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Accurascale goes big with debut release

SO, the Accurascale adventure has begun. Having already helped revolutionise modelling across the Irish Sea, the team behind the highly acclaimed Irish Railway Models brand have now made their debut in the UK market with the release of the sister company’s first ready-to-run ‘OO’ gauge model.

Announced less than five months ago, the subject is the BR 24½ ton coal hopper, later to become HUO under the TOPS system. Few would have picked such a mundane wagon

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