The Eagle Has Landed - NIR Hunslets Next For Accurascale IRM

[DJ Dangerous]

On 12/12/2025 at 11:02 PM, BosKonay said:

Final production samples and a shipping update are due in the coming week. Not long now and they look and run amazingly. 

You’re cutting it fine for Q4!

[Mol_PMB]

11 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

You’re cutting it fine for Q4!

Depends which year…

[GSWR 90]

Whoops, wrong thread... Looking for 800s, not 101s. Too much excitement going on!

Edited Sunday at 15:01 by GSWR 90

[Mol_PMB]

13 minutes ago, GSWR 90 said:

Whoops, wrong thread... Looking for 101s, not 800s. Too much excitement going on!

No GSWR 0-6-0s, CIE Sulzers or indeed GNR MaKs to be found here. Yet…

[BosKonay]

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

You’re cutting it fine for Q4!

Planes are fierce quick yokes

[Mol_PMB]

29 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Planes are fierce quick yokes

102 'Falcon' is the fastest bird in the sky, and beats most trains too, though admittedly not IRM's air freighter. 242mph top speed recorded!

[Horsetan]

On 14/12/2025 at 1:28 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

You’re cutting it fine for Q4!

 

On 14/12/2025 at 1:40 PM, Mol_PMB said:

Depends which year…

I was about to say.....if it were Q4 in 2026, it would allow some of us more time to save money.....

[DJ Dangerous]

On 14/12/2025 at 5:18 PM, BosKonay said:

Planes are fierce quick yokes

As are parachute drops for speedy unloading!

 

9 hours ago, Horsetan said:

 

I was about to say.....if it were Q4 in 2026, it would allow some of us more time to save money.....

Last updates were here:

 

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Hi @Brunel276,

 

Many thanks for the order. No change to our last update which you can read here: https://www.accurascale.com/blogs/irish-railway-news/what-a-hunny-decorated-nir-hunslets-revealed

 

If there is a change, then we publish a new update.

 

Cheers!

 

Fran

 

And here:

 

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Overall, we are very pleased with progress so far, and the above has been fed back to the factory already with these amendments now well under way. Production is due to begin just after the Chinese New Year break in spring 2025 with us still on course for a delivery date Q4 2025.

 

So a full year to save is probably not too likely!

 

 

[Mol_PMB]

Boskonay indicated that they're coming on a plane. I wonder if production volumes demand a big one...

 

[leslie10646]

23 hours ago, Horsetan said:

 

I was about to say.....if it were Q4 in 2026, it would allow some of us more time to save money.....

Obviously lawyers don't earn as much as I thought ........

[leslie10646]

On 14/12/2025 at 5:50 PM, Mol_PMB said:

102 'Falcon' is the fastest bird in the sky, and beats most trains too, though admittedly not IRM's air freighter. 242mph top speed recorded!

I get quite enough fun out of watching the Red Kites in our back garden in Caversham - four down to collect bits of fat within 15 seconds! We're very privileged to see these once rare birds - we see more than we do Blue Tits etc. It's great watching them scare off the seagulls ......

 

 

[Mol_PMB]

Very nice! I very occasionally see kites overhead, buzzards and kestrels are more common in the skies here in Manchester, and we have a local pair of falcons that I have watched catching pigeons around the M60 Barton viaduct.

In the garden I have very good numbers of small birds visiting (tits, finches, sparrows etc) and consequently sparrowhawks also visit my garden. They usually perch on the outbuildings or fences but one hid in the apple tree.

We also have parrots nesting locally. They’ll be at it again soon, they breed very early in the year.