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Photo courtesy Andy Baldwin

We just wanted to wish our customers and everyone who has supported us over the past year, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

It was great to get back to a few shows at the back end of this year, we’re hoping that will continue into 2022, so we can get back to meeting customers face to face on a more regular basis.

Cav and Alex
 

The second run of our popular BBA steel carriers have arrived!

Since arriving yesterday morning, we’ve undertaken a stock take and our quality control checks are well underway. All being well the wagons will be with retailers by the weekend/early next week - thanks again to our customers for their support with this project.

Photo courtesy Mark A Stanley

BBA Second Production run - the wagons are now on UK soil after docking last week. They’re currently at the port awaiting clearance so we’re hoping to have them imminently. We will provide further updates as soon as we have the wagons and our final QC checks have been undertaken.

Following the Great Electric Train Show earlier this month, we wanted to provide an update on all of our projects. Please follow the link below to see the latest progress updates on our projects which includes additional photos of our 3D printed Class 56:
https://www.cavalexmodels.com/post-gets-update
 

Following the Great Electric Train Show earlier this month, we wanted to provide an update on all of our projects. Please follow the link below to see the latest progress updates on our HAA Project:
https://www.cavalexmodels.com/post-gets-update
 

Following the Great Electric Train Show earlier this month, we wanted to provide an update on all of our projects. Please follow the link below to see the latest progress updates on our PHA/JGA Project:
https://www.cavalexmodels.com/post-gets-update
 

Following the Great Electric Train Show earlier this month, we wanted to provide an update on all of our projects. Please follow the link below to see the latest progress updates on our TEA Project:
https://www.cavalexmodels.com/post-gets-update
 

Following the Great Electric Train Show earlier this month, we wanted to provide an update on all of our projects. Please follow the link below to see the latest progress updates on our BBA Project:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/post-gets-update

Good morning,

Thank you to all those involved in organising The Great Electric Train Show last weekend, this was the first show that we had attended for over 18 months and it was great to be back.

Certainly to us it felt busy and good to see the hobby starting to return to some sort of normality.

Meeting people face to face and talking about modelling made you realise just how much we have missed shows. 

Thank you to everyone that took the time to visit our stand and say hello. We had a very enjoyable weekend.

Thank you Mike for letting us run a few PGAs on your layout, I am not entirely sure what the working was passing through Oak Road but it looked very good behind the two 37s!!

The Class 56 looked right at home, dare I say the first of many.....

Good to see you, Ian and Rhys. Hope you had a good weekend.

45 minutes ago, Erixtar1992 said:

Felt very honoured to have been trusted to borrow the KBA sample overnight after GETS on sat.  Got some photos of it on Harefield.

thanks to the Cavalex team, was most impressed by you chaps, all very kind, approachable and lots of knowledge! 

 

Good morning Eric, it was nice to meet you too, thanks for the photos of Harefield . We are very pleased that you like the KBA barrier wagons.

I was a little worried that we would never see it again.....

Two quick Bardon teasers ahead of this weekend at GETS - please come and say hello and have a look at the simply stunning underframe on the first EP samples of our Bardon PHA/JGA hoppers.

A quick teaser from us ahead of GETS this weekend - please come and say hello and have a look at the variations in design on our 3D printed class 56. We’re really excited to be back at shows after a long break!

Photo courtesy Phil Grain

The first Engineering Prototype samples of our PHA/JGA bogie hopper wagons have arrived and these will be on display at The Great Electric Train Show this weekend.

If you are attending the show then please visit our stand to view the samples and say hello.
 

19 hours ago, IRC said:

Evening all,

I seem to remember there being some discussion on whether these will go round 2nd radius curves. Do we know if that is the case yet please?

Good afternoon IRC,

The model has been designed to run with third radius curves, however, it may negotiate second radius curves, but we cannot confirm that yet. There is a wealth of detail on the bogies and underframe which potentially could snag whilst operating on second radius curves.
This is something we can advise on in the future once the first samples have been tested.

On 10/09/2021 at 23:49, jools1959 said:

Wow, didn’t see that one coming, so I’ll definitely be ordering one.  Can I ask, will the nameplate be coming as separate item or will it be attached to the model?  I’d like to try and model it as it was in June 2019, without the nameplate, as per the pictures.

 

If you do another run later on, DCR 56103 would be great as they were usually found working together.

 

 

Good morning Jools1959,

The nameplates will be supplied in the box as a separate item. Just for information, we also do not plan to print the nameplates on either.

Hope that helps.

Cavalex DCR Class 56 - we are pleased to announce DCR 56091 “Driver Wayne Gaskell” as a part of the Cavalex Class 56 range.

We are really excited to be able to offer modellers and enthusiasts with an interest in today’s freight scene a model of 56091 in DC Rail livery. Our thanks to DC Rail for their help and for working with us to produce this model.

Features of Cavalex DCR 56091:

- Distinctive fabricated cab shape

- Cutaway buffer beam

- Diamond mesh side grilles, cantrail grilles and roof grille

- Steel cab and cab side window frames

- Additional air conditioning vent on the second man’s side

- Etched “Driver Wayne Gaskell” name plates

CM - 56091 – DCR

Good evening JR_P, thank you for your message and feedback.

We are glad to hear that you are pleased to see our N PGA project move forward.

Regarding the protection panels, the configuration that you mention, protection panels with ladders and walkways, in Lafarge livery did not seem that popular a choice when we previously offered the PGA in N. 
What we are currently offering is the most common configuration for that livery, ladders and walkways but without protection panels. Whilst some examples did continue with protection panels fitted in this particular livery, from research conducted it seems that more ran without the protection panels. This is why we are offering this particular configuration to cover the more common wagon configuration.

Here are a few links to Flickr which I thought might be useful:

14828 kept the protection panels:

We will certainly discuss the protection panels and the Lafarge livery with Rails of Sheffield as a suggestion for future production runs.

Many Thanks.
 

6 hours ago, Revolution Mike said:

Great news! Really pleased to see these resurrected. 
 

For the thick/lazy amongst us which were the latest versions - I presume the Lafarge then the blanked out and white ones?

 

Cheers Mike

Thanks Mike.

Yes you are correct, Lafarge, white with patch and then plain white.

Thanks again to you and Ben for your support. It is much appreciated.

10 hours ago, 47423 said:

I've not received an email to pay the balance, I'll send an email this morning. 

Good evening Jon,

Thanks for your post and email.

Hopefully you have now received the email.

Please do get in contact if you need anything else.

TEA project update:

We have contacted all customers regarding the second payments for our forthcoming TEA wagons ahead of production starting next month. If you have not heard from us or have any questions please let us know.

We are still open for new pre-orders via our website below, however this will close once production commences, with our retailers stocking the TEAs when they arrive in the UK.

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/shop

On 09/08/2021 at 01:07, XChris said:

@Grimleygrid when should we be expecting them to hit the shops? I've already got mine pre-ordered so looking forward to getting them!

Thank you Chris, we are also very excited about the second run, especially the new liveries.

Feedback has been fed back to the factory and production is well underway. Unfortunately, we cannot say for certain when they will be here, however, once production has been completed, we will provide a further update and estimated delivery. This is all dependant on the factory, Covid and shipping.

Hope that helps.

3 minutes ago, TomScrut said:

@Grimleygrid looking good! Can you tell me how long these are please? I have some BZAs and BYAs I might sell to fund some and wonder how many I'd need!

Thank you Tom.

The wagons are 215mm over buffers.

Hope that helps.

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

We have received painted samples of the three new liveries being produced in our second run of our BBA wagons.

Please visit our website on the link below for the full showcase of the samples:

https://www.cavalexmodels.com/bba-2nd-run-painted-samples

Not the best quality, apologies I cannot find a higher res version, of 60084 at Hatfield and Stainforth in 2008 with a loaded working from Scunthorpe.