Tag: Product Highlight

27 March 2025

Product Highlight: OO Scale Midland Railway 1532 (1P) Class

The Bachmann Branchline range of OO scale models is set to welcome back the Midland Railway’s 1532 Class locomotive (later classified as the 1P Class) to the range. These models were first released in 2020 and proved to be an instant success and with new versions arriving next month, now’s the time to order yours! Before that though, let’s find...

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20 March 2025

Product Highlight: N Scale LMS 10000 and 10001 ‘Twins’

N Scale models of the first mainline diesel locomotives built in the UK, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway’s ‘Twins’, Nos. 10000 and 10001, made their way to the Graham Farish range last year and proved to be a popular success that were even crowned Model of the Year by Model Rail Magazine. Since then, new liveries have been announced...

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13 March 2025

Product Preview: OO Scale Class 350 and 450 ‘Desiro’ EMUs

After our N scale versions of the Class 350 and 450 ‘Desiro’ Electric Multiple Units made their debut last year, it’s now time for modellers of OO Scale to look forward to these units’ highly anticipated return to the Bachmann Branchline range as well! Each of the Branchline ‘Desiro’ units is formed of four cars, with two driving vehicles sandwiching...

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7 March 2025

Product Preview: N Scale Mk1 Post Office Tender Coaches

The next new coaches to arrive for the Graham Farish range of N Scale models will be BR Mk1 Post Office Tender Vans! These newly tooled models depict the diagram 732 variant of these vehicles, which were used along with the previously modelled Post Office Sorting Vans (POS) as part of Travelling Post Office (TPO) trains. The Graham Farish BR...

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26 February 2025

Product Highlight: OO Scale GWR 49XX ‘Hall’ Class

The Bachmann Branchline range of OO Scale models has recently welcomed the return of a long-time favourite for fans of the Great Western Railway, the GWR 49XX ‘Hall’ Class. Three new models are now available from Bachmann stockists, so it’s a perfect time to have a look at them in more detail. Each model sports all the hallmarks that give...

Categories Bachmann Europe News/UK Model Railways

20 February 2025

Product Highlight: O Scale Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 Tank Locomotives

EFE Rail have recently welcomed their first O Scale steam locomotive models to the range, the Hudswell Clarke 0‑6‑0 Tank Engine. Originally developed by Australian manufacturer Ixion Model Railways, these locomotives were voted as Model of the Year by readers of Model Rail Magazine and RMweb shortly after their release. Since Ixion now focus primarily on models based on Australian...

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14 February 2025

Product Preview: Railway Celebrations Range

The world’s first passenger carrying railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened on the 27th of September 1825. The opening of the railway sparked a revolution over not just the UK but the whole world, leading to huge changes not just in the way that people travelled, but also how they traded, communicated, and even measured time! The...

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30 January 2025

Product Preview: OO Scale Class 69s

It has been a few years since our upcoming OO scale models of the Class 69 were first announced for the Bachmann Branchline range, and it’s clear from all of the questions that we’ve received since then that there is a keen interest for these new locomotives. Our models have been developed concurrently with the production of the real locomotives and...

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24 January 2025

Product Highlight: New OO Scale BR Mk1 Coach Types

The British Railways Mark 1 Coaches were a common sight on the railway for nearly half a century, so it only makes sense for models of these familiar carriages to be available as part of the Bachmann Branchline range of OO Scale models. Last year, we announced several new variants of these coaches which have been produced with new tooling;...

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17 January 2025

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...

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