Category: UK Model Railways

Practically Perfect – Save the Date!

The Bachmann Collectors Club is pleased to confirm that our ever-popular ‘Practically Perfect’ Sale returns on Saturday, 20th June 2026, taking place in the Goods Shed at Market Bosworth Station on the Battlefield Line again. This is always a busy and much-loved event, giving members the chance to get some fantastic bargains on repaired and refurbished locomotives and rollingstock from...

NEW CLUB MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS AND EXCLUSIVE MODELS AVAILABLE NOW

At the start of July the Bachmann Collectors Club revealed three new membership options with prices starting from only £29.99 a year. Standard Membership includes a year’s subscription to the Bachmann Times magazine, full of news, modelling and historic articles and home to the quarterly British Railway Announcements catalogue, plus a discount of at least 10% on the full range...

GREAT EIGHT! – STANIER’S ICONIC 8F JOINS THE BACHMANN BRANCHLINE RANGE

The LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 was one of Britain’s most numerous and successful steam locomotives, and after producing award winning models of the iconic type for its Graham Farish N Scale range, ninety years since the first example emerged from the LMS’s Crewe Works it’s time to welcome OO scale models of the 8F to Bachmann’s Branchline range for...

Bachmann Branchline Launches NER E Class at The Greatest Gathering

With 2025 marking the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, Bachmann has selected the North Eastern Railway E Class Tank Locomotive, which was an unsung hero at the centenary celebrations 100 years ago, as the next steam locomotive for its OO Scale Bachmann Branchline range. The NER E Class 0-6-0 Tank Locomotive, later classified as J71...

Graham Farish Launches NER P7 and LNER D12 Coal Hoppers in Railway 200 Year

Two hundred years ago in 1825 the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) opened, heralding the age of the train and kickstarting rail travel as we know it today. Established deep within the rich coal fields of North East England, the S&DR connected collieries and docks, ports and pitheads, to move coal faster than ever before, fuelling the industrial revolution. Later,...