Monthly Archive: January, 2025

Class 74s Get the EFE Rail Treatment

Ahead of its Spring 2025 British Railway Announcements, Bachmann Europe Plc today revealed that it has commissioned a OO Scale model of the Class 74 Electro-Diesel Locomotive for its EFE Rail range. The Class 74 Electro-Diesel Locomotives (known as ‘HB’s before the introduction of the Total Operations Processing System (TOPS)) began life as Class 71 Electric Locomotives (originally ‘HA’s) of...

Bachmann on the Road – Alton FebEx 2025

Date and Time: Saturday 1st February 2025, 10:30 – 17:00. Sunday 2nd February 2025, 10:30 – 16.00.  Location: Eggars School, London Road, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 4EQ.  Bachmann Collectors Club are once again attending Alton Model Railway Group’s FebEx exhibition in Alton, where last year we sponsored the ‘Best layout in show’ award and officially opened the show. The exhibition will have a mixture...

Product Highlight: OO Scale BR 12 Ton ‘Palvan’ Pallet Vans

It’s the start of a new year and with it comes the arrival of some newly tooled OO scale models into the Bachmann Branchline range! These new wagons are the BR 12 Ton ‘Palvan’ Pallet Vans, which have been highly anticipated since their engineering prototypes were first displayed last year’s London Festival of Railway Modelling. These wagons have been produced...