Farish 2014 Train Sets and Train Packs Announcements.

[Ollie3440]

Hello all

Today Farish have announced a selection of items to kick off Bachmann's 25th Anniversary year. These being 5 Train Sets and 4 Train Packs. Full details can be found on the Bachmann website ( www.bachmann.co.uk ) but here is a summary:

Sets:
370-070 Cornish Riviera Digital Train Set
Class 42 No.D829 BR plain green livery DCC Fitted
BR MK1 BCK coach chocolate & cream livery,
BR MK1 SO coach chocolate & cream livery,
Oval of track with siding,
E-Z Command Digital Control Centre
RRP £184.95

370-080 Countryside Coal Digital Set
Class 3F Jinty No.23 SDJR blue livery
7 plank wagon 'Crane & Company'
5 plank wagon 'F. H. Silvey & Co'
Midland brake van in LMS Grey
Oval of track with siding
E-Z Command Digital Control Centre
RRP £149.95

370-140 The Steel Worker Set
Class 08 BR green livery with wasp stripes No.D3406
Three 24 ton ore hopper wagons
Oval of track
Train control and transformer
RRP £104.95

370-180 Seaside Excursion Set
Class 4F No.44044 BR black late crest livery
BR MK1 BCK coach maroon
BR MK1 SO coach maroon
Oval of track
Train control and transformer
RRP £119.95

370-220 Virgin Voyager Set
Class 220 Virgin Voyager
Oval of track
Train control and transformer
RRP £139.95

Packs:
370-300 Landship Train Pack
Class 4F Midland Railway black livery No.3848
Three WD olive green bogie bolster wagons
Three sheeted MK1 tank loads
RRP £99.95

370-400 Longmoor Military Railway Pack
WD Austerity Class No.400 'Sir Guy Williams' Longmoor Military Railway livery
Three MK1 suburban brake end coaches LMR blue livery
RRP £134.95

370-500 Cumbrian Mountain Express Pack
Coronation Class No.46229 'Duchess of Hamilton'BR maroon late crest livery
Three MK1 blue & grey livery coaches
Scenecraft 'Ais Gill' signal box
RRP £164.95

The final one is 370-2014 Bachmann N Scale Silver Anniversary Set £239.95 Unfortunately there are no details for this pack on the website.

Ollie

[davieb]

I think I will have to get the Cumbrian Mountain Express pack   

dave 

[dwgwr]

Like the sound of the Seaside Excursion set, mainly for the 4F.

[Skyline2uk]

Class 08 BR green livery with wasp stripes No.D3406

Will there shortly be some track and a controller for sale in the classifieds on here Ollie? Can't help but recall you were after a green wasp stripe 08 without weathering 

Skyline2uk

[Caz]

I like the sound of the Countryside Coal Digital Set with a SDJR 3F, there could then be an E-Z Command Digital Control Centre and a oval of track with siding in the classifieds.   

[portland-docks]

there may be a few controllers coming on then, as i think i may have to get the Longmoor WD set, the 4f military set and the cumbrian mountain express set lol

[stevieboy]

Class 08 BR green livery with wasp stripes No.D3406

Will there shortly be some track and a controller for sale in the classifieds on here Ollie? Can't help but recall you were after a green wasp stripe 08 without weathering 

Skyline2uk

Make that two controllers and loops of track!

[gc4946]

Looks like they announced some things now as they'll be in the shops this year, because they're not releasing their full 2014/15 programme until July.

I'm encouraged by their announcement of new train packs without extra track, Hornby's done these for years, and it's a long overdue initiative.

The Midland 4F pack is their Great War release, obviously.

Farish produced a J94 in Longmoor blue livery some years ago so their planned train pack of WD and Mk1s complement each other.

The other surprise is they're including a model of Ais Gill signalbox with the Duchess of Hamilton train pack. May this be the start of a set of buildings covering the Settle and Carlisle line?
It's 25 years ago this year since the line was reprieved from closure by the transport secretary.

My guess for Farish's 25th anniversary pack will be a special boxed edition containing models of class 47 D1989 with 3 Mk1s and class 03 D2014 with four or five wagons.

[gc4946]

Two other locos numbered 1989 and 2014 were built by the North Eastern Railway and kept their pre-group numbering by the LNER until 1946, when their entire fleet was re-numbered:

J25 0-6-0 1989
D20 4-4-0 2014

As well as the tooling costs involved, both classes are available in the Union Mills range so I suspect they're non-starters.

Another possibility could be a LNER K3 numbered as 1989 (post-1946 numbering) which would be a welcome development as a mixed traffic loco available in this scale.

[Agrafarfan]

2 digital train sets, 3 dc train sets, and 4 train packs. Things must be looking up for Bachfar.

Anybody noticed the OO (sorry for mentioning the scale) digital train set with sound with the e-z command controller, so it looks like the basic controller can do sound.

Back to N. I have notice the digital sets have sidings so I wonder what they have used to make the layout all live it would interesting to see what size staples they use if any cause I tried using small staples to make my layout live and it didn't work.

The fact they have got 2 digital train sets gives me encouragement to try again to make my layout all live.

[Newportnobby]

there may be a few controllers coming on then, as i think i may have to get the Longmoor WD set, the 4f military set and the cumbrian mountain express set lol

None of those have controllers P-D, so you'll be OK

[portland-docks]

do they not? are they literally just loco and some coaches?

i thought they were limited edition sets lol

[EtchedPixels]

S&D one is a nice surprise.. and the LMR too

[ParkeNd]

Mostly comprising locos only on pre-order at the moment. So not just getting rid of overstocked stuff.

[OwL]

Excellent choices, I think I will buy the Longmoor military Railway set.

We'll done Bachmann