With the release of its Autumn 2025 British Railway Announcements on Wednesday, 6th August, Bachmann Europe announced new models for its Branchline, Graham Farish and Scenecraft ranges.

With the release of its Autumn 2025 British Railway Announcements on Wednesday, 6th August, Bachmann Europe announced new models for its Branchline, Graham Farish and Scenecraft ranges.

A new Stanier 8F follows soon after the announcement of a North Eastern Railway (NER) E Class, also known as a London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class J71, 0-6-0 tank engine, launched ahead of The Greatest Gathering.

A welcome return to the Branchline range is the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) E4 Class 0-6-2 tank engine, upgraded for sound, and featuring four models, with the option of SOUND FITTED. One of these models is the sole-surviving E4 in BR livery, No. 32473.

Also upgraded is the Class 30/31 diesel, released in 2024, now featuring a Bach-Up Stay Alive system as standard and all-wheel electrical pickup.

Six variations will be available, some in liveries not previously available and all with optional SOUND FITTED or SOUND FITTED DELUXE. The SOUND FITTED version has motorised roof fans, tinted driver’s and secondman’s windscreens, and the new Auto-Release Coupling system providing automated, hands-free uncoupling operated by a single DCC function.

Another release is a new 2-HAP Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) with two new livery options and, for the first time, with optional SOUND FITTED. Other new Branchline models are two versions of the diminutive Wickham Trolley, including a model of Longmoor Military Railway No. WD9033, which featured in the 1960s film The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery, and new versions of a bulk grain wagon and JGA, HHA and HKA bogie hoppers.

New Graham Farish N Scale models include three versions of a GWR Castle Class locomotive with or without SOUND FITTED and a Class 150/2 Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) in GWR Green and Transport for Wales liveries. Supplementing the NER P7/LNER Diagram 12 coal hoppers announced last week are new versions of three-plank open wagons, now with NEM coupling pockets.

New Graham Farish N Scale models include three versions of a GWR Castle Class locomotivewith or without SOUND FITTED and a Class 150/2 Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) available in GWR Green and Transport for Wales liveries.

Supplementing the NER P7/LNER Diagram 12 coal hoppers announced last week are new versions of three-plank open wagons, now with NEM coupling pockets. New Graham Farish models include new versions of a five-plank china clay wagon and a BR Carflat.

New Scenecraft releases in N Scale have a low-relief theme, with five low-relief dwellings and the return of the sectional lineside hut and Highley Station Yard crane.

New OO Scale Scenecraft models include a standard GWR station modelled on Toddington Station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, a selection of depot mess and crew rooms, and coal barges and narrow boats to support modellers of canal or river scenes.

NG7 models from Scenecraft include a corrugated engine shed and a metal water tank.

Further details of the new Autumn 2025 models are on the Bachmann website at www.bachmann.co.uk