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No offence to anyone, but based on factory schedules and shipping, etc, and the current stages of projects, stuff thats not designed yet / tooled would be at least 24 months away at the soonest, being realistic.

The forthcoming batch of Genesis coaches (including the irish ones) are underway at the factory and will be delivered. You should be able to log into the hattons website still and check your preorders. Exactly how or who delivers them is subject to change but they will come.

We’ll let the price be a surprise when they land

Quite. Hattons did £11m last year. Something like that newspaper report wouldn’t cause any concern.

To be fair to hattons they’re shutting down with great care and respect and everyone looked after. More than can be said of many companies when they get into trouble or see it coming.

Small perhaps, but utterly vital

Be good to know how much they are if they are that close!

I’d love to but at the moment we don’t have a timeline or even a confirmed price.

In terms of delivery, 2024 is scheduled to see the following delivered to customers, in no particular order: ICR Sets Bulleid Range (Flats, opens, perhaps some more) NIR Mk2b packs IRM Mk2c Packs Park Royals Murphy Models Mk2ds [Probably] Murphy Models 141/181 rerun (minimal details on the timeline just yet) Beyond that into 2025, 26, there are four Diesel Projects, Two steam, Three coach, four wagon / freight stock and some accessory projects 'actively' underway as well as some overlapping Accurascale ranges that will feature IRM elements, all of which will be revealed once they have reached an advanced point (around about when Engineering samples / prototypes (*EP's) are in hand during 2024.

Fair comment however we also changed to a model of launching things much later in the development cycle to avoid disappointment over timelines and delays. We have spent more in the last 18 months on IRM tools than we have since we started 9 years ago. But no ‘promises’ will be made, froth frothed or hints alluded to in future until we are ready. It seems we’re damned if we do and if we don’t

Telling you something is ‘probable’ is neither a promise nor any source of ‘disappointment’ tho how anything IRM produces could disappoint intrigues me. When we’re ready to deliver something we will announce it and then we will deliver it. We’ve never announced anything that’s not then been delivered.

We have tooled the CIE 20’ containers and also the weed spray 20’ so some irm 20’, 40’ and 45’ tainers and tankers are not out of the realms of probability.

Noel the ESU developed programmes were built by us from recordings made by us with ESU sound engineers onsite and developed and tweaked by us with the ESU team. They are also packed with features and functionality that are bespoke to the models. We will of course, as well as a new run of A’s as well as a whole list of powered and unpowered models to come. We might even let Noel buy one

Spectacular!!

Fran keeps a Hurley under the counter

It’s not heavily used but https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/classifieds/ Is completely free to place ads for sale and wanted

Were happy to use the UK outline proceeds to help grow irish modeling

Hectic couple of weeks with factory visits in china and Uk show season into Dublin show and warley at the weekend. Were catching up this week and will have photos and videos of the coaches soon as we can in advance of them landing with us.

The Z21 is compatible with almost all throttles, I use a Roco wifi throttle with mine (with a lovely knob) as well as physically plug in some old Lenz rotary dial controllers for the kids to train drive.

Get a Z21. Almost all the other options (bar maybe the ESU Ecos) are essentially junk from 2001

Accurascale is free on €100+ with DPD and €5.95 otherwise.

To be honest IRM has been loss making since day 1 lol.

At the moment there has been ‘noises’ that the locos will be early new year but as yet there are no confirmed prices let alone pictures or confirmed specifications so we can’t ‘upgrade’ those EOIs to preorders until we know at least how much We will absolutely update the moment we have anything concrete.

You should have a confirmation email when you ordered with a link?

https://www.accurascale.com/collections/gwr-7800-manor-class Next day DPD shipping - you will pay VAT on arrival, rather than on the website, but the exact same cost