IRM To Produce CIE A/001 Class Locomotive October 26 Dublin – Irish Railway Models (IRM) today announces that it is to produce a highly detailed and premium quality model of the CIE Metropolitan-Vickers A/001 Class in 4mm scale. Sixty of these locomotives were ordered by CIE from Metropolitan-Vickers and were built at Dukinfield Works, Manchester between 1955 and 1956 as part of a plan to implement mass dieselisation of the Irish railway network. Initially the locomotives were fitted with a