Warbonnet Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 Merry Christmas from the IRM team! It's been another exciting year for us (which we will detail in our review of the year next week) and we hope you are all settling down to have an excellent and relaxing festive season with your family, friends, and of course playing trains too! However, we couldn't let Christmas pass without bringing some more cheer, so we are offering a first look at decorated samples of our lovely IR and IE Mark 2C coaches. These beauties were announced at the Dublin show in October and decorated samples arrived with us last week for inspection. As you can see, they're shaping up very nicely indeed. With an amazing spec of highly detailed interiors, interior lighting, correctly gauged bogies, a wealth of separately applied parts, realistic close coupling and more, these will be the perfect passenger stock for your layout. They have also been hugely popular on pre-order, so if you fancy some, make sure you get your order in soon. Delivery is slated for Q3 2023 and you can pre-order right here! View the full article 10 6 Quote
Flying Snail Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 Looking great - can't wait to get my hands on these. Happy Christmas to all at IRM, and thanks for all you do for the hobby! 1 1 Quote
Bob229 Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 Progressing very nicely another top class model, looking forward to the new releases next year Happy Christmas to all the IRM team and best wishes for the New Year 1 1 Quote
murphaph Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 They look lovely. Are any of the IR ones going to have silver window frames? 1 Quote
John-r Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 Stunning, another winner, well done and a very Happy Christmas to you and your family's 1 1 Quote
geraghtyg Posted December 24, 2022 Posted December 24, 2022 They look stunning!!!! Fantastic job. Is the seating 2+1 or is it just the way I'm looking at them? I only ever remember 2+2 seating (with 1st class legroom) when I travelled on any of those ex 1st class carriages. 1 Quote
Warbonnet Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 Hi everyone, Hot on the heels of our NIR Mark 2 coaches arriving in stock, the factory has sent us the production samples of our IR and IE Mark 2b and Mark 2c coaches for us to assess. We thought we'd give you a wee teaser look and fill it with plenty of atmosphere while we were at it... Look out for a full update including delivery schedule in the coming weeks, but these aren't too far away now. Get your pre-order in while you still can: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/mark-2-coaches/availability_pre-order Cheers! Fran 7 4 Quote
BosKonay Posted February 9 Posted February 9 You can just about see the top of the loo through the frosted glass Quote
DJ Dangerous Posted February 9 Posted February 9 22 minutes ago, BosKonay said: You can just about see the top of the loo through the frosted glass Creep! Wait, are they the models or the real life coaches in the pic? 3 Quote
John-r Posted February 9 Posted February 9 21 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said: Creep! Wait, are they the models or the real life coaches in the pic? Brilliant DJ, only you would Get away with it and lads these coaches look absolutely stunning as well. 1 1 Quote
ttc0169 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Lovely looking models and having the correct style of lighting is a bonus, Badly needs an EGV to complete the correct formation….. 2 2 Quote
DJ Dangerous Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Has any thought been given to the possibility of selling the wider bogies and lighting kits as IRM / Accurascale accessory packs? Four bogies as one accessory pack and two lighting kits as a seperate pack, maybe? Would be lovely to be able to upgrade the older Bachmann Mk2A's to run with these. 1 1 Quote
Ironroad Posted February 9 Posted February 9 4 minutes ago, ttc0169 said: Lovely looking models and having the correct style of lighting is a bonus, Badly needs an EGV to complete the correct formation….. Wasn't it a Dutch Van 3 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said: Has any thought been given to the possibility of selling the wider bogies and lighting kits as IRM / Accurascale accessory packs? Four bogies as one accessory pack and two lighting kits as a seperate pack, maybe? Would be lovely to be able to upgrade the older Bachmann Mk2A's to run with these. Absolutely, while perhaps not to the same standard those Mk2As are essential to completing a prototypical rake. 1 1 Quote
ttc0169 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 4 hours ago, Ironroad said: Wasn't it a Dutch Van Absolutely, while perhaps not to the same standard those Mk2As are essential to completing a prototypical rake. Yes-former Dutch SHVs converted to EGVs-4601,4602 & 4603. 2 Quote
Horsetan Posted February 10 Posted February 10 22 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Has any thought been given to the possibility of selling the wider bogies and lighting kits as IRM / Accurascale accessory packs? Four bogies as one accessory pack and two lighting kits as a seperate pack, maybe? Would be lovely to be able to upgrade the older Bachmann Mk2A's to run with these. Aren't the Bachmann / Murphy mounting points supposed to be a bit different to the IRM ones? Not sure a direct swap is possible. Quote
DJ Dangerous Posted February 10 Posted February 10 1 hour ago, Horsetan said: Aren't the Bachmann / Murphy mounting points supposed to be a bit different to the IRM ones? Not sure a direct swap is possible. Well, I know of somebody who has some of MY coaches to play around with, so maybe we'll find out how interchangeable the bogies really are in time... Quote
Sean Posted February 10 Posted February 10 The bogies are screwed on to both coaches but i couldnt be arsed taking them off to mine to see if they interchange Quote
Popular Post Warbonnet Posted February 16 Author Popular Post Posted February 16 Hi everyone, We have done up a wee formation guide on these to give you some idea on traction and set up! Cheers! Fran 16 2 5 3 Quote
NIRCLASS80 Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Would love to be ordering some of these but still waiting for NIR ones! Quote
John-r Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Very handy formation guide, one question though, what's the little carriage behind the locos and sometimes at the rear . Fantastic looking coaches lads,great work. Dutch van soon hopefully. 1 Quote
Flying Snail Posted February 16 Posted February 16 This is really helpful. It would be great to see more of these guides being produced. Also - Dutch Van. Come on IRM, you know you want to!!! 2 Quote
ttc0169 Posted February 16 Posted February 16 1 hour ago, John-r said: Very handy formation guide, one question though, what's the little carriage behind the locos and sometimes at the rear . Fantastic looking coaches lads,great work. Dutch van soon hopefully. That’s the EGV-essential for providing lighting and heating to the set. 4 1 1 Quote
Georgeconna Posted February 16 Posted February 16 2 hours ago, Warbonnet said: Hi everyone, We have done up a wee formation guide on these to give you some idea on traction and set up! Cheers! Fran Nice one, suggest this on FBI think a week for so ago! 1 Quote
Bob229 Posted February 16 Posted February 16 The lighting and interior of these look excellent 1 Quote
Robert Shrives Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Brilliant and using the formation guide just shows the marketing ploy for the gen brake, I look forward to buying 2 of these, bound to happen as I was about to add some white lines on a model tomorrow, having gained a free day. I suspect the high spec model will come with a sound facility built in even on DC and perhaps a wand switched taillamps - plug in accessory , but DCC version will have guards conversations, door slams and gen start up stuff. Now for a smoke unit!! - that can be retro into the new NIR stock and the soon to be announced MK1 EGV sets ..... April announcement dates I guess. Robert 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Saw a whole rake of the NIR "wasp-stripe" livery ones at Malahide Model Railway Museum today, behind a blue 112. They look absolutely outstanding. 4 Quote
DiveController Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Would be handy to have one for mainline and secondery route NIR stock also Quote
Robert Shrives Posted February 17 Posted February 17 14 hours ago, DiveController said: Would be handy to have one for mainline and secondery route NIR stock also I guess waiting on announcing original livery/ Hunslet project, well hopefully. Robert 2 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted February 17 Posted February 17 14 hours ago, DiveController said: Would be handy to have one for mainline and secondery route NIR stock also Indeed - I am sure that will follow! 1 Quote
Horsetan Posted February 17 Posted February 17 According to the GLS parcel tracking, the RPSI set I ordered has made it to Britain, but then the trail goes a bit cold. I have a Parcelforce track number which claims the parcel was subjected to an attempted delivery on Valentine's Day, and then left at the local post office. My friend and I went to that post office today, only to be told that the parcel was not there!! Hope it hasn't been stolen.... 1 Quote
DiveController Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Sign me up x3, then there are liveries, here we go… (well hopefully) 5 hours ago, Robert Shrives said: I guess waiting on announcing original livery/ Hunslet project, well hopefully. Robert Quote
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