davebem

Thanks thats incredibly useful.

Had a lucky find with these, my local model shop re-opened after lockdown this week and had some TSOs left so I snapped up all the blue & grey ones they had. For anyone that still needs some they had a couple of Intercity TSO left (Signal Box in Anstey Leics) and have a buy 4 get 5th coach free offer. I need some advice on the prototypes of these farish releases, I assume they are early or as built for Eastern region numbered for Deltic formations? They look great behind my large log Dapol 50, but to be prototypical for my mainly western region layout mid to late 80s what modifications would i need to make, e.g. renumbering? Current formation based on some images I found: BG(mk1)+FO+FO+RMB(mk1)+TSO+TSO+TSO.

Id certainly purchase a large logo blue and railfreight red stripe one. Just think how good they would look at the head of a rake of the soon to be released revolution Cawood PFAs?

Does anyone happen to know if they stock Farish/N gauge stuff?

I hope its ok to re-use this thread but Id really like Dapol to do another run of these, its a nice model but you cant find some common and should be popular versions of it anywhere, e.g. large logo BR blue or grey?

Its interesting if the manufacturers have done that market research and deliberately following this kind of approach? But due to higher standards and our demands we are probably at a point now where if they take more time to get it as perfect as possible during development that the investment in more complicated but accurate and detailed tooling pays off in the longer run? If the Heljan 47 is the ultimate 47 it would have a longer life (think like the accurscale 55 has potential), it would pay off for Heljans end to end extra investment made in it more than the original 47 tooling (and/or bachmanns).

I missed the bandwagon on these as I need at least 4X TSOs although Im sure I saw a class 50 on a whole rake of FOs once? Fingers crossed for the next announcement.

Nice nod to Graham Farish that. Id like to know more about the re-engineering of the n gauge 60, so far we know they are offering a sound version so the chassis and interface is being tweaked, will there be any lighting/body tooling and coupling improvements too?

I guess its hard to model this unless you can find some HO class 66s

It has slipped my radar one of the class 60s was getting sound, so assuming the chassis is being retooled with a up to date dcc interface for the other versions too then, its good news they are updating out of date models.

I guess its important to note that this is not just what is due to hit the shops from them this quarter, theres also some reliveries of SR N class, 66s, 40s, 108s and a whole bunch of different 16t mineral wagons previously announced all due in next couple of weeks as well.

Im after a couple of the retooled Farish Mk1 guvs in plain blue or express parcels branded blue, non-weathered. They seem really hard to get hold of!

TT gauge is underated and the missing sweet spot in my opinion, track will be more realistic looking ready to plant plug and play dcc version (think of kato unitrack but weathered). Couplings will be a smaller version of kadee buckeyes, rtr stock made to rapido like standards, A3/A4 and matching coaches, 08, 37, 47 with mk1s and some simple airbraked era wagons.

I researched into this once, as above Im sure ive seen a picture or postcard of mainly engineers/ballast wagons in early 60s but i cant find it.

It doesnt look like much is coming from them yet although they did manage a lot before christmas (mk2s, 8F, some 47s/55s and 31s). Now theyve switched to quarterly announcements which includes new items that are max 3 months away from hitting the shops we should find out sometime by Easter I guess. Despite this there is the previous announcend 'catalogue' backlog stuff like the 319/158s to still deliver with no eta.

Wow been a while since I last checked back on this thread..they look fantastic. I have to say that if you compare the price to a smiliar sized locomotove from other manufacturers (e.g. rrp 149.95 for class 60/50 then factoring in the extra detailing all round and seperate parts needed for the roof it seems like a pretty good deal to me. Im off to look at some electrification/catenary...

Useful guide thanks. Your layout looks good too, any links to it?

The image with the 31s on a rake of BAA coil carriers is also rubbing it in, been after some of those for a while!

Thats a very good point, tempted to pre order my first sound loco 31 now!

I was looking for a video before comitting, one did surface of the forthcoming Farish 8F with sound. I guess you could order the non-sound fitted 31 and decide whether to retrofit later if its available seperately, the Bachmann website oddly shows the sound fitted 31s are expected before the normal ones?

Yes same here, I hope they do the earlier white PBA version for us era8 modellers! I dont think the tooling is any different?

I really wanted a coal sector 31 for nuclear flasks, it looks like the petroleum 319 they are offering had coal sector brandings and crewe depot plaques at some point though so perhaps decals can be applied over them!

They are good shouts, also the OTA? For reliveries looking at the OO gauge range might give clues (rfd/dutch 47, ews/loadhaul/intercity/europhoenix 37s). I just hope theres a rerun of some bog standard stuff, like br blue GUVs. Ive been to a few different model shops recently, and stocks of farish n gauge stuff is all very low?

On the latest batch, the gears are different, they are white and appear to be made out of a different plastic. Perhaps its worth contacting Bachmann to see if you can order a spare bogie (or a pair).

Tried searching for this but couldnt find anything. When I first turn my dynamis controller on, all the locos on the track acknowledge and do a very brief 'shuffle'. In other words the motor turns for probably half a second, but on the smaller farish locos like the 20s and 25s this is sometimes enough to see them jolting out of their stopped positions and in extremes can shunt wagons off through their buffer stops! Is this normal behaviour for all dcc controllers? Is there a way to disable this? A similar acknowledgement happens when putting locos in double header mode or writing new addresses.