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Making Tracks 3 Thanks again to the Railnuts team for a great day on Making Tracks 3 yesterday. It was great to see our Class 56 samples out through their paces on full length trains! Making Tracks will be at Chester Cathedral until 2nd September 2023, it is well worth a visit!

MAKING TRACKS 3 Making Tracks 3 - We're looking forward to meeting the Railnuts team and running our superb new painted class 56 samples on their fantastic layout tomorrow!

aureol40012, thanks for your message. Your email was received and a reply sent three days ago could I ask that you check your spam folder just in case it has gone in there. Could you please send another email to cavalexmodels@gmail.com ? Then we can get this resolved for you. Many thanks. Hope that helps.

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Hi Mike, nice to see you at DEMU and have a catch up. Thanks for your bump! We are planning to post a project's update soon which will include an update on the O&K box wagons. Just to whet your appetite....

You are welcome. Good luck with your decision, I am tempted by all four of those!!!

Morning E100, here are the end views for 56008, 56070, 56093 and 56120. I hope that helps.

Hi E100, Here are the end views for 56049: Hope that helps.

WCML100, here you go!

Morning, Apologies for the delay, we will be posting a project's update later this month which will include the PHA/JGA project. I have just taken a photo of the unbranded samples to post later today. You beat me to it!

Hi Phil, Keep an eye out for an update coming soon.....

As we await the final pre-production samples from the factory which will include the latest sound file and final speaker setup, the testing of our painted samples has continued. Thanks to Barrow Hill Junction; BR Blue 56008 was given a MGR working very prototypical for the area whilst 56049 was given some mileage on bogie tank wagons. Link to YouTube video here: Please keep an eye out for updates coming soon.

Morning WCML100, sorry for the delay in replying, I have not logged in for a few days. It was a shame that you couldn’t make DEMU this year, we had a few goodies on display that might have been of interest! We will be posting a project’s update over the next couple of weeks which will include photos of the latest pre-production samples. Hope that helps.

Thanks to Guy and all those involved for organising another great show and a most enjoyable weekend. Thanks to everyone that took the time to visit our stand and spend time chatting with us about our projects. Our thanks also to the Pwllheli team and to Shane and the Southgate Park team for allowing us to run our 56 on their respective layouts, thank you. Looking forward to 2024 already!

Nice to see our red cradle HAAs featured in the latest issue of Rail Express Modeller, our thanks to the RE magazine for their review. Certain packs of HAAs/CDAs are still available from both Trains4U and KMS Railtec.

Hi Deltic Man, Sadly Covid has impacted this project and with the delays caused by the epidemic and other issues in China, unfortunately the knock on effect is a backlog which hasn't helped. We are working closely with the factory to get the PHA/JGA project progressing to the production stage of the process as soon as practically possible. We are just awaiting updated samples from the factory, which are due imminently (The factory is currently making the samples), for final approval ahead of the project moving to the production stage of the process. The wagons are expected later this year. We will provide updates as and when we have further information. Thank you for your patience.

Class 56 - Improvements We’ve been working with the factory to make further improvements to the 56 ahead of the production models, with the mesh horn grille being an area we wanted to focus on. As you can see the mesh has been further improved vs the painted samples alongside other areas which we will showcase on the production samples.

CAVALEX CLASS 60 UPDATE - PRICE RELEASE Cavalex are pleased to report that the Class 60 project has been progressing nicely in the tooling stage to a point where we are confident, we can release the price of the loco without changing it further into the project - with the DCC Ready RRP price being set at £194.95. The price of the DCC sound fitted versions will be £294.95. Following the past few months of hard work to get to the project to this stage in the process, we are very excited to receive the first shots out of the moulds and will provide a full update on the project once these have been received. We would like to thank all of our customers and followers for their overwhelmingly positive reaction to the project so far. The Cavalex 60 can be pre-ordered from all of our retailers listed below: Collett’s Models - https://www.collettsmodelshop.co.uk C&M Models - https://candmmodels.co.uk John Dutfield - https://www.johndutfieldmodelrailways.co.uk KMS Railtech - https://www.kmsrailtech.co.uk Rails of Sheffield - https://railsofsheffield.com Rainbow Railways - https://rainbowrailways.co.uk Trains4U - http://www.trains4u.com Ultimate Model Railways - https://ultimatemodelrailways.com TTC Diecast - https://www.ttcdiecast.com Cheltenham Model Centre - https://cheltenhammodelcentre.com

CLASS 56 UPDATE - DCC SOUND FITTED PRICE Cavalex Models are pleased to announce that as the Class 56 project enters the production stage of the process, we can release the price of the DCC sound fitted loco - with the RRP for the DCC sound version of the model being set at £289.95. We would like to thank all of our potential customers for their patience over the past few months whilst the sound project has been developed. We will be contacting our retailers at the end of the month to confirm their final orders so please place your pre-order before that date to secure your models. Please visit our website below for the full DCC Sound specification, a list of our retailers, as well as details of our EM/P4 wheelsets., link below: DCC Sound Fitted Price update

Here is 021 at Barnetby, August 2007, on a nice Petroleum working! Summer days with Semaphores and Sixties!

Photo courtesy New Sodbury layout team by Thornbury & South Gloucestershire MRC Thank you to British Railway Modelling for a great weekend at Alexandra Palace last weekend - thanks also to everyone that visited our stand over the weekend and spoke to us on various projects. We are also very grateful to the New Sodbury layout team by Thornbury & South Gloucestershire MRC for running our 56049 painted sample over the weekend - it looked great on the Revolution Trains log carriers! Thornbury & South Gloucestershire MRC

Hi Mal, sorry to hear about the issues that you are experiencing with your BLA. I have sent you a pm. We will get this resolved for you. Best Regards Alex

Thank you to everyone that has posted on our thread since the announcement last week and for the positive reaction to our Class 60 project. We are delighted with the comments and feedback received so far and very excited to share this fantastic project with the modelling community. Thanks to those that attended Model Rail Scotland at the weekend and visited our stand to discuss the Class 60 and our other projects. It was a great weekend. A lot of time and effort has gone into this locomotive project, and we are very excited to bring this to fruition. I can see me getting a few of these for my layout!

Hi ADB968008, it was good to see you at the weekend and talk about our Class 60 project. Lamp irons were the main topic of conversation on Saturday night which caused some in depth discussions between Cav and I…..however, the outcome is still the same!!!!! I am really pleased to hear that you came away from visiting our stand having seen first-hand the 3D print which captures the face of the locomotive so well. Hopefully you can now fully appreciate what we are trying to achieve with our Class 60 project. The 3D print certainly gives you a visual representation of what to expect when the first EP arrives. As I am sure you could probably tell from our chat, we are all very passionate about our projects and in particular this Type-5. If you couldn’t tell, we quite like these Brush Beasts! Thanks for taking the time to pop by and have a chat. I must confess; we were a little disappointed that we were not offered an ice cream!

Thanks to Colin and all the organisers for a great show. We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend meeting visitors and talking about model railways. It was great to see that the show was well supported. Thanks to everyone that took the time to visit our stand and say hello. We are very much looking forward to next year's show.