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Hidden behind a paywall unfortunately, but any of the coverage of the US-UK trade deal seems to suggest that it is light on actual content beyond favouring a few sectors/products like the US beef sector, US bio-ethanol and the small British car manufacturing industry that still exists. It is highly unlikely that the UK will follow the US lead in launching a tit for tat Tarriff war with China, and even if it did, it is unlikely the EU would follow suit and also ramp up duties on Chinese goods. The decision to close the IRM warehouse in Dublin wasn't one taken lightly, and a good bit of crunching the numbers and thought was put into it before wielding the axe. But the volume just doesn't exist in the Irish market to support the costs of running a second warehouse to handle maybe a few hundred orders in a good month. We are now a little over 3 months in, and TBH the benefits have already exceeded what we thought would be possible when we started the review. Not only have we reduced the cost base(which helps fund tooling for future IRM models) but we have also now given IRM exposure to our UK customer base, many of whom weren't aware of it before the products and updates appeared on the Accurascale website. In addition to that, the ability to buy both IRM and Accurascale products in the same order, and have them shipped VAT paid throughout the EU 27(which wasn't something we offered on Accurascale before now) is a big plus for anyone outside the UK and Ireland. At this stage, I can't see us ever going back to having an Irish based warehouse unless railway modelling overtakes the GAA as the most popular past time in Ireland. My contribution to this thread has probably been a bit lacking the last while, but given the relatively small market in the US for all things OO gauge, losing sleep over the US tarriffs has been low on my list of priorities. This was something else we have discussed internally, and have examined all the options between offering DDP(all taxes and duties paid) shipping to the US and just stopping shipping to the US altogether like some of our competitors have done. But ultimately, the logical middle ground of doing nothing is what makes the most sense. Our RoW customers having been buying on a DAP/VAT free basis for years, including our US ones, and this has not changed in anyway on our side. The only difference is that one market has decided to change their import rules, and impose punitive levels of duty on our products due to their country of origin(the reasons for which have been explained in depth and don't need repeating). It would be unfair for us to offer a reduction equal to the level of duty to customers in that market as @James Regan has suggested and not to our customers in other overseas markets including yourself @Mayneror even in our home markets.

I bet the guy who brought the gulaschkanone was popular

241s surely?

Nuclear deterrence? The cornerstone of US policy for the past 70odd year since they became the first and only nation to actually use a nuclear weapon in anger.. or is it only ok when certain people have a nuclear arsenal. I know Ukraine probably wish they had kept theirs instead of trading them in for a US security guarantee( the Budapest memorandum ) that wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.. Anyway, as expected this thread has gone south fairly quickly..

But in the context of wagons the Mogul Zinc ore wagons were of course railway owned rather than private owner.. One of the Limerick based meat companies had some PO vans in the early 20th century, but I can’t remember if it’s shaws or Denny’s.. Will have to dig out my copy of the W&LR book for the details

The max was 36 empties and trains of that length did run from Waterford back to Platin

Hi Paul, Hope this helps IRM1192, Orange Pack 1 25106, 25194 and 25191 IRM1193, Orange Pack 2 25115, 25076 and 25182 IRM1194, Orange Pack 3 25122, 25091 and 25167 IRM1195, Ivory Pack 1 25172, 25138 and 25088 IRM1196, Ivory Pack 2 25104, 25073 and 25161 IRM1197, Ivory Pack 3 25156, 25144 and 25116

It’s Irish alright, from the early 70s batch known as the tar jumbos.. Pictures of them are thin on the ground but @Mol_PMBdid post this a few months back

I had a few of the Atlas editions Stobart collection in boxes, so they have now been dug out and de-branded to make them a little more anonymous and suitable for use on an Irish layout. Unfortunately prototype pics for Irish on track plant and road railers seem to be thin on the ground

13th June 1997 at Cork, so towards the end of BELL.. Always good to have a colour picture to work from!

As a shipping line, it’s likely BELL only had a small number of tanks in their fleet dedicated to one or two customers.. Any pics I’ve seen seem to be leased tanks with a BELL decal added. The easiest one of these to model is the Transamerica 20ft and add a small BELL logo to it. There are pics of the tank on a train in Cork that I posted on here somewhere but I can’t find them right now despite trying a good number of searches! I will try dig out the original pic again.. Maybe @murphaphor @Weshty would take a look at doing a sheet of these? In the meantime, here are some pics from my album that I have saved from the excellent Waterford maritime history Facebook group

Afraid not, those sold out long ago.. Although @Gabhal Luimnighwas selling a pack a few weeks back, not sure if he still has it

That was quick, the sandwich I made after listing that stock isn’t even finished in the toastie sandwich maker and already the orders are coming in

Ebayers gonna eBay unfortunately.. And yes, as DJ mentions answering multiple queries on our support channels, often from the same person is very time intensive and does take some time to get back to people while trying to also resolve the issues with our 3PL. I am hoping to get to peoples tickets in the next few days as time allows By way of an update, we have now resolved the issue with the VAT set up, done a few tests orders to confirm it works, and customer orders are now shipping, hopefully with no one getting payment requests from DPD.. I am working on updating the tracking on people’s orders on their IRM accounts at the moment, and hope to have this done by lunchtime tomorrow.. The system should email the tracking info as normal once I update your order Sorry to the delay everyone, but hopefully the wagons are worth the wait..

Hi Dave, drop us a message on support and I will sort that for you

Not really, that was a one off that slipped out of the warehouse and I know why it happened. We are working on the VAT situation in the background and will only be shipping orders once we are happy that people won’t be getting VAT requests. Should be all in place in the next few days and then the floodgates from the warehouse will really open

Can you drop us a line on support, and I can sort that for you..

That was pre-emptive of course, if only we could get deliveries done that quickly!

Pics please for all us waiting on this side of the Irish Sea

Funnily enough, this was the shipment ahead of me being collected from the airport last summer when I was collecting an IRM shipment.. Not sure what type of grasshoppers the frogs inside would prefer, but they would probably struggle with one of @Mayners wetas

If the electrician leaves me any money when he’s finished ripping the guts out of the house, I would be interested in a pack or two(if they are still available for course) Would recommend sticking up a few pics, I have a LLNW pack and they are fantastic

We have a date set to move the stock out of Dublin warehouse but with the complexities of shipping to the U.K. and other overseas markets post brexit, we couldn’t risk having returns going back to the Dublin warehouse after we have de stocked it.. You would be surprised how many returns from the U.K. we have with people either thinking the DPD VAT request was a scam, that they have already paid the VAT, or that they bought from a U.K. warehouse etc or even just forgetting to pay the Vat on time etc. This means we had to end overseas shipping before domestic Irish shipping.. For our U.K. customers, you can still pre-order via Accurascale(ICRs, Park Royal’s and Hunslets at the moment) and we will also have the usual small surplus/ cancellations stock for the Esso tanks, H vans and Grains vans in about a week or two once we have cleared the pre-orders. We will also likely have a small amount of unsold stock from our Dublin warehouse to list on Accurascale, mainly bulleid opens and the last few magnesite packs.. You never know, we might even find a few packs of bulleid flats

Unusual that there would be two loaded liners there these days, are you sure it wasn’t the one liner split in two?

Pre-order prices are set in stone so nothing to sweat about there.. In case anyone is of a nervous disposition, I suggest they stop reading now, but the days of the three figure( that’s GBP too) super detailed coach are upon us, of course with rake discounts, loyalty etc, a Park Royal shouldn’t cost anywhere near that https://www.bachmann.co.uk/product/lnwr-50ft-arc-roof-third-corridor-lnwr-dark-claret-and-white/39-870 https://clarkrailworks.com/collections/quad-arts/products/ellis-clark-trains-oo-gauge-c2000b-quad-art-set-no-90-lner-teak-pre-order https://revolutiontrains.com/product/caroline-975025-inspection-saloon-oo-4mm/ https://railsofsheffield.com/blogs/news/new-bachmann-oo-gauge-mk2f-dbso

Hmm, there is one very notable omission from this thread(unless my sleep deprived mind has missed it)