Thank you to everyone who tuned in over the weekend to our Live event. If you missed anything it is all available via the video section on this page and also our YouTube channel.
A quick round up of the amazing announcements made this weekend

Heljan
Class 26 (3 versions)
Class 27
Class 73

PRMRP
A first look at the improved Class 43 HST

Easybuild
Cartic 4
104
110

Buzz
Tea tanks
Cowan's 76 ton crane
KIA wagon
VGA wagon

Ellis Clark

MK1 based Car-flats

As you can see it has been an amazing weekend for the future of Modern image O gauge and we would like to thank the manufacturers for taking time to support us and also choosing our weekend to make these announcements as well as the other manufacturers who provided updates on products to keep us all up to date!

If you wish to re-watch any of our weekend you can catch up now via our youtube Channel!

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​All-new O gauge Class 73/1 electro-diesel will feature plug-and-play DCC
interface, new lighting features and a wide range of authentic detail
variations covering the entire career of this enduringly popular Southern
Region class.

Bi-mode trains are all the rage in 2020, but HELJAN’s latest O gauge
announcement looks back to a classic electro-diesel design from the mid-
1960s. Now in development is for release in 2022 is a ready-to-run O gauge
model of English Electric’s pioneering Class 73 – our first electric locomotive
in this scale.

Designed to operate on both third-rail electric and diesel power in non-
electrified areas such as yards and depots, the Class 73s lived a relatively
mundane life until they were thrust into the limelight when the new ‘Gatwick
Express’ operation started in 1984. Over the years, the class has worked
everything from express passenger to newspaper and mail, freight and
engineering trains. The advent of Sectorisation in the mid-1980s saw the
standard BR blue livery replaced by a rainbow of liveries, a trend that
continues today.

Despite a steady decline in the 1990s, these hugely versatile locomotives
have seen a revival in the 21 st century and continue to play a vital role hauling
engineering and test trains for GB Railfreight and Network Rail on the 750V
DC third-rail network and beyond. Now seen over a much wider area than in
BR days, the ‘EDs’ have gained a cult following and 13 locomotives have
even been rebuilt with more powerful diesel engines and modern electronics
transforming them into 1,600hp go-anywhere machines.

Our all-new model is being designed to offer a range of authentic detail
variations covering the entire career of the production batch built in 1965-67,
many of which are still active on the main line network and heritage railways.
These will include locomotives with or without high intensity headlights and
NRN radio aerials, radio pods and optional fibreglass arc shields fitted to the
bogies from the mid-1980s onwards.

Standard features will include sprung buffers, wire handrails, fine etched
grilles, separately fitted buffing plates, SR 27-way multiple working cables and
hoses, windscreen wipers, sandpipes, bogie and bufferbeam details. CAD
work is currently in progress – regular reports will appear on the HELJAN
Facebook page and in the model railway press as the project progresses.

The new HELJAN O gauge Class 73 will feature our proven high-performance
twin motor/flywheel chassis with all-wheel drive and pick-up, separately
switchable cab, headcode and engine room lights, an ESU XL pin decoder
interface and provision for DCC sound. Like the new HELJAN Class 26/27,
these models will have ‘plug-and-play’ DCC and sound capability using ESU’s
LokSound 5 XL high-power pin decoder (Ref. No. 58515, not included).
TEN versions have been selected, covering a broad cross-section of BR,
Sectorisation and Privatisation era liveries from 1965 to the present day – see
below for more information. We are currently examining options for models
with factory-fitted DCC sound, details of which will be confirmed separately.
Suggested Retail Price (SRP) for DCC Ready models will be £625.00.
Look out for updates on the HELJAN Facebook page and in the model railway
press as this exciting project develops.
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NEW HELJAN CLASS 73/1 O GAUGE MODELS
7300: BR Blue E6008 (small yellow panels/grey solebar) WEATHERED
7301: BR Blue E6020 (small yellow panels)
7302: BR Blue 73137 (full yellow ends)
7303: BR Large Logo Blue 73114
7304: InterCity Executive 73102 Airtour Suisse
7305: BR Civil Engineers ‘Dutch’ grey/yellow 73108
7306: Revised Network SouthEast 73126 Kent & East Sussex Railway
7308: EW&S red/gold 73128
7309: Network Rail yellow 73212
7310: GB Railfreight blue/orange 73107 Tracy

All-new O gauge Class 26 will feature plug-and-play DCC interface, new lighting features and a wide range of authentic detail variations covering 1960s, 1970s and 1980s/90s locomotives. 

The first engineering samples of HELJAN’s latest new O gauge diesel locomotive – the much-requested BRCW Type 2/Class 26 – have arrived in the UK for review. Under development since last year, these new models are now at an advanced stage. 

Due for release in late-2021, this previously unannounced all-new model features a large number of improvements over the original HELJAN O gauge Class 26 released a decade ago. Unlike that model, our new BRCW Type 2 has been designed to offer a wide range of detail variations including three different bodyshells depicting locomotives with or without a tablet catcher recess and, for the first time in ‘O’, refurbished ends without headcode discs. 

However, perhaps the most exciting development is the first ever ready-to-run model (in any scale) of the legendary Inverness Class 26s with twin headlights, as used in the Far North of Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s. 

Dependent on era and livery, models will be delivered with original boiler water tanks in place or with the later style air tanks and distinctive cradle between the bogies. Other detail options will include original or plated-over cab doors, three-piece miniature snowploughs, boiler vent grilles or plates, Inverness-style round radio pods and later NRN radio pods with square cowls. As required, models will also be supplied with a set of open or folded headcode discs, separately fitted etched metal horn cowl covers and a set of optional Class 26/0 style tapered bogie footsteps allowing customers to tailor their models to individually modified locomotives. As per the full size ‘26s’, one engine room window per side has been designed to be removable for extra ventilation. 

Standard features will include sprung buffers, wire handrails, fine etched metal grilles, separately fitted windscreen wipers, sandpipes, bogie and bufferbeam details. 

The new HELJAN O gauge Class 26 will feature our proven high-performance twin motor/flywheel chassis with all-wheel drive and pick-up, separately switchable cab, tail and engine room lights, an ESU XL pin decoder interface and provision for DCC sound. This will be the first British outline ‘O’ gauge model to have ‘plug-and-play’ DCC and sound capability using ESU’s LokSound 5 XL high-power pin decoder (Ref. No. 58515, not included).

NINE versions have been selected, covering a broad cross-section of BR green, blue and Sectorisation era liveries from the early-1960s through to the 1990s – see below for more information. Suggested Retail Price will be £599.00 for DCC Ready models. We are currently examining options for models with factory-fitted DCC sound, details of which will be confirmed separately. 

Look out for updates on the HELJAN Facebook page and in the model railway press as this exciting project develops.

​2675: BR Green unnumbered (tablet catcher recess)
2676: BR Green unnumbered with small yellow panel (tablet catcher recess)
2677: BR Blue 5338 (early version)
2678: BR Blue unnumbered (Inverness headlights) 
2679: BR Blue 26027 WEATHERED
2680: BR Blue unnumbered (dual braked)
2681: Railfreight Red Stripe unnumbered (white cantrail stripe)
2682: BR Civil Engineers ‘Dutch’ grey/yellow unnumbered
2683: Railfreight Red Stripe 26025 (orange cantrail stripe) with Eastfield dog logo WEATHERED

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