Park Royal Update October 2024 - Decorated Samples Revealed!

[Mol_PMB]

A couple of non-urgent questions for IRM when you have had a chance to unpack from the Scottish trip:

• When do you expect to close pre-orders for the Park Royals?

I'm wondering whether to add one more to my order; I'm presently waiting until my IRM points transfer to the AS website so that I can spend them, but I don't want to miss the boat.

And the second question associated with the same potential purchase:

• If I order another one to go with the three I've already ordered, is the multi-buy discount applied or does that only work on items ordered and paid for at the same time?

Many thanks,

Paul

[Warbonnet]

Hi Paul,

Technically we never close out pre-orders on something. We only close them when we're sold out.

I'm afraid as it's a new order no discount would be applied.

Cheers!

Fran 

[Mol_PMB]

Well here are a couple of opportunities for limited editions...

 

Compared to the normal Black'n'Tan livery, this has a thicker white line, and the orange band isn't as deep, resulting in the running number being on the black portion:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54373564366

 

Whereas this one has a normal orange band but the painter got really carried away with the white paint. What a find! Thanks IRRS Archives :-)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54372688542

I think this is the first item of railway rolling stock I have seen carrying the block lettered C.I.E. that was used on road vehicles and containers for a couple of years between the snail and the roundel.

On the Park Royal it's part of a slogan, but the C.I.E. is in a different typeface to the rest of the slogan, similar to that used on contemporary containers, as seen here:

Also note the class numbers on the doors on both of the above Park Royals, which could be seen in the early 1960s on both Green and Black'n'Tan livery. Here's one of Ernie's photos of a green Park Royal with class number:

Also from Ernie, a more typical Black'n'Tan livery with class numbers:

Hopefully Railtec will produce us some transfers for these, in the appropriate colours for the two liveries.