New Murphy Models 071 Class Locos Likely in 2024

[DJ Dangerous]

11 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

I think this might have been associated with the migration from IRM to AS website? 

Possible, but we’re splitting hairs over the semantics of remove vs. choose to omit.

[BosKonay]

We’d certainly hope we keep updates clear and frequent and the status page tracks all updates. In the case of the 071 there was no data so we felt it not suitable to leave it on the status page. If that changes we can add it back in 

[DJ Dangerous]

8 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

We’d certainly hope we keep updates clear and frequent and the status page tracks all updates. In the case of the 071 there was no data so we felt it not suitable to leave it on the status page. If that changes we can add it back in 

That makes sense…

No, wait…

That “tracks”…

[Blaine]

On 1/7/2025 at 11:27 AM, DJ Dangerous said:

Not really the best comparison. You don’t need to buy track to run your PlayStation on, nor stock for it to haul. You buy a loco and you’ll want to run it now, pulling a train. You buy a games console bundle and that’s it, ready to go out of the box.

Agree on the “don’t miss out” philosophy regarding the likes of the Hunslets and 800’s. I assume that both are being produced in quantities far lower than the A Class.

 

Well you need to buy a decent tv/monitor, maybe a gaming chair and a good internet connection......

Its one of those arguments, different levels you can take things to

[DJ Dangerous]

21 minutes ago, Blaine said:

Well you need to buy a decent tv/monitor, maybe a gaming chair and a good internet connection......

Its one of those arguments, different levels you can take things to

Still way off.

Most people already have a TV and chair at home. Buying a gaming monitor and a gaming chair would be way above the norm.

There’s no comparison between a single loco and a gaming console, sorry.

[Blaine]

17 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Still way off.

Most people already have a TV and chair at home. Buying a gaming monitor and a gaming chair would be way above the norm.

There’s no comparison between a single loco and a gaming console, sorry.

So little Jimmys round and round trainset on the floor and Minatur Wonderland in Hamburg are the same thing, ok 

[DJ Dangerous]

18 minutes ago, Blaine said:

So little Jimmys round and round trainset on the floor and Minatur Wonderland in Hamburg are the same thing, ok 

Little Jimmy doesn’t get either when he buys a solitary loco.

Ironically, if he did get either included with his loco, there may be a chance of comparing the two as ready to go purchases.

[DJ Dangerous]

Bump for this thread, with Murphy Models likely attending the SDMRC extravaganza in Blackrock this weekend!

[DJ Dangerous]

So, with the tragic passing of Paddy Murphy, things like 071’s, 201’s, Mk3’s, Cravens and Dart+ have kind of faded away.

Does anybody know what has happened to Paddy’s various projects, and his tooling from previous models?

@Der Rechtsanwalt seemed to have a lot of inside info at one stage, on which projects were at what stage, and what order they were being produced in.

I’m sure that some were actually in production last year.

[Warbonnet]

I've been told by the Murphy family that the Mark 3 project will be completed and delivered.

After that, we'll wait and see, but @WRENNEIREmay know more.

The 071 project may be interesting and indeed tricky following recent Kader and Bachmann UK upheaval (they were made by Kader, who own Bach UK)

[DJ Dangerous]

Just now, Warbonnet said:

I've been told by the Murphy family that the Mark 3 project will be completed and delivered.

After that, we'll wait and see, but @WRENNEIREmay know more.

Thanks, @Warbonnet. It felt kind of distasteful even wondering, but I’m probably not the only one.

[Brendan8056]

I was given a copy of the Summer 2026 "Bachmann Times" the other day, and it has a whole page obituary to Paddy Murphy. I don't know anything about "upheavel" at Bachmann UK and Kader mentioned in one post. Perhaps I missed reading about that in any printed and published articles.

The obituary was titled "Paddy Murphy:The godfather of Ready-To-Run Irish Railway Models".

I will quote a sentence  "At the time of his passing,Paddy had further models under development and the family plan to progress these to completion". That sounds very hopeful for all the items planned before Paddy died. 

[Warbonnet]

4 hours ago, Brendan8056 said:

I was given a copy of the Summer 2026 "Bachmann Times" the other day, and it has a whole page obituary to Paddy Murphy. I don't know anything about "upheavel" at Bachmann UK and Kader mentioned in one post. Perhaps I missed reading about that in any printed and published articles.

The obituary was titled "Paddy Murphy:The godfather of Ready-To-Run Irish Railway Models".

I will quote a sentence  "At the time of his passing,Paddy had further models under development and the family plan to progress these to completion". That sounds very hopeful for all the items planned before Paddy died. 

Very well done on Bachmann for that.

The recent upheaval I allude to is the closure of the Kader factory for making model trains (they now have to use independent factories like the rest of us) and their recent firing of their UK MD who has since stood trial in recent weeks for possessing indecent images of minors.