bubble wagon in the iconic CIÉ orange and grey livery in time for Christmas 2017. The announcement was made at the beginning of the South Dublin Model Railway Show at Blackrock, Dublin and is the fourth project that Irish Railway Models has announced to date. Introduced in seven batches between 1964 and 1972, a total of 150 of these two-axle wagons were built by Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) to convey bulk loads of cement from Irish Cement’s plants at Drogheda in County Louth, Castlemungret in County Limerick and Platin in County Meath to distribution points throughout the CIÉ/Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways’ networks. Despite being introduced at different stages, the fleet carried numbers in an unbroken sequence ranging from 25050 to 25199. Affectionately known as ‘bubbles’ due to their distinctive profile, most of the fleet remained in service right up until the cessation of cement traffic by rail in 2009. All 150 bubbles received the distinctive orange and grey livery in the early 1970s, replacing the earlier slate grey, with the last two batches of bubbles constructed receiving the orange livery from new. It was superseded by the ivory and black livery in the late 1970s, although both liveries could be observed running together into the early 1980s. The Irish Railway Models release consists of two packs of three bubbles, all with unique running numbers. They are available to order at the show or online for €125.00. A special introductory price of €225 for two packs and €425 for four packs is also available at the show and online for the duration of the 2017 October Bank Holiday exhibition. A colour sample has been received from our factory in China, but is incorrect and will be amended for production. Prices after this weekend will revert to €125.00 per pack. Delivery is slated for December 2017, with production commencing after the current run of Ivory bubbles is completed. To order your bubbles, please visit www.irishrailwaymodels.com/shop

Hi Stephen, I have seen pictures of them in Supertrain before re-engineering. I also believe there were visual differences compared to the rest of the C’s, including only having one engine room window instead of two.

Good things come to those who wait, Leslie!

Thanks men, we have wanted to do a gift card for a while and our recent survey has shown that a payment scheme was desired so this gives us the best of both worlds.

Sick of receiving non-railway gifts for Christmas? Finding it difficult to explain the differences between gauge and Irish outline models to loved ones who ask you for gift suggestions? Would you like a way to start a savings scheme, so you can buy the best Irish outline ready-to-run wagons on the market? What you need is the new IRM Card! We are launching our new gift and prepay card scheme at the South Dublin Model Railway Club this weekend. The IRM Card is essentially two cards in one: it can be used as a gift voucher to offer as a present to the modeller in your life, while it can also be used by modellers to set aside funds in anticipation of buying IRM products at a later date. This will act as the reintroduction of the staggered payment scheme. The IRM Card can be topped up online, or at IRM stands at shows. They can also be bought online or at shows with values of €25, €50 or €100 offered initially. You can pick them up at the show this weekend, or via https://irishrailwaymodels.com/shop/card/gift-card/ from Saturday onward! (Don't worry, this is NOT Project 4, just an added bonus!)

Hi everyone, I have a further update on the cement bubbles for this weekend which consists of bad news and good news. Firstly, the good news. Our first small shipment of bubbles are currently in transit and are making their way to us. (YAY!!!) The bad news is that they were detained by Chinese customs for inspection and missed their scheduled flight, putting everything back 24 hours. As it stands, they are due to land in Dublin on Saturday. So, what does this mean? Well, thanks to the sheer dedication and hard work of IWT (for which we will be forever grateful, they are a joy to use) the small consignment of A and B packs will be sent direct to Blackrock. This will on Saturday afternoon, so we will not have any bubbles available for collection until 3:30pm on Saturday at our stand. We apologise for this if you were hoping to collect before then, but sadly it was completely beyond our control. Remember, if you wish to collect your pack A and B at the show, please let us know at info@irishrailwaymodels.com before 6pm today (Thursday) so we can prepare them for you. Thank you for your patience! Thanks! Fran (on behalf of the IRM team)

Hi everyone, As you know we like to do some special offers for the Dublin show each year. This year is no different! We will be offering unbeatable discounts on ballast wagons as well as a very special offer for the item we're launching at the show on Saturday. These deals will be for this weekend only, both at the show and online, from Saturday Morning until Monday evening (Oct 30th, 2017) Buy any two ballast packs for €220, saving €20! Buy a rake of ballast wagons (1 Pack A, 1 Pack B and 1 Pack C) for €310, saving €50! Project 4 is of course, a wagon. Sold in packs of three like our bubbles and ballasts. It will cost €125 per pack. Buy two packs of project 4 for €225, saving €25! Buy a rake of project 4 wagons (four packs) for €425, saving €75! Remember folks, this weekend only. Will not be repeated. Cannot be mixed with other wagons. To paraphrase that well known home-ware store "Once They're Gone, They're Gone!" The ballasts very nearly are, so don't miss out. We also will not be revealing what project 4 is until Saturday morning, not even via PM! We will put up pictures on here and Facebook so those who cannot make the show do not miss out. We will have a deco sample of project four, it's crude, without detail and we are not happy with the colour. It will be available to order from us online and at the show. Thanks, Fran (on behalf of IRM!)

Really enjoyable issue of the journal, love the feature on Dun Laoghaire!

Thanks Rebelred, words like that make the hard work worthwhile!

Hi Popeye, We have a record of your order. Can you email us direct at info@irishrailwaymodels.com if you wish to collect at the show? thanks, Fran

Thanks lads. We're disappointed that they wont be all here but at least we have some to hand on Saturday. We will have Pack A's for sale on the stand along with ballasts as well as hopefully a few pack Bs, a glimpse at our next announcement and much more!

Hi Everyone, Below is some important information regarding the delivery of the cement bubbles. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. Cheers!

Hi Railer, Sorry, we didn't receive that email. We can arrange that for you. Thanks!

All will be revealed in due course JB

Sure if we stuck by that mantra we’d still be going to work on an ass and cart. the forum has become hugely improved as you will find in the coming days. This wonderful free resource, run and funded by Stephen has just become significantly better!