New Announcement - Give Your Depot a Lift With CIE Forklifts

[Warbonnet]

We're upping our accessory game here at IRM, with the latest bit of added detail for your layouts in the form of a 1:76/OO scale twin pack of fork lift trucks, complete with CIE branding!

Perfect for your goods yard, station, motive power depot, unloading point, bus garage and more, this twin pack features slight detail differences to give added variety to your layout.

Priced at €12.95 for the twin pack, they will arrive in stock in mid June.

Twin pack of CIE Forklifts. 

- Set of two 1:76/4mm/OO fork lift trucks in orange livery with CIE roundels
- Posable forks for authentic depot, freight yard and station scenes
- Open cab and cabbed for variety
- Injection moulded plastic construction
- Perfect to add realism to your freight yard, goods depot, station or depot scenes

Pre-order yours by clicking here! 

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[murphaph]

Lovely things. Will they be available in IRM bricks and mortar retailers or online from IRM only?

[Warbonnet]

3 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Lovely things. Will they be available in IRM bricks and mortar retailers or online from IRM only?

At this moment in time it is direct only.

Cheers!

Fran

[spudfan]

Here is a bricks and motor supplier

Donegal Forklifts

[Edo]

Quick question - what era are we talking?.... as far back as 1970's?

Thanks

[Warbonnet]

Pretty much @Edo, palletisation began in the 1960s and of course CIE roundel lasted long after that. These ae a bit generic in tooling (we commissioned them from existing tooling) to add to scenes in Depots etc.

Cheers!

Fran 

[Edo]

Cheers Fran

[Bob229]

Another impressive addition, along with the loco crew for the Accurascale Deltic presume there might be a CIE loco driver down the line

[Blaine]

1 hour ago, Edo said:

Quick question - what era are we talking?.... as far back as 1970's?

Thanks

The one without the rollcage is definitely 70's era, as seen in this classic CIE video around the 3min mark

 

[Noel]

Great idea, nice models to add to any yard/depot scene. Tara Junction may end up buying your entire stock.   

A tad early for my era of loose coupled 2 axle non-container stock (ie pre-1974 when pallets become more widespread with the CIE wagon modernisation program). Clips of these lifts in action in vid below.

 

[jhb171achill]

From my own observations at the time, I think that things like this started appearing about 1973/4.

[Westcorkrailway]

use of forklifts in Albert quay cork. Loading brand new bogey fertiliser wagons (1975)

if (or when!) IRM do a re-run if these wagons. I’d be tempted to recreate a scene like this! 

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by Westcorkrailway

[Sean]

ordering some of these today, had been searching for somthing suitable for ages.

 

30 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

From my own observations at the time, I think that things like this started appearing about 1973/4.

how long was the cie roundel retained and when was it replaced by IR and points?

[jhb171achill]

56 minutes ago, Sean said:

ordering some of these today, had been searching for somthing suitable for ages.

 

how long was the cie roundel retained and when was it replaced by IR and points?

You’d have seen it about for some years afterwards, though none of those type of wagons lasted until IE days. The “Set of points” logo only appeared in 1987. The old CIE roundel would have been on some locomotives, though, well into the 1990s.

[Wexford70]

Can I ask are the  wheels and axels independent or are they all cast as one piece with the body?

[Westcorkrailway]

1 hour ago, Wexford70 said:

Can I ask are the  wheels and axels independent or are they all cast as one piece with the body?

I think there all the same cast by the looks of the photo, understandable for a 00 gauge forklift (ie they must be very small) 

[Broithe]

Will there be a sound chip?

[DJ Dangerous]

14 hours ago, Broithe said:

Will there be a sound chip?

What about non-sound functions like coasting and thrashing it when heavily loaded?

Seriously, great looking little yokes, have to have one or two!

[spudfan]

Reversing "beeps" ? The Mrs won't know whats going on in the attic.

[Broithe]

1 hour ago, spudfan said:

Reversing "beeps" ? The Mrs won't know whats going on in the attic.

I know someone whose wife has never seen his attic layout, and it's been going for over twenty years now.

She's seen photos and videos, but that's it.

I've told her he got those off the internet and he really has a distillery up there.

[spudfan]

Right I have been on to the insurance company to see where I stand with one of these. The usual..

"Where will it be kept overnight?"

"Do you require open driven? i.e. anyone between the ages of 25 and 70 years of age if they hold an appropriate licence.

I put the wife down as there are two of them.

So a heads up, check with your insurance company if you are thinking of splashing out.

Also there will be the annual CPC thing to keep up your entitlement to drive one of these....

[spudfan]

Speaking of forklifts, I wanted to be romantic and carry the wife across the threshold. Unfortunately the local CO-OP would not loan me their forklift.....

[Noel]

Thought they looked familiar. Discovered I had a BR pack in the cave. Bought a few years ago for Kingsbridge depot. Too modern for Gort.

[Sean]

ahh, i nearly bought those before i started my hyster kit bash.

[Warbonnet]

Hi everyone,

Half of the run is gone already. Thank you to everyone who has ordered so far!

Grab yours here: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/exclusive-irm-buses/products/cie-forklifts

Some pallet loads to go with them: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/loads/products/fertiliser-pallet-loads-6-pallets-of-fertiliser-bags

Cheers!

Fran 

[mmie353]

Any more beer kegs coming anytime soon?

[Warbonnet]

On 8/6/2022 at 6:51 PM, mmie353 said:

Any more beer kegs coming anytime soon?

Yes.  

[mmie353]

Awesome sir, looking forward to

[Dempsey]

What about 20ft CIE containers? 

[flange lubricator]

23 minutes ago, Dempsey said:

What about 20ft CIE containers? 

What about 10ft containers ?

[Sean]

Both needed

[BosKonay]

We did make 20’ CIE containers. 

[DJ Dangerous]

1 hour ago, BosKonay said:

We did make 20’ CIE containers. 

 

You sure did.

 

[Dempsey]

What ever measurement they were those ones were the ones I was thinking of. 

1 hour ago, BosKonay said:

We did make 20’ CIE containers. 

 

2 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

You sure did.

 

 

[Sean]

2 hours ago, Dempsey said:

What about 20ft CIE containers? 

 

2 hours ago, BosKonay said:

We did make 20’ CIE containers. 

What about MORE 20ft CIE containers?

 

I sadly only have a few a few

10 footers would be savage also.

Edited June 11, 2022 by Sean