I for one would like a Metrovick Co-Bo!

I do hope Heljan, Hornby, et all start in N gauge.  Anyone imagine a RTR Hattons Garratt in N?  I for one would love to see a 42xx in N gauge as my model will be set in cornwall, not to mention decent a Castle and County class.  I also wish Dapol/Kernow would shrink the well tank, but I think the size is a limiter on that one.

It's not just about loco's either, some decent up to date pullmans (including Devon Belle Obo car) and some nice Hawksworths would be nice...

I'm not sure about Heljan, as their output tends to be a bit specialist/niche even for the OO market! Hornby on the other hand? I'm frankly surprised that they haven't resurrected Minitrix yet, although it has been said in the past that Dapol & Hornby have a close working relationship. I don't know how true that is though and with Dapol re-entering the OO market, one wonders how close any such relationship would remain (if it ever existed).

At the moment, the N Gauge market is only about 25% the size of OO, so Heljan would be hard pushed to justify the costs for entering N Gauge.

All the popular models they do in OO, such as the 26,27,33,47, Hymek and Western have been done in N already and I doubt there would be a lot of demand for a Baby Deltic or Class 15 at the moment.

heljan would probably need to make at least 1000 of each to break even and would they really sell?

Heljan have happily gone into the O gauge RTR diesel market which is a fraction of OO as well so I am not sure it is just market size.  I suspect (hope for Heljan's sake) that profitability comes into it as well.

Heljan have reasonably frequently been asked if they would consider N and have consistently said no. No doubt they will now go ahead and announce their N range 

Cheers, Mike

Quote from: red_death on December 12, 2012, 04:00:43 PM

No doubt they will now go ahead and announce their N range 

Oh, so you haven't heard then?  I thought it was common knowledge. 

H

Heljan have just released several versions of the class 23. That is one model I am sure would sell in decent numbers