A further look at four more painted pre-production Cavalex Class 60 samples, including exclusives for Rails of Sheffield and Ultimate Model Railways.
We’re pleased with how these and the sound file are progressing - visit our stand this weekend at the Great Electric Train Show to see the samples in the flesh!
Photo courtesy Dave Cook
We’re excited to be joined this weekend at the Great Electric Train Show by Dave Cook aka Shedmaster, with his excellent miniature version of Stewart’s Lane. Dave will be demoing the sound file of the Cavalex Class 60 all weekend using the latest pre-production samples!
Photo courtesy Dave Cook
Photo courtesy Dave Cook
Photo courtesy Dave Cook
Final Cavalex Class 60 pre-production samples will be on show this weekend at the Great Electric Train show, alongside a demonstration of our final sound file. We cannot wait for you to see and hear them!
A full update on the project will follow post the show for those that cannot make this weekend.
Photo courtesy John Gowan
Photo courtesy John Gowan
A big thanks to John Gowan for sharing these excellent photos of his weathered and detailed 56120. We’ve really enjoyed seeing photos of customer’s weathered Class 56s, looking forward to more from run two of the Class 56 arriving in 2025 https://www.cavalexmodels.com/cavalex-class-56-secondrun
August 2024 saw another successful visit to Chester Cathedral for Pete Waterman and his Rail nuts team with Making Tracks 4 which attracted 39,232 visitors with 4,014 members of the public having the experience of driving trains on the layout. Making Tracks 4, this year featuring Watford Junction railway station, continues to raise the profile of the hobby and help inspire people to get involved in model railways.
Having the opportunity to run our Class 60 samples on Making Tracks has provided us with invaluable running as part of the test and evaluation procedure within the development process of the project.
Our thanks to Pete Waterman, Chris Clenton, Phil Moreton and the Railnuts team for their continued support.
It has been great to see our Class 60s running on Making Tracks and also 56008. This particular model has been putting in the miles and it is estimated that since August last year it has covered over 40 miles!
Making Tracks with Pete Waterman and the Railnuts makes a return to Chester Cathedral with their new layout Watford Junction which features parts of the World Record Largest Portable Model Railway modelling Watford Junction.
Measuring 64ft x 12ft, Making Tracks 4 – Up to the Junction, will be open each week in August Monday to Saturday giving visitors the opportunity to watch or drive trains on this incredible layout.
The event opens on August 1 and runs until August 31 between 10am and 5pm on weekdays and 10am and 4pm on Saturdays. The Making Tracks exhibit is closed on Sundays and August 16.
For more information, please visit the Chester Cathedral website for more details:
https://www.chestercathedral.com/
Cavalex are excited to be visiting Making Tracks on Monday the 5th of August.
If you are planning to visit, please come and say hello and see some of our products running on Making Tracks 4, including decorated samples of our forthcoming Class 60 locomotive.
Thanks to DB Cargo U.K., we recently had a very enjoyable day out at Toton depot.
Look out for more content from our visit coming soon….
It is always nice to see a model alongside the prototype, here is the Cavalex 56098 with the real locomotive.
Our thanks to GBRf for their help and support with our Class 56 project and to UKRL at Leicester for allowing us to visit their depot for this event.
During the visit to Leicester it was nice to see some of the staff involved in painting both 56098 and 56081. Thank you to Tony Middleton, Drew Ciupek and Jamie Green.
Also our thanks to Rob Reedman for allowing us to use his superb photos on the box for our GBRf Farewell Railtour twin pack.