New IRM Announcement This Weekend! What Could it Be?

[Warbonnet]

NEW IRM ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEKEND!

It's the week of the biggest event of the Irish railway modelling calendar, the three day Dublin show. This bank holiday weekend, South Dublin Model Railway Club are our hosts at Blackrock College, where there will be a feast of model railways for all the family.

We will be there, as ever, with some special offers, our latest free catalogues and we will reveal the first samples of our ICR 22000 class rail cars, and our park royal coaches.

Not only that, but we will have an all new announcement of our latest railway item with a sample to show you all. It is in the pic below. Feel free to guess what it is, but it earmarks a whole new range for us that will bring joy to many!

Look out for more info on what to expect on our stand during the week and feel free to widely speculate below in the comments on what we are revealing this weekend

See you there!

Fran 

[Flying Snail]

You're just toying with us now Fran ... it's not a set of mark 3's anyway judging by how dark the photo is, but beyond that I'm stumped 

[Sean]

Enhance.

[DJ Dangerous]

J15?

Any chance of even doubling the resolution???

[Horsetan]

It's probably a pixellated registration plate from some road traffic offence....

[Westcorkrailway]

1 hour ago, Warbonnet said:

NEW IRM ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEKEND!

It's the week of the biggest event of the Irish railway modelling calendar, the three day Dublin show. This bank holiday weekend, South Dublin Model Railway Club are our hosts at Blackrock College, where there will be a feast of model railways for all the family.

We will be there, as ever, with some special offers, our latest free catalogues and we will reveal the first samples of our ICR 22000 class rail cars, and our park royal coaches.

Not only that, but we will have an all new announcement of our latest railway item with a sample to show you all. It is in the pic below. Feel free to guess what it is, but it earmarks a whole new range for us that will bring joy to many!

Look out for more info on what to expect on our stand during the week and feel free to widely speculate below in the comments on what we are revealing this weekend

See you there!

Fran 

Grey, with that silloette…it can’t be a steam engine can it?

[Westcorkrailway]

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

J15?

Any chance of even doubling the resolution???

I think the wifi is slow over there in the canaries because I can see clearly that it’s 4k 1080p crisp photograph of a Cork and Macroom Railway bus

[DJ Dangerous]

22 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I think the wifi is slow over there in the canaries because I can see clearly that it’s 4k 1080p crisp photograph of a Cork and Macroom Railway bus

Unless you're in Morocco or Miami, you mean "down there", not " over there"...

Are you seeing the pixels in 4K or in 1080, because they ain't the same thing!

[Louth]

C Class?

[Flying Snail]

Fran said 'it earmarks a whole new range for us that will bring joy to many!' and he called it a 'railway item' ... so it's different and it could be anything, including non-rolling stock - the much anticipated foot bridge or some other scenic item perhaps? 

[exciecoachbuilder]

28 minutes ago, Louth said:

C Class?

C class would be great, ammonia tankers would be nice too. 

[flange lubricator]

44 minutes ago, exciecoachbuilder said:

C class would be great, ammonia tankers would be nice too. 

And bogie bulk cement 

[tonybonneyba]

Signals?

[Darrman]

It's definitely black. Do I see two pixels of a chimney? What's the yellow pixel?

I'll guess the whole new range is steam - it's definitely not a Dart. As for which steam engine this would be, I'm going to predict No. 90. It's preserved, and I'm definitely not biased because it travelled down to West Cork at all.

[Broithe]

20 minutes ago, Darrman said:

It's definitely black. What's the yellow pixel?

 it's definitely not a Dart. 

It could be a triple bluff - a Guinness DART.

[Patrick Davey]

Still thinking RPSI steam - I suggested before that it could  be 171, with IRM supporting the restoration of the locomotive by the RPSI…. could a model perhaps be made available in different liveries…. including black……

[GSWR 90]

No guesses as to what loco I want it to be 

[Westcorkrailway]

3 minutes ago, GSWR 90 said:

No guesses as to what loco I want it to be 

GSWR no.100

[jhb171achill]

Hydrogen powered 071

Something MGWR

Something NIR

131

Thats my guesses…..

 

 

[airfixfan]

The Fintona Tram?

[StevieB]

C/201 class in its many guises and liveries.

Stephen

[Branchline121]

Looks like the much anticipated turf burner to me!

[Georgeconna]

"We will also have original tara mines bogies lose, sold as seen for €2 each!"    I take it that  these the Squeaky ones?

 

[Sean]

thats literally only a photo of half an item, that or its the detailing pack from said item or somthing silly like that  

[raymurph]

On 23/10/2023 at 3:54 PM, exciecoachbuilder said:

C class would be great, ammonia tankers would be nice too. 

C class would be great but I doubt it. Maybe a steamer?

[DJ Dangerous]

15 hours ago, Sean said:

thats literally only a photo of half an item, that or its the detailing pack from said item or somthing silly like that  

 

My first thought was an army tank on a flat wagon!

 

16 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

"We will also have original tara mines bogies lose, sold as seen for €2 each!"    I take it that  these the Squeaky ones?

 

 

Never mind that, what happened to the wagons that ran on them???

[Sean]

10 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

My first thought was an army tank on a flat wagon!

On a more serious note,I see CIE Grey(or an engineering sample), and its a whole new range, so some sort of steam is highly possible.

 

however i also see a black buffer beam and a little hump on top so it could just as easily be some sort of 4w tank car at an unflattering angle.

 

ALSO

 

Were we not promised some sort of elusive foot bridge way back when? squint or youll miss it  

[DJ Dangerous]

I'm quite sure that in a previous post, we were told that there would be AT LEAST one announcement, so who knows, could be a J15 towing oil wagons under a footbridge.

17 odd hours to go, roll on half twelve!

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/blogs/announcements

 

 

[Westcorkrailway]

12 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I'm quite sure that in a previous post, we were told that there would be AT LEAST one announcement, so who knows, could be a J15 towing oil wagons under a footbridge.

17 odd hours to go, roll on half twelve!

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/blogs/announcements

 

 

I remember at last years show being in the line with a member of this forum watching hooded men fly out the door with bags full of dickie taras and logging on here to find what the announcement was. 

[enniscorthyman]

HOBS or a C class

[DJ Dangerous]

2 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I remember at last years show being in the line with a member of this forum watching hooded men fly out the door with bags full of dickie taras and logging on here to find what the announcement was. 

 

Joke's on them. None of them took the time to open the boxes. All of those dickie Tara's were bogie-less, and they'll have to come back this weekend to buy the bogies.

[DJ Dangerous]

Twelve odd hours to go. Sweating and biting my nails already.

[DJ Dangerous]

Ten and three quarter hours to go...

 

 

[Sean]

Riveting stuff

[DJ Dangerous]

3 hours ago, Sean said:

Riveting stuff

Never "saw" that one coming.

Four hours to go!