Flash Sale - Get Up to 55% Off Selected IRM Wagons This Week!

[Warbonnet]

Hi folks,

We have a lot of new stock coming your way in the coming months, so we need to clear a bit of space in the warehouse. 

So, here is a deal for you! 

 

• GET 40% OFF our magnesite wagons when you buy one wagon pack!
• Get AN ADDITIONAL 10% Off When You buy 2, 3 or 4 Packs!
• GET AN ADDTIONAL 15% OFF when you buy 5+ Packs!

On top of that we will throw in our free postage and packaging around Ireland too!

Sale ends 23:59 Sunday September 7th, or when we run out of stock. 

Bag yourself a bargain here: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/magnesite-wagons

Cheers!

Fran

[DJ Dangerous]

Awesome!!!!!

[skinner75]

Sweet!

I picked up two packs using all the loyalty points I had built up over time, so they ended up costing me nothing!

[Darrman]

I had a shopping itch to scratch, so this came at the perfect time. Threw in a pack of mags into my order of Bulleids - now my Last Magnesite Wagon won't be by itself.

[Davenport]

Oh no, only purchased a set 2 weeks ago.

[ttc0169]

Ah sure why not - pack D duly ordered to add to packs A,B and C previously purchased.....

[Patrick Davey]

Was there a magnesite flow to Clogherhead I wonder.  Must ask the nuns.......

 

[Wexford70]

I understand why discounts happen and am happy for those who avail of them, but I always feel a bit hard done by if I have paid full price when a model first comes out.

Edited September 4 by Wexford70

[DJ Dangerous]

What would a Magnesite chassis combined witha Fuel Oil Tank body give you?

[murphaph]

20 minutes ago, Wexford70 said:

I understand why discounts happen and am happy for those who avail of them, but I always feel a bit hard done by if I have paid full price when a model first comes out.

You can always console yourself with the fact you got to play with, I mean use the model for several months before those buying them with a discount the year after  

[DSERetc]

6 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Was there a magnesite flow to Clogherhead I wonder.  Must ask the nuns.......

 

Did they not use something like milk of magnesite?  I believe that it was not only the trains that ran regularly in Clogherhead!

DSERetc

[Wexford70]

19 hours ago, murphaph said:

You can always console yourself with the fact you got to play with, I mean use the model for several months before those buying them with a discount the year after  

That's true!!!!

[Niles]

If anyone's looking for an excuse to run magnesite wagons out of region, don't forget some of them ended up stored in places like Enniscorthy and I think Gort in their latter years, and they didn't get there by magic either. In fact while researching the history of my fictional station I discovered some were stored there too in the 90s. 

Or just, ye know, Rule 1.

Edited September 5 by Niles

[Mayner]

No one appears to have mentioned the option of converting a Magnesite wagon into a Container Wagon or an Oil Tank Wagon by simply removing the body, relocating the brake cylinders under the chassis, CIE basically used the same "Standard' 20ft Chassis under several types of wagon. At that level of discount worth considering.

CIE built 4 Oil Tank Wagons 26628-26631 in 1967 to run with the Magnesite Wagons on Cork (Tivoli)-Ballinacourty Oil-Magnesite trains, the tanks likley to be similar to those used for ESSO & Burmah traffic rather than the anchor mounted tanks used for Irish Cement Oil traffic.

CIE built 200 Skeletal Flat Wagons 27101-27300 in 1970 (Burmah tank wagons used same chassis complete with redundant container twist lock spigots!) These wagons seem to have been mainly used for carrying 20' keg & Bitumen/Tar containers. 

Other possible use for the chassis for 1st Avenues 3D printed Bagged Cement wagons or simply fitting a plasticard floor to represent 25436-25982 CIE's 1st generation of 20T Flat Wagons introduced 1966

 

Mollasses ex-Burmah Tank wagon. SSM do a conversion kit to update the Dapol ESSO tank with this form of tank mounting and finer ladder/walkway detail.

Mollasses ex Irish Cement oil traffic wagon with anchor mounted tank, tank likely to be longer larger dia than Bulleid CIE Fuel Oil tank wagon.

Not sure if the Nuns would have tolerated the noise and dust of a sea-water magnesite plant disturbing the peace and tranquility of Clogherhead and its beach, though come to mind the religious orders became deeply involved in property development in the 70s and 80s at the time I worked for a company bought land for housing developments in the Dublin era including in one case building a new modern convent as part of the deal.

The Quigleys Magnesite operation became un-economic as a result of increasing fuel prices following the 70s oil crisis, the Ballinacourty plant produced magnesite by processing limestone (railed from a quarry near Bennettsbridge Co-Kilkenny) and sea-water from Dungarvan Bay, then railed the Magnseite to a plant in Tivoli where it was further processed into a heat resistant material used in smelting and metal processing. Interestingly a sea-water magnesite plant was established on the site of the old Boyne Road cement plant in Drogheda after Quigley Magnesite closed, no need for long distance rail transport or Magnesite Wagons limestone was sourced from nearby Irish Cement quarries and finished product exported by sea from Drogheda, saving the nuns in Clogherhead from all that dust nosie and pollution.