Secret photos revealed: The IRM / Accurascale team at work on their new project

[Mol_PMB]

"Where on earth are we going to fit the Accurathrash speaker in here?"

[Mol_PMB]

The photos above are at Inchicore as the first D class was being built, hopefully one day the Accuragronk will spawn an Irish variant?

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/1540-d301-class/

[Westcorkrailway]

Yknow, with something as obscure as a D class. I don’t think most would mint a simple repaint with some tooling changes. Can’t have been to many of them around and all gone by the mid 1970s

[Mol_PMB]

22 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Yknow, with something as obscure as a D class. I don’t think most would mint a simple repaint with some tooling changes. Can’t have been to many of them around and all gone by the mid 1970s

I tend to agree, use the standard 08 chassis and overlook the small dimensional differences.

If IRM don't do a D class body, there would definitely be scope for a 3D printed body to fit an 08 chassis.

Whilst there weren't many of them, I think they would be popular in the absence of other Irish shunters.

[jhb171achill]

I have been considering buying a cheap second hand 08 for some time, and repainting it as a D. Why one would have ended up on a remote rural Kerry branchline in the 1960s, would of course come into consideration!

[Mol_PMB]

5 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I have been considering buying a cheap second hand 08 for some time, and repainting it as a D. Why one would have ended up on a remote rural Kerry branchline in the 1960s, would of course come into consideration!

At the very least. the new announcement from Accurascale is likely to provide a ready source of cheap secondhand 08s!

[LNERW1]

8 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

The photos above are at Inchicore as the first D class was being built, hopefully one day the Accuragronk will spawn an Irish variant?

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/1540-d301-class/