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Good point!. These look like demountable fertilizer wagons on 4w flats, only that demountable section being a 'red oxide'

This is what they appeared like when originally put into traffic. If I recall correctly this was posted by @Mayner who makes the point that the sides in particular were haphazardly maintained as long as they held the fertilizer pallets in position. We discussed this on one of the fertilizer threads a couple of years ago.

A couple of thoughts to get the ball rolling although I'm sure you'll get a lot of insight from other modelers here. Bigger things to decide on might be what is your preferred gauge in the longer term. You're young now but in a few years you'll likely be employed with an improved income to expand your collection/layout, resite your layout or expand your shed. Will you be in your present location or likely to move a lot for work i.e. will portability of the layout be important to you? Do you prefer to scratch build everything or prefer mostly ready to run? Do/will you have the skills, eyesight, dexterity, time and motivation to do so? Chances are there is a lot less available in 2mm than 4mm depending on what your modeling interest is. If you decide to change will you be able to recoup some/most of your present investment by selling off your present stock? Irish stock might sell pretty well on here, rest on here on on eBay. Adverts.ie etc depending on where you're based

That would be telling .... A12 really looking well there

Is the calculation for the 8 sets correct? Should the SKU for Pack H be IRM1032BX-H? Been waiting on these so just about to order. But even more interested to see if the new announcements will provide any additional variety. Well done! Those of us who purchased the original ballast wagons but did not use the redemption code yet, will IRM still honor that? Those modelers in the US have noticed that while almost any purchase in Ireland has free shipping and minimal cost in the entire EU, the standard shipping rate to all our various zip codes has increased. @BosKonay

Quick lookthru Flickr seems to indicate that the color spring detail seems to show up on many things from 62' flat to bogie cement wagon anywhere from 2011-2014 but it's harder to make out for certain if the bogies themselves are black under the grime. Specifically referring to 42' flats at least as early as 2015

The color detail on the springs etc. is definitely a more modern thing. When is that photo from ? @Rob So just from the point of view of IRM who certainly do some research on their models, they're only used on the spoil wagons, but also the red oxide Taras (no sign of blue yet) so I guess these are being depicted in a much more modern era.

This is a great watch! While listening to the commentary on the main subject matter is what is in the ensuing train or background. Equally interesting when you get near the 45 min mark are the sheer number of laminate such as composites, converted brake seconds, side corridor seconds running summer specials on the Cork-Youghal line. While I appreciate these are secondary stock the still operating in some volume in BnT in this video c. 1974 per the presenter Ciaran Cooney. What I didn't really expect to see was several GSR stock with running boards in BnT livery in that decade! Some other oddities of interest might be the gas tank drawn by a green A Class at 12:49. One of these has been modeled by a site member for use behind model steam traction but interesting to see it in in several places behind a prototypical diesel A class

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Agree plus pallet vans and a whole host of other stuff, but there is a serious lack of appropriate coaching stock from 1950s that lasted right thru into the 1980s

Is that a 2162-71 series? Very much needed to follow the early As in silver and green liveries. @jhb171achillIncidentally what did a 1960s carriage wash consist of? Bucket of water and a yard brush from a platform?

IRMs first GSWR item, now we're getting somewhere. I'll take a couple

Dave, you might get more informative responses by moving this portion to the 20 and 40ft container thread to tbh. I have a general working knowledge but not enough to venture years when they would have been introduced, common in traffic and being phased out

I think I know 4 lads that have a great CAD of an A class

The layout would have to be small, or you, young If you did you’d increase the numbers modeling 21mm by 20% or so (a commonly quoted anecdote on this forum) That’s an idea that more than one of us has had, for instance a pop in rtr 21mm commonwealth bogie Agree with all of what you have said, and I’d need that much track also. I have yet to see someone make that much from scratch in 21mm, yet many replies intimating that anything is possible and some modelers are just lazy. Some modelers may just have real jobs and that’s the whole reason for needing something rtr in volume. There are several Irish prototypical points, the express points would be very large on most layouts but would look awesome. Again focusing on the shorter ones would suit many modeller with some flexitrack. Several years ago IRM had no intention of touching this (so definitely no one else would) and I’m open to correction but it doesn’t seem that that has changed at all. I do like this as a potential way forward if it commercially available with rtr frog available.

Only one reason to delist a building, .... greasy palms

Ah jayzus, it's no wonder there's a shortage of buffer beam enhancements and horns!

The home page talks of 4mm and 7m scales but it seems to me that all the Irish stuff is probably 7mm, correct?

I think that you can take it that Full IR means fully lined/fully repainted/re-liveried IR livery and anything else is a transitional livery with the 'temporary' rebranding with new logos on a precedent livery

Dave, you've been in the sun too long

It seems to me that the UK system has a little more practical import as there are models available for most periods, some more than others obviously (full disclosure, I no longer have any real interest in British modeling for the last 20 years) In an Irish setting most of the models being produced in recent times are mostly 1970s onwards with earlier eras substantially under represented or not at all, and I don't really see that changing. Sure there are possibilities to create many things when resorting to scratch building or kits, I understand that. The pre-1970s A Class are being produced solely (thank the Lord!) as a result of being part of a lot with the later variant A classes. As for Irish track no classification required there at all. I think that most important thing to most modelers (well to me anyway) is to have as much information on the prototype that the product represents, years of service in particular and specific details seen on the model (which is often taken for granted by the mature gricer but may not be ever even spotted by a newbie who buys over the counter (virtual or otherwise))

I haven't been on the site much for the last few months so apologies for such a late comment on these lovely photos. I don't believe that I have seen the bogies TPO in the silver livery before at least not in color. Smashing shot! This appears to be one of the 1906-7 GSWR-built tricomposite brake coaches with clerestory roof built for the Cork-Rosslare boat train. Its sister 861 is preserved by the RPSI and all were listed as secondary stock by February 1961 only 4 months after this photo.

Interest in one or maybe 2

Not if they won't do it in 21mm gauge, that looks to be the 16.5mm version