At GETS earlier this month, we were asked about the compatibility of using Kadee couplings with our Class 56. Thanks to Allan Cromarty and The Stafford Railway Circle, who kindly allowed us conduct a test to test on their layout “Whiteacres”. The locomotive and first wagon were coupled together using Kadee couplings and as can be seen from the below video, no issues were experienced using these type of couplings.
Thanks again to Allan and The Stafford Railway Circle.
One of the characteristics of the Class 56 was the fitting of Slow Speed Control for work on Merry-Go-Round traffic to aid with the loading of coal at Collieries and unloading at Power Stations. This was an important feature that we wanted to include on our model to allow customers to recreate this on their layouts.
As part of the testing process, the EP sample was run at slow speed under load to check that our model can run smoothly at slow speeds.
Here is a video of our 56 sample on Barrow Hill Junction on speed step 6 pulling 36 Cavalex HAAs on test. It is a long video, but we felt that it was important to show this capability of the model.
Our thanks to Michael Rhodes for allowing us to run our 56 and HAAs on Barrow Hill Junction.
Michael Rhodes’ Barrow Hill Junction is featured in the latest issue of Hornby Magazine.
Thank you to everyone that visited our stand over the weekend at the Hornby Magazine Great Electric Train show.
It was very special to see a rake of our HAAs lapping round Making Tracks 2 all weekend - thanks also to Pete Waterman and the Railnuts team for allowing us to haul their HAAs with our 56 EP sample! Looking forward to the painted samples arriving
Michael Rhodes’ Barrow Hill Junction
We have been testing out the haulage capability of our forthcoming Class 56 on Barrow Hill Junction using 36 of our weathered HAAs!
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We had a great time at Scaleforum this weekend - thanks to all of those that visited us to chat about our products! We loved seeing our PGAs on the excellent Boston Frodsham layout - thanks to Mike Knowles for letting us post these photos of the PGAs on his excellent layout.
Our thanks go to the organising team of the show for a great weekend.
As the production stage of the process for our HAA project nears completion we wanted to show a pre-production sample of our brown cradle HOP AB.
These models will be arriving over the next couple of months and available to pre-order from
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Keep an eye on our website and social media pages for updates.
Photo courtesy Mark Few
Our post DEMU Showcase update is now available to view on our website via the link below.
We have updates on all our projects - view the update in full here:
Our thanks to the following magazines for reviewing our TEA bogie tank wagons in their August issues: British Railway Modelling, Hornby Magazine, Model Rail, Rail Express Modeller and Railway Modeller. We would suggest buying the magazines to find out what they thought!
Cavalex is teaming up with Ultimate Model Railways to produce the Orenstein & Koppel bogie aggregate open wagon in 4mm scale in OO scale.
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We're really looking forward to seeing everyone at DEMU showcase tomorrow. We are very excited to be announcing our latest model, currently in tooling, at the show. We will have further information and 3D prints on display, so please join us at our stand to see what it is.