Graham Farish Spring 2023 announcements

[AY Mod]

In N Scale the all-new Graham Farish Class 90 Electric Locomotive will now be available in Freightliner ‘Powerhaul’ livery, with or without SOUND FITTED, whilst the Class 08 Diesel Shunter is offered in the popular BR Green and BR Blue colour schemes using the newly upgraded model which also allows SOUND FITTED models to be offered alongside the standard versions.

 

The Graham Farish rolling stock range sees a major injection of wagons with new releases of the 14 Ton Tanks, 30 Ton Bogie Bolsters, Bogie Ballast Hoppers, 27 Ton Steel Tipplers and HKA Bogie Hopper Wagons all set for release this Spring. In each instance, multiple liveries will be available and, in most cases, offered with a choice of two running numbers per livery

 

N SCALE LOCOMOTIVES & MULTIPLE UNITS

371-013A Class 08 13269 BR Green (Early Emblem) £149.95
371-013ASF Class 08 13269 BR Green (Early Emblem) £249.95

371-015F Class 08 08895 BR Blue £149.95
371-015FSF Class 08 08895 BR Blue £249.95

371-790 Class 90/0 90042 Freightliner 'PowerHaul' £194.95
371-790SF Class 90/0 90042 Freightliner 'PowerHaul' £294.95

 

N SCALE ROLLING STOCK

 

373-650B 14T Tank Wagon 'National Benzole' Silver £25.95

373-650C 14T Tank Wagon 'National Benzole' Silver £25.95

373-658 14T Tank Wagon 'Fina' Silver £25.95

373-658A 14T Tank Wagon 'Fina' Silver £25.95

373-659 14T Tank Wagon 'Crossfield Chemicals' Green £25.95

373-659A 14T Tank Wagon 'Crossfield Chemicals' Green £25.95

373-660 14T Tank Wagon 'Shell/BP' Black £25.95

373-660A 14T Tank Wagon 'Shell/BP' Black £25.95

373-682A 14T Tank Wagon 'ICI' Maroon £25.95

373-682B 14T Tank Wagon 'ICI' Maroon £25.95

373-811A HKA Bogie Hopper 'National Power' Blue £51.95

373-811B HKA Bogie Hopper 'National Power' Blue £51.95

373-813A HKA Bogie Hopper DB Schenker £51.95

373-813B HKA Bogie Hopper DB Schenker £51.95

373-925C 30T 'Prawn' Bogie Bolster BR Gulf Red [WL] £33.95

373-925D 30T 'Prawn' Bogie Bolster BR Gulf Red [WL] £33.95

373-926E 30T 'Bogie Bolster C' Bogie Bolster BR Grey [WL] £33.95

373-926F 30T 'Bogie Bolster C' Bogie Bolster BR Grey [WL] £33.95

373-927C 30T 'Macaw B' Bogie Bolster GWR Grey [WL] £33.95

373-927D 30T 'Macaw B' Bogie Bolster GWR Grey [WL] £33.95

377-001B BR YGH 'Sea-Lion' Bogie Hopper Wagon BR Engineers Grey & Yellow £59.95

377-001C BR YGH 'Sea-Lion' Bogie Hopper Wagon BR Engineers Grey & Yellow £59.95

377-003 BR Bogie Hopper Wagon BR Departmental Black £59.95

377-003A BR Bogie Hopper Wagon BR Departmental Black £59.95

377-004 BR YGH 'Sealion' Bogie Hopper Wagon LoadHaul Black & Orange £59.95

377-005 BR YGB Bogie Hopper Wagon Mainline Blue £59.95

377-006 BR YGB 'Stingray' Bogie Hopper Wagon Transrail Grey £59.95

377-276B BR 27T Steel Tippler Wagon BR Grey 'Chalk' £20.95

377-276C BR 27T Steel Tippler Wagon BR Grey 'Chalk' £20.95

377-278A BR 27T Steel Tippler Wagon BR Bauxite (TOPS) [WL] £22.95

377-278B BR 27T Steel Tippler Wagon BR Bauxite (TOPS) [WL] £22.95

377-282 BR 27T Steel Tippler Wagon NCB Blue £20.95

377-282A BR 27T Steel Tippler Wagon NCB Blue £20.95

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N SCALE SCENECRAFT

42-0013 Post War System-Built Station £49.95

42-0014 Post War Platform Shelter £29.95

42-0099 The Gate Inn £54.95

42-0502 Police Box £12.95

42-064Z Kent Coast Signal Box £54.95

42-183 Blue Anchor Station £44.95

42-195 Grounded Carriage £32.95

42-242 Low Relief Gentleman's Outfitters £35.95

42-260 Low Relief Local Garage £42.95

42-267 Low Relief Corner Pub £34.95

42-282 Low Relief Jo's Jewellery £41.95

42-515 Greenhouse (x2) £22.95

42-595 Sleeper Built Fencing (x4) £10.95

[Stuart A]

I know there will be much moaning that there's no coaches, but the policy of releasing multiple liveries, and running numbers on each model bodes well for the future.

 

I wondered if the Sealion would end up being a collectors club release, but nice to see it on general release.  Might take the heat out of the second hand market, though that seems to have calmed from it's crazy highs!

[bmthtrains - David]

Great to see more wagons re-released, and another 90 livery - though odd they went for Powerhaul over normal FL green or EWS/DB liveries. 
 

David 

[grahame]

The sealion hoppers are probably the highlight and will no doubt be very welcome. But, although admittedly skimming through the list, I didn't notice any all newly tooled rolling stock. Have I missed something?

 

 

[Roy L S]

Well that's a wasted half an hour of my time I won't be getting back...

 

Once again leading with the totally transparent "placebo" of further Scenecraft models at eye watering prices to try and deflect from the lack of much else and there being absolutely no new tool items in terms of rolling stock or locos. 

 

I had a lingering hope that 2023 just might be the year that the Farish brand got Bachmann's full attention, but based on this start I think that looks far from likely, and the final crumb of hope has now well and truly disappeared. 

 

Roy

 

 

 

 

[Stuart A]

3 minutes ago, grahame said:

The sealion hoppers are probably the highlight and will no doubt be very welcome. But, although admittedly skimming through the list, I didn't notice any all newly tooled rolling stock. Have I missed something?

 

 

No.  Was there an expectation of newly tooled rollingstock?

 

I'm glad they are re-releasing large batches of existing tooling in various liveries.

[AndyB]

Good to see some wagons in the release.

I know we all focus on locomotives.

But in all honesty I've got more locos than things for them to pull. 

 

[woodenhead]

 

"Dougall, those N gauge models in the announcement are small, but the new toolings are far away"

Edited February 1, 2023 by woodenhead

[bmthtrains - David]

6 minutes ago, Roy L S said:

I had a lingering hope that 2023 just might be the year that the Farish brand got Bachmann's full attention, but based on this start I think that looks far from likely, and the final crumb of hope has now well and truly disappeared. 

 

Roy

 

 

 

 

This could only be more melodramatic if delivered from a fainting couch. 
 

Did you miss all the new releases last year? The 319, 08, 60, 03, 90…? 

 

David 

[AY Mod]

14 minutes ago, Roy L S said:

Well that's a wasted half an hour of my time I won't be getting back...

 

It's being so cheerful that keeps you going from one day to the next.

[woodenhead]

6 minutes ago, bmthtrains - David said:

This could only be more melodramatic if delivered from a fainting couch. 
 

Did you miss all the new releases last year? The 319, 08, 60, 03, 90…? 

 

David 

Maybe Roy is referring to the avalanche of coaches that people would like to see to go behind the 90 or any other locomotive they might have purchased.

 

Edit: but not me, I have too many, but not too many to part with any.

Edited February 1, 2023 by woodenhead

[TomE]

Happy to see the Freightliner 90, order in for one of those! 

Good to see some freight stock coming through. The National Power HKAs will go well with the Revolution / Dapol 59s and good to see the bogie ballast hoppers back. 

Tom.  

[John M Upton]

Tempted by the practically goes anywhere blue 08, maybe even pick up the CLASP station for a future project.

 

Would have like a rake of Seacows but not at that price, trouble is I can't see them ever getting discounted significantly either.

[Crepello]

The Walrus appeals to me.  Perhaps I’d exchange  the bogies for the plate type as those might be more typical. 
The Cambrian website says the Walrus was 16’’ shorter than the Sealion due to shorter end platforms. I think I can live with  a 2.5 mm discrepancy in N gauge.

Good to see Bachmann going in for more choice of wagon numbers at last.

Edited February 1, 2023 by Crepello
Further thoughts

[Roy L S]

37 minutes ago, bmthtrains - David said:

This could only be more melodramatic if delivered from a fainting couch. 
 

Did you miss all the new releases last year? The 319, 08, 60, 03, 90…? 

 

David 

 

We are all entitled to our perspectives and please do not be so patronising.

 

No I did not miss those models and indeed bought a sound fitted 08 and plus an 04 but what I have missed and remains missing is any effort to re-balance the available product range with some steam locos and coaches for them to pull even from existing tooling. The number of steam locos listed by comparison to diesels is truly pitiful and little effort appears to be made to address it in spite of a large tooling suite. As Bachmann are known to have this portfilio of tooling nobody else will touch the models....

 

The 319, 60 and 90 are fine models I am sure but of no interest to me, I was expressing a personal opinion based on my own (and many others') modelling interests.

 

Roy

[Stefen1988]

Those Early BR Wagons are nice.

 

It looks like that N got more that 00 in this announcement.

 

Hope we get Coaches with the next...

Edited February 1, 2023 by Stefen1988

[grahame]

1 hour ago, Stuart A said:

No.  Was there an expectation of newly tooled rollingstock?

 

 

Oh yes. There was expectation by many of all new items and re-runs of coaches.

 

[Steven B]

Nice to see some re-runs of wagons - particularly the different running numbers (rather noticeable on the four-wheel tanks). The re-run on the National Power hoppers is nicely timed with the pending release of the Revolution class 59 - some welcome joined up thinking!

 

Fingers crossed for some TTA and TEA in the summer.

 

Personally, I'd hoped for a couple more class 90s (including Intercity Mainline), and more coaches (Mk2F in I/C Swallow & Virgin and Mk2a TSO in blue/grey and Mk2a BSO in Regional Railways to fill the gaps from the last round of Mk2a).

Maybe next time...

 

Is there any news of a release date for the Farish class 158 yet?

 

Steven B.

[TomE]

Just now, Steven B said:

Nice to see some re-runs of wagons - particularly the different running numbers (rather noticeable on the four-wheel tanks). The re-run on the National Power hoppers is nicely timed with the pending release of the Revolution class 59 - some welcome joined up thinking!

 

Fingers crossed for some TTA and TEA in the summer.

 

Personally, I'd hoped for a couple more class 90s (including Intercity Mainline), and more coaches (Mk2F in I/C Swallow & Virgin and Mk2a TSO in blue/grey and Mk2a BSO in Regional Railways to fill the gaps from the last round of Mk2a).

Maybe next time...

 

Is there any news of a release date for the Farish class 158 yet?

 

Steven B.

I was told Q3/Q4 this year at Warley.

 

Highly likely to be more liveries at launch than already announced would be my bet. 

Tom.  
 

[Steven B]

1 minute ago, TomE said:

I was told Q3/Q4 this year at Warley.

 

Highly likely to be more liveries at launch than already announced would be my bet.

 

Thanks Tom - more liveries would be nice but I suspect they won't include my second choice of West Yorkshire PTE red and cream!

RST162-8 by Robert Catterson, on Flickr

 

Steven B.

[RichardT]

36 minutes ago, grahame said:

Oh yes. There was expectation by many of all new items and re-runs of coaches

Sounds like you’re glad we’re all disappointed Grahame.
 

 I haven’t noticed many expectations for “all new” items on any N gauge fora.  What I have noticed is a perfectly legitimate wish that Farish do some new runs of items for which they have existing amortised tooling, especially carriages and wagons, so that we have something to pull behind our locos.  The tank wagons in this announcement are a good, but woefully unambitious, start.

 

Richard

 

 

[woodenhead]

51 minutes ago, grahame said:

 

Oh yes. There was expectation by many of all new items and re-runs of coaches.

 

I think in most cases it is 'hope' not expectation of new coaches.

 

Each quarterly announcement comes along and the same hopes are elicited, some basic Mk1 Seconds, some Mk2as, some Mk2F seconds, brakes etc.

 

Without Farish giving some indication that they appreciate the gap and are actively planning to address it then I can understand why some are exasperated by the announcements.  It's not like there is some business critical need to hide when they plan to produce coaches, there is no competitor about to snap up the gap and pour Mk1 and Mk2 coaches into N gauge.

 

If I was not in the envious position of having enough Mk1s I too would be moaning about it, I certainly wouldn't be tempted to start in N gauge unless modelling the very current scene and able to scoop up Pendolinos, IEPs, TPE sets and 221s.

[grahame]

7 minutes ago, RichardT said:

Sounds like you’re glad we’re all disappointed Grahame.
 

 I haven’t noticed many expectations for “all new” items on any N gauge fora. 

 

 

Not so, but I made it clear, having exchanged emails with Bachmann, that all new items were unlikely to be announced until the mid year (summer and autumn) announcements. So expectations for the spring announcement would likely be light (nothing all new, no coach reruns, etc) although the number of wagon reruns is encouraging.

 

And yes, there has been quite an expectation for new items even if you haven't seen it. In the last 24 hours, on another RMweb thread, Woodenhead wish listed "a first generation DMU that is not a 101 or 108" and Roy LS said "I would love something steam that is brand spanking new". And I'd certainly like to see their EPB shrunk down to N gauge. There have been others of course.

 

 

 

[grahame]

8 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

 

Each quarterly announcement comes along and the same hopes are elicited, some basic Mk1 Seconds, some Mk2as, some Mk2F seconds, brakes etc.

 

Without Farish giving some indication that they appreciate the gap and are actively planning to address it then I can understand why some are exasperated by the announcements.  

 

They did give that indication (at last year's DEMU showcase) and mentioned that coaches would be rerun. Just that it probably wouldn't be untill mid 2023. Hold your nerve, I'm sure they will eventually appear.

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by grahame