Bachmann Europe has revealed its first new products this year. Its two new tooling projects are the Spring British Railway Announcements.

Last year, the model maker delivered 13 new tooling projects to its retailers, ending the year by releasing new products in time for Christmas. Bachmann also announced seven further projects to be delivered this year.

The first of this year’s new tooling is part of the company’s EFE Rail range, and the models are the first ever N Scale models of Class 23 ‘Baby Deltic’ diesel locomotives.

The models are produced to modern standards, and include features such as directional lighting, a Next18 DCC decoder socket and space where a speaker can be fitted.

The second set of new models is part of the Graham Farish range, and includes Class 101 DMUs, the Mk1 POS Post Office Sorting Vans and the HYA/IIA Hopper Wagons. They will be produced in a selection of common liveries.

The Bachmann Branchline range (OO Scale) will be enhanced by the addition of the LMS Jubilee in new forms. Their new tooling will represent the later-built locomotives, which had longer fireboxes and sloping firebox throatplates. The new Branchline Jubilee models will also have a firebox lighting system and will be Plux22 DCC compatible.

Bachmann will donate money from the sale of models of ‘Bahamas’ to the Bahamas Locomotive Society, to help fund the restoration of the real ‘Bahamas’ locomotive.

Later this year, Bachmann will offer similar support to the project to build a replica of LMS Patriot No. 5551, which it will rename ‘The Unknown Warrior’.

The company is also making its EFE Rail’s OO Scale Isle of Wight Coach sets available as individual vehicles in the liveries of several early-twentieth-century, pre-grouping railway companies.

Bachmann’s Scenecraft range offers a variety of buildings, structures and accessories, and the company has added five new OO Scale figure packs.