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OK, Thank you Alan

Hi, will IRM venture into Park Royal/Laminate production in future years or is the only option to be IFM? It would be great to know some medium long term plans (presuming all going well) for budgeting purposes/ happy thoughts, i suppose i mean by that Sulzers, E Class as well as the carriages listed above.

Yes, Lime Green is correct. Check the IRRS archive page, it has a shot of one in its title picture

That would be brilliant, Thank you Fran/IRM

The Tara Mines wagons look absolutely brilliant. Well done. I am hoping that the original versions in blue will be released in the not too distant future?

Would be great to see 001 in Supertrain livery. I would love to see several more in this livery as a number of goods/ freight sets alone are almost specific to this loco/livery: Fertilizer, Taras: original blue & 2nd roof Tara's, Ammonia, various mineral trains, early Liners (with baby GMs), as well as many passenger hauled ( esp Suburban) trains. 018 is going to be running a lot of train sets from the early 70s to mid 80's at the same time!!! Also, 018 and A23R will be the only two models to share the same design configuration?, i.e. redesigned roofs with original windows/cab lamps/no caws/ snatchers, hopefully more class numbers will be produced once the design has been approved? I would certainly buy four or five more in this important and long lasting livery/ configuration.

Hi Mark, how did the MKIIs turn out and can you recommend a good weatherer?

Surprised to see the yellow-pannelled MV is the slowest seller. I think it will look the best upon production and will be subsequently much sought after, after it's release; it's main problem will be rolling stock availability/suitability. Mixed goods for now. Hopefully Park Royals/ Tin Vans to come...ps IRM, would look great on a future release of B113/4 or on the C Class

You could introduce Mandy to one of the 60 beauties above but we're going off track here

A1 (new)

Some of these images may be useful, they are the running nos. of MVs being produced.

Nora was 053, sorry!

Well i was in the cab of 001 in Heuston in the 80s and i think she was 'Nora'. Painted script between or just above the windows. Wonder if someone has the names of all 60?

Hi Railer. I think A11 may be an exception re green side buffer beam. Any others i've seen were black. See back cover image on Carse's book on MVs of A46 at Amiens Street. Back in black

Hi there, will there be further CIE 001 Supertrain releases in the future. 018 looks to be the only one of the 17 announced that would run with early Liner/ Tara Mines/Fertilizer and Ammonia so a minimum of 4 would be req'd. I can double order the same running number but 4 x 018 is a bit conspicuous. Well done on the release announcement - they look absolutely brilliant.

Fran, i think it would be interesting from a marketing point of view to see what the share of interest is at this stage now that IRMs products are up and running like a Jamaican sprinter. I certainly was never polled originally, and as IRM have referred to, a number of people have bought IR/IE because they thought they'd be the only options available and purchased superb models which they could amend - is this giving a false notion of the market share? Some peoples' golden era was the last years of very battered diesel/ freight motion in Ireland, aka IE but please bear in mind many precious memories preceeded these times for those a bit older: branch lines, signal boxes, CIE innovation in design (which it gets very little credit for) before sterility set in. IE & IR were patch ups of what was left, a few white lines added to cover over in many cases vandalism, wear and tear and little maintenance/ neglect/ cost cutting etc. When i saw the advert in the paper splitting CIE into different entities in the 1980s, like the railway system at the time, the present and future died for me railway-wise. I think it would be worth while trying a poll on a as not yet produced model on this site to see what would be peoples true 1st choice, e.g. era of A or C Class people would want. Many have bought ballasts, plough vans etc now and have either modified or do not have the money to spend again on a similiar item. This is fuelling the (in my view) misconception that CIE era lags behind IR & IE in interest. I also know of other modellers who do not use or have moved off this ( in my view excellent & informative) website due to personality issues etc who would collect CIE, there may be far more support out there than you assume but you have not heard their voices? Alan

Ok, Thank you.

Would it not make sense if you producing in volumes of 500 to split as follows: IE 200, IR 200 and CIE 100?

Hi there, in light of Irish Railway Models announcing CIE ballast hoppers in 2019, i am looking to exchange my four unopened IE/IR sets of ballast hoppers for 3 sets of CIE bubbles; any three from sets B, D, E or F required, multiples are ok but must be in as new condition. IRM still have some of these in stock; by buying 3 sets of bubbles from them you'd be getting four brand new sets of ballast hoppers in return. If you know of anyone who missed out on the ballasts, please let them know, Thank you, Alan