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Yesterday we revealed the first decorated samples of our forthcoming HYA bogie coal hopper wagons to a fantastic reception. We also received decorated samples of our IIA biomass hoppers which we can reveal to you today! Our IIA biomass hopper features several notable changes over the HYA/IIA coal hopper. As well as the distinctive roof doors and operating equipment, it also has the WH Davis revised design of end plates with just seven wider vertical stiffeners versus 15 on the Romanian-built examples, plus door master controls and four additional small boxes per side that contain the magnetic switches on the real thing for door/hopper operation. We love our detail variation as you know and we do not cut corners, so this is catered for in these new wagons. As with our HYA Wagons, there are several areas that require tweaking including colours, addition of some printing missing on this sample and overall fit and finish. This will all be in place on the production models you receive when they arrive in stock. However, we are happy with the overall appearance and feel of the wagon, which captures the bulky nature of the prototypes perfectly. Production will commence in the coming weeks and we remain on course for a Q2, 2021 delivery, COVID 19 dependant of course. As with our HYA bogie hopper wagons, these biomass IIA's are another chapter in our "Powering Britain" series and are remarkable value at just £74.95 per twin pack, with no extra cost for Pack A which features a working tail lamp. Four packs are available to order with livery differences and different running numbers which can be pre-ordered now via your local stockist. Perfect stock for your GBRf Class 60 and 66 locomotives. You can also pre-order directly and avail of our bundle deal, offering even further value and savings! Click here to pre-order now! View the full article

The good news on our projects keeps flowing here at Accurascale as we bring you yet another project update! This time it's our HYA hopper wagons. If you're waiting on an IIA Biomass wagon update, we should have some very good news for you tomorrow, so keep an eye out for that. However, today we will focus on the HYA wagons in their original form. We received this hastily assembled sample in Fastline Freight livery from our factory last week. Unfortunately it got a bit battered and bruised in transit (as you can see by the tail lamp angle below!) so please excuse any scuff marks or missing parts. The assembly on the final product will be far superior and of the same quality you have come to expect from us. Some printing is also missing from this first sample which will also be added to the final models. Colours are not finalised, and we will be tweaking these in several areas. Overall though, we feel our model captures the heft and bulk of these interesting prototypes, and gives us a current model in our "Powering Britain" wagon series, with many Fastline Freight hoppers still operating on the current railway, intermingled with their GBRf counterparts. Our tweaks have been prepared and fed back to the factory for correction. Production is due to commence next month and delivery is slated for late Q2 2021. Ordered yours yet? Order yours from your local Accurascale stockist, or direct by clicking on this link. With a high specification including packs with working flashing tail lights at no extra cost as well as a bundle deal, these high quality, highly detailed model offer the best value for money when it comes to current scene bogie freight stock on the market. View the full article

Note: This is an Update for our Class 55 Deltic locomotives. If you are looking for an update on any of our other projects, please check out our "Latest News" tab on our website by clicking here. It's another landmark day here at Accurascale! Hot on the heels of announcing our first steam locomotive and celebrating our third birthday, we are now able to bring you an update on our Class 55 Deltics, with some very tasty livery samples for you to view. Before we go any further, please note that these are just samples, with some details missing, incorrectly applied, fuzzy paint in places, wonky engine room windows and more. These will all be corrected and addressed in the finished models from the factory that you will receive. We received these samples last month and assessment over colour, paint application as well as overall fit and finish of the models has already taken place ahead of manufacture. An array of body shells as well as completed models were received from our factory for assessment, covering the full release programme from original BR green all the way to the Porterbrook purple oddity 9016 “Gordon Highlander” each featuring distinctive details as per the prototypes these models are based on. A number of areas have been singled out for improvement, such as cantrail stripe placement where applicable, paint application and better masking, fitment of parts such as the engine room glazing, seam line reductions, inclusion of blanked off quarter panel windows where applicable, filler hatches and opaqueness of marker lights, among others! However, Accurascale is very happy with the shades of BR blue and green as well as warning panel yellows used, with a slight tweak to the shade of porterbrook purple required. Overall the heft, bulk and complex shape of these unique machines has been captured very well, featuring complex nose and bodyside contours as well as an array of detail areas, such as bogies, bodyside grilles, various exhaust panel configurations and fan grille variations. They also sound as good as they look, which you can see here from a previous update. We have even made some tweaks to the sound file since this video so it sounds even better, but you get the idea! Feedback from these samples has been sent back to the factory and production will now get underway next month, with a delivery date of late Q2/early Q3 2021 envisaged. Modellers can order any one of 17 different Deltics direct via our website, or one of six special editions via The Deltic Preservation Society, Locomotion Models and Rails of Sheffield. Prices are £160 for DC/DCC ready and £250 for DCC sound fitted. Pre-order yours direct early to avoid disappointment by clicking here. View the full article

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It looks like we took the hobby by surprise with the announcement of our OO gauge model of the Manors on Monday. We're delighted to bring the Accurascale experience to steam modellers for the first time. But, what is the background of these interesting locomotives? Our Senior Project Manager Gareth Bayer, with the assistance of Mike Romans, looks back at thee the history of these go-anywhere heroes of the Great Western Railway... Arguably one of the most attractive locomotives to emerge from Swindon Works, the Great Western Railway 78xx Manor class was the final 4-6-0 design to emerge during the Collett era. Introduced in 1938, the Manors were go-anywhere replacement for the 43xx Mogul and other older 4-4-0s and even re-used some components from withdrawn locomotives. With a new boiler design (Standard No.14) they were over 5 tons lighter than a Grange and nearly 13 tons lighter than a Hall with accompanying tender and their maximum 17t 5cwt axleload brought them nicely under the GWR’s ‘blue’ classification allowing them to be used on important weight restricted routes across the network. The first 20 locomotives, Nos. 7800-7819, were delivered between January 1938 and February 1939, and they were named after notable Manor houses or estates within the GWR’s operational sphere. A second order of 20 locomotives was clearly in consideration at the time as the first batch were honoured alphabetically from A-H, although 7800 was actually delivered with the name Torquay Manor due to effective lobbying by MP and railway enthusiast Sir Francis Leyland-Barrett! The second set of names released in 1939 would have covered Manors in the H-W series but the order was cancelled following the outbreak of World War II. Initially deployed to a diverse selection of sheds, including Banbury, Bath Road, Croes Newydd, Neyland, Oxley, Shrewsbury, St Philips Marsh, Westbury, and even Old Oak Common (albeit quickly transferred away), they were regulars on freight, express freight services such as milk and fish, and passenger duties, in Great Western days with only the South West not seeing Manors often, and even then they were not unknown visitors on summer Saturdays. The class was particularly common on key ‘blue’ routes such as the challenging Banbury-Cheltenham section on trains like the heavy Newcastle-Swansea ‘Ports-to-Ports’ express and London-Bristol semi-fasts via Devizes. In 1940 the Cambrian line between Oswestry/Whitchurch and Aberystwyth/Pwllheli was reclassified from ‘yellow’ to ‘blue’ and sporadic Manor use began from the end of that year. From 1943 Oswestry gained its first examples, while another pair moved to Aberystwyth (outbased from Machynlleth) in 1946, and the class’ association with this beautiful route only increased from there, with every Manor being a regular at some point by the end of their lives. At the onset of nationalisation the 20 Manors were principally allocated to Banbury and Bristol and Cambrian line sheds, with single examples dotted around the Midlands and other parts of Wales. A requirement for further locomotives with a low axleload resulted in the recently formed British Railways ordering ten new Manors from Swindon and Nos. 7820-7829 were delivered between November and December 1950. Just like the first order, the new engines were all partnered with secondhand tenders, usually Churchward 3,500gal types of various vintages, with at least one of the first 20 gaining a tender dating from 1903. Curiously only one name, Ramsbury Manor, survived from the originally planned second batch. The order was also of note because of the Manors’ infamous reputation as poor steamers, not solved until they were redraughted from 1952, after which they became firm favourites with railwaymen and enthusiasts alike. By early 1951, with all 30 locomotives in traffic, over a third of the class was now based in Wales, with Chester, Plymouth (Laira), Newton Abbot and St Blazey all receiving their first Manor allocations after 1948. During BR days, Cardiff (Canton/East Dock), Didcot, Penzance, Reading, Swindon, Truro and Tyseley, all acquired Manors for long periods, with the west of England examples famously being used to assist larger 4-6-0s on heavy summer trains which were often loaded to 15 coaches. No. 7804 was even painted unlined green for its regular duties on the ‘Cornish Riviera’ between Newton Abbot and Plymouth. The Manors were associated with other named trains, the most famous being the ‘Cambrian Coast Express’ to Aberystwyth and the ‘Pembroke Coast Express’ to Pembroke Dock. As well as GWR metals, the class could be spotted on other regions with early visits to Nottingham and Portsmouth all being recorded for posterity. From September 1939 they were common on the Southern working passenger services between Reading and Redhill, a duty that was still a regular Manor turn well into the 1960s, while the war years saw them regularly taking trains direct to Southampton and other Southern destinations, which continued into BR days. Laira-based members of the class, usually in spotless condition, were also used on the ‘exchange’ workings between Plymouth and Exeter, a wartime innovation that saw GWR locomotives working the Southern route and vice-versa for crew familiarisation, that lasted until the end of steam. The BR period also saw them visit the London Midland Region from time to time, particularly on the Shrewsbury-Crewe route. The longevity of the class was legendary, possibly related to their relative youth and near domination of services on former Cambrian lines, especially after the exodus of Manors from the West Country after dieselisation. The first withdrawals didn’t take place until 1963 – long after other 4-6-0s had suffered inroads – with the retirement of 7809 in April, while the next example to be removed from traffic didn’t take place until a year later. By the start of 1965, their final year of operation, some 19 were still working, 11 of which were nominally LMR engines due to 1963 regional boundary changes, with the final pair, Gloucester Horton Road’s 7808 and 7829, being condemned that December. Fortunately nine were preserved, with 7808 being purchased in working order directly from BR. This ran charters in private ownership on the national network between 1966 and 1979, its most famous appearance being the Rainhill ‘Rocket 150’ Cavalcade in August 1975. The remainder were all saved for posterity after a trip to Woodham Brothers’ scrapyard at Barry, with 7802, 7812 and 7819 all having been main line registered for periods after restoration. Can you find room for a Manor in your collection? Place your pre-order via your local stockist, or direct with a £30 deposit. Prices are £169.99 for DC and DCC ready, and £259.99 for DCC sound fitted. Due in Q4 2021. There are ten different locomotives to choose from, covering the wide variety of liveries these pretty engines carried throughout their careers. Click here to browse the range and place your order. View the full article

Oh don't worry yea are next

... and in a recent interview with Jenny Kirk, he said that Hornby wouldn't do a '37 for example' when there was a super one on the way from another party.

Our goal Is that no one in the the UK or EU will pay any nasty customs or vat. Anyone that’s had a ballast or gypsum pack for example will have noted in came from our Dublin warehouse. Deliveries are also continuing from our UK warehouse and we are VAT/export/EORI/UTR registered in both

More than..... Were gonna need a bigger boat!

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and that's before even talking about the Mk2b or c

Correct. The liners sold out entirely in a few days.

and Gone!

Lots of small little changes

Updated now - https://irishrailwaymodels.com/

Or just buy from the several MM stockists in Ireland??

I'm working on an upgrade akin to what we've done at https://accurascale.co.uk which will make life easier.

You'll need to ensure the parcel, going into the UK, has a valid customs paperwork / invoice on the outside, showing the VAT paid and full details.

Then you’ll pay UK Vat on the original purchase then Irish Vat on import.

There are.

You guys don't miss much https://irishrailwaymodels.co.uk is online, for now just for preorders as we finalise logistics, but you can purchase in GBP, at 20% HMRC VAT with zero concerns about import/export/brexit or such. Once we nail down logistics over the coming days we'll grow out the in stock items and other lines. Orders placed previously will be supplied no problems from the .ie / com website, again, VAT paid, and customers can choose if they prefer to shop on one side or the other as suits. We'll have more official news in the coming days as Brexit settles with carriers and we can plan in stock supply better, any questions let us know.

If anyone else is seeing oddness let me know. Perhaps it’s distance? The servers are in Dublin.

No strain or errors on the server side. Perhaps general internet pressures?

Would you model in 21mm if RTR track and models were readily available?