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The lights are sublime on these. You can just picture them on a wintry Friday evening service to some far flung provincial town, packed with people glad of the warmth inside. Absolutely cracking models. I bought the two IR sets and one IE set (to get the buffet) with a view to selling the three black roofed IE ones on but I can't part with them now. I model 1995ish so the black roof is a no-go so I'll be respraying the roof in all over orange.

You should probably send them a support mail John as you are specifically asked not to combine pre-orders from different product lines in case one line arrives much later than the other and the first line is out of stock before the second line arrives. Stock is not held for a customer until all the pre-orders are in stock AFAIK so your open wagons might be sold to someone else if you don't sort it out with a request for support. There are only a handful left in stock so get your skates on

She looks right at home there Patrick!

Very informative chaps. Thanks!

Were these types of tanks also used for molasses traffic?

Shame they don't do the free entry for members of the public at the weekend anymore.

Where D's look like O's and R's look like A's

I got a dispatch notification email on Friday.

Hi all, I'm selling a rake (all 4 packs) of the original IRM Guinness flats in brand new in box condition. €100 per pack or all 4 packs for €380 plus insured and tracked postage (€16.50) Feel free to message me if you're interested.

And no finer layout to display them on!

Just got my shipping notification. The tension is building! Usually takes a few days for stuff to get here so I'll have to contain my excitement until then.

Symoba also makes NEM pockets and close coupling mechanisms for retrofitting older (design) models.

Hi all, If anyone has ordered the above with orange roofs that they prefer had black roofs then feel free to PM me about a swap. All the best.

Great stuff. The deliveries are coming thick and fast now!

Are these shipping already? I got an email to say my card has been charged for them.

Our town in Germany, not 20km from the capital city still has several unmetalled roads that get graded in spring before cratering and falling apart again a few weeks later! Ours was metalled for the first time in 2015!

Looking ace George!

Excellent price for anyone looking!

Mine arrived safe and sound this afternoon and lovely little things they are too. Can't wait for the re-run!

Tracking said DHL Express and the tracking number worked on the DHL Express Ireland website. Then I checked the DHL Express Germany website and it told me the parcel was to be handled by "regular" DHL, which is just the post office here and is the same carrier that delivers An Post parcels. The regular DHL website reported the parcel was "on its way to DHL" until this afternoon, when it changed and showed the parcel as being located in Bochum in the west of Germany. It'll probably be delivered on Saturday. That's 9 days in actual transit I believe, which is slower than an An Post or GLS parcel. The opens arrived via GLS in 4 days. I don't mind if a parcel takes a week or two weeks but I hope DHL Express aren't taking the Mick charging IRM for express delivery and then just pawning the parcels off to non-express carriers.

Mine were shipped DHL Express too but they handed them off to the parcels arm of the German post office (which is confusingly called DHL, without the Express. Deutsche Post owns DHL group). That was strange enough and I have never knowingly experienced that but DHL Express handing off to Royal Mail sounds even stranger as they are completely unrelated companies AFAIK.

I'd be in the market for the ITG livery A39 and for more green liveried ones.

My flying snail ones arrived today and I am well pleased with them I actually thought they were metal bodied! The pictures (like with A1) don't really do that metallic paint finish justice.

Sound!

My flats are showing a "weird" tracking number. It is neither An Post nor GLS. It shows the originating country as "Germany". It looks like a "Wish" tracking number where the seller bulk ships stuff from China to a warehouse in Germany, before it is re-labelled and handed over to DHL (which in Germany is just the post office's parcel delivery arm, not an express courier). The opens are being handled by GLS and look "normal". Strangely, when I track the parcel, it says it has been in transit for 14 days already, but that can't be right, can it? The IRM order page says it was fulfilled today!