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Prototype Power Cars from Bachmann Collectors Club for Spring 2025

As part of Bachmann Europe’s Spring 2025 British Railway Announcements, the Bachmann Collectors Club has today (Wednesday 5th February 2025) launched its latest Limited Edition models depicting the Prototype Power Cars from the High Speed Diesel Train (HSDT – otherwise known as the HST). The models are available in two formats, as a twin pack containing the pair of prototype...

Spring British Railway Announcements Kick Off Bachmann’s Programme of New Products For 2025

Bachmann Europe Plc today (Wednesday 5th February 2025) revealed its first new products for 2025 with the launch of the Spring British Railway Announcements. As is now customary, in this, the first of four quarterly announcements scheduled for 2025, new products for Bachmann’s British model railway and model bus ranges were detailed, with most of these new items due to...

Bachmann on the Road – Weston-Super-Mare Model Railway Show 2025

Date and Time: Saturday 15th February 2025, 10:00 – 16:00. Sunday 16th February 2025, 10:00 – 16:00.  Location: Priory Community School, Queens Way, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6BP.  The Bachmann Collectors Club will have the new Spring British Railway Announcements on show for the first time at the now 2-day Weston-Super-Mare Model Railway Show, where there will be 22 layouts of all different scales to...

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...