IRM A Class Now In Production! Here's why you should get your pre-orders in sooner than later...

[Noel]

7 hours ago, johnfromoz said:

As predicted, the Black and Tans have again sold down at amazing speed!  Have just bagged one of the last three.  I reckon there’s a lot of guys like me with childhood memories of CIE in the 60/70s!   The power of Nostalgia….

Yip glad I’ve two B&T on order. Agree 60/70s were the glory days to this kids nostalgia memory. Away for a break but no doubt will see the new models upon our return home. 

[DiveController]

A23R and A39R both gone now, that's the last of them until the rerun

[Warbonnet]

Hi everyone,

Just a quick reminder to keep this thread on topic please. This thread is about the IRM A Class. Off topic post has been deleted.

Cheers!

Fran

[BosKonay]

2 hours ago, DiveController said:

A23R and A39R both gone now, that's the last of them until the rerun

Even if we do more A's we'll never do the same numbers / liveries again/ 

[DiveController]

23 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Even if we do more A's we'll never do the same numbers / liveries again/ 

Excellent!

Now about that rolling stock, strike while the irons hot and all that ....

(milk gets sour you know, unless its non-IRM, but there's no demand for that cause it's 5h!t3)

 

[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, BosKonay said:

Even if we do more A's we'll never do the same numbers / liveries again/ 

Any chance of a B101, then????

 

(I’ll show meself out…..)

[Patrick Davey]

Can't wait to see these locos appearing on layouts (maybe from today?)

Well done again to everyone at IRM & ITG 

[BosKonay]

We’ve initial reports of post being delivered this morning so if anyones been lucky already feel free to share

[jhb171achill]

20 hours ago, Noel said:

Yip glad I’ve two B&T on order. Agree 60/70s were the glory days to this kids nostalgia memory. Away for a break but no doubt will see the new models upon our return home. 

“Come out ye black and tans….”

[WRENNEIRE]

2 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

“Come out ye black and tans….”

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra .....

[jhb171achill]

3 minutes ago, WRENNEIRE said:

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra .....

Good MGWR territory….

When Senior went there by train (only once, I think) the train was one six wheeler and one or two goods vans. 

I asked what the carriage was like, and  got “Oh, I dunno - I travelled on the footplate there and back….”

[amdaley]

3 hours ago, BosKonay said:

We’ve initial reports of post being delivered this morning so if anyones been lucky already feel free to share

Saturday delivery

Some can't get delivery from Monday to Friday

[Colin R]

Looking forward to my ones turning up soon, just as soon as I can they will become 21mm gauge EM standard locos.

 

[DJ Dangerous]

Been watching the pop-up notifications on the IRM site, as I have such exciting Saturday nights...

The IR livery A Classes are flying out now that A39R and A23R are out of stock.

IR livery 054 is already out of stock and 036 is not far behind her, both being the day-glow panel versions.

IR livery 017 without the day-glow panels will be next on the chopping block!

We need another run of Container Liners for those IR livery A Classes.

Are orders being shipped purely based on payment date (or order date?), or is geography being taken into account, for example domestic orders ship first?

My stuff usually takes a long time either way, so I'm used to everything being "mañana", never a rush...

[mmie353]

I have 4 of mine stateside at the moment, only like 1 hour away from me. So I think IRM may have dispatched by either payment date or order date as I ordered these around the time they opened it up for pre-orders. I have 6 more that I am waiting on them to ship to me that I ordered this year. 

All going good, I am hoping by the end of this coming week or early next week, the other 6 will be on their way. 

More Container liners would be awesome and also Ammonia's too!!!

Edited October 10, 2021 by mmie353

[DJ Dangerous]

Another two day-glow IR livery 036's went overnight.

Only five left!

[Eagles]

Thanks for the update looking forward to mine everyday we get closer to receiving them

[StevieB]

We do indeed.

Stephen

[Warbonnet]

Hi everyone,

Plan is to dispatch by order date though invariably a couple out sync ship out in error, just humans with all hands on deck as they say.

Cheers!

Fran

[Billycan]

Fran, Is date of payment not a priority?

[DJ Dangerous]

2 minutes ago, Billycan said:

Fran, Is date of payment not a priority?

I was wondering about that, but it's probably a lot easier to go through the orders in the order that they were made.

You have two failsafes from a supplier point of view, the order numbers and the dates should both work in the same order.

[BosKonay]

4 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I was wondering about that, but it's probably a lot easier to go through the orders in the order that they were made.

You have two failsafes from a supplier point of view, the order numbers and the dates should both work in the same order.

We ship in chronological order of date obviously once also paid in full. 

[Billycan]

2 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I was wondering about that, but it's probably a lot easier to go through the orders in the order that they were made.

Easier, certainly, but not acknowledging early payment.

2 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

You have two failsafes from a supplier point of view, the order numbers and the dates should both work in the same order.

Nope!

1 minute ago, BosKonay said:

We ship in chronological order of date obviously once also paid in full. 

Order date or payment date?

[BosKonay]

Order date is the only priority as there wasn’t ‘strictly’ an option to not pay for the order 

Just now, BosKonay said:

Order date is the only priority as there wasn’t ‘strictly’ an option to not pay for the order 

Having said that our warehouse team are firing on all cylinders and we’re shipping over 1000 parcels a week so no one will have long to wait. 

[Colin R]

Do you know who is doing the shipping in the UK?

If it is the Post office I can get them to hang on to mind so I can collect them from the depot and so they don't get left outside and stolen 

Thanks

[Billycan]

5 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Order date is the only priority as there wasn’t ‘strictly’ an option to not pay for the order 

Having said that our warehouse team are firing on all cylinders and we’re shipping over 1000 parcels a week so no one will have long to wait. 

So, people who 'strictly' didn't have to pay and didn't, will have priority over people who didn't have to pay but did?  Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later.   

[DJ Dangerous]

Just now, Billycan said:

So, people who 'strictly' didn't have to pay and didn't, will have priority over people who didn't have to pay but did?  Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later.   

Everybody had to pay at some point. Doesn't matter when. Probably only a handful asked for deferred payment. It would take more time to single those few out and hold their orders back, than to just keep ploughing through the list!

[Warbonnet]

If it’s not paid it doesn’t get shipped, so those orders don’t touch the warehouse floor. Over 95% of people who ordered paid immediately and pretty much the rest paid in installments.

[StevieB]

Having waited so long for these beauties, does it really matter whether you get yours tomorrow or the day after?

Stephen

[Colin R]

Just how long was it from first announcement to shifting the boxes today? I am just glad that everything came together at my end finally, might be a while before I can buy any more Irish stock.

[irishthump]

1 minute ago, StevieB said:

Having waited so long for these beauties, does it really matter whether you get yours tomorrow or the day after?

Stephen

Have to agree with you!  Although I'm one to talk, I requested to collect mine coz' I did'nt fancy waiting on the post!

2 hours ago, Billycan said:

So, people who 'strictly' didn't have to pay and didn't, will have priority over people who didn't have to pay but did?  Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later.   

Are you suggesting that people who simply paid in full at the time of ordering should get there's before those who ordered earlier but waited til the last minute to pay?

[Billycan]

I wrote,

Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later.   

What do you think?

[flange lubricator]

1 hour ago, Billycan said:

I wrote,

Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later.   

What do you think?

The difference in delivery could be down to hours 24 maybe 48 after waiting 3 years you have to get things into perspective we could be pedantic but is it not worth it considering we have patiently waited this long . 
Too dispatch the orders in the way you suggest might involve re picking the orders and may inadvertently delay the deliveries overall .  

Edited October 10, 2021 by flange lubricator

[murphaph]

Exactly. Keep it simple and ship the product. Adding in more variables would just slow down the process for all.

[NIRCLASS80]

Could everyone stop being so reasonable, I want mine now!