Irish Railway Models - Announcements

In 1939, the entry into service of the first of Inchicore’s Class B1a 4-6-0 locomotives; 800 Maeḋḃ (Maedhbh), broke all of Ireland’s previous locomotive building conventions, and has led to the GSR Class 800 locomotives achieving a legendary status not far short of their illustrious namesakes. But is this down to the engineering excellence of the Class, or a legacy of potential unfulfilled?

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Welcome to the GSR/CIE 800 class locomotives, the largest steam locomotives to ever run in Ireland...

No sooner had we announced that our next locomotives for IRM would be the utterly distinctive and characterful NIR 101 Class "Hunslets", that we already had progressed to decorated samples and they...

We love a good collaboration here at IRM, and we are delighted to team up with our Danish friends at Heljan to bring you a run of the former BR Oil tankers bought by CIE in the late 1960s and modif...

It's that time of year again; where the Dublin show rolls around for the October Bank Holiday weekend and we announce our next big project for the Irish railway scene. Many will have guessed it con...

Another long overdue project update is finally here, and thankfully it's much more positive as we get to reveal decorated samples of our hotly anticipated Park Royal coaches! Firstly, we shall let ...

Sometimes, things just don’t work out as well as we had hoped! When we first announced the ICR 22000 models back in October 2022, with eight variations covering 3-car, 4-car and 6-car sets from the...

Hot on the heels of our opens, flats, and now our tank wagons (Which are not far away at all from delivery!),we can now report that our grain wagons are progressing very nicely indeed, with decorat...

We certainly alluded that the humble H Van was in our future in our launch of the Grain Wagons, and now we can reveal our model of the standard CIE goods van, here in fitted form! History The progr...

Irish outline announcements have been coming thick and fast in recent months, and instead of slowing the pace down, we've decided to add another one to the pile with our latest all-new wagon announ...

Following on from the news about the completed production of our Bulleid corrugated open wagons yesterday, we can now unveil he decorated samples of our flat wagons! Based around the same chassis a...