New Farish Class 44, 45 and 46 Models Cancelled

[Ian Morton]

News just in from Bachmann (email to dealers)
:

Due to unforeseen production issues that have arisen at the factory, the following items are being withdrawn from the Graham Farish 2015/16 range with immediate effect.

371-203 Class 44 44001 BR Blue Weathered

371-577 Class 45 45024  BR Blue Weathered

371-588 Class 46 D158 BR Green Small Yellow Panel Weathered

These products may possibly be re-introduced in future years, but until issues have been overcome it will not be possible to release products to market.

[JasonBz]

That is a bit of a shame.
Better make sure  I get hold of one of the older ones before the price shoots up!

[bridgiesimon]

sounds much more like a specific issue with that model, maybe tooling failure for the chassis or something. The Chinese economy etc would affect all models not just the Peaks wouldn't it?

Best wishes
Simon

[steve836]

I'm with Jason----Cromford definitely needs a peak or three

[Mr PJ]

Hello,

Very strange as my order at Hattons for some MK1 SO's has just been cancelled as "sold out" even though they are not expected according to the Farish website to Nov/Dec. Annoying as I ordered them in May...
I wonder if Farish have knocked these on the head too?

Perhaps with the peaks they will only be re-introduced once the chassis have been re-tooled as DCC ready and lights, as they say these may be produced in future years? I would have hoped by then the models would be updated.

Regards,
Paul

[sparky]

I was also hoping for DCC ready peaks by now..could be years by the sound of it....perhaps dapol could oblige..oh that would be decades going by the Class 33 and 50 development times....I`d pay more if they could just build them somewhere in the world...maybe even the UK..perhaps if we were prepared to stump up more we would still have Farish in the UK.. is it feasible to add lights as part of a DCC conversion of the existing DC models?

[Adam1701D]

Perhaps they will do a retool and bring us a DCC-ready peak with sealed beam headlights (I'd like 45106 in green if anyone's listening).

[Roy L S]

sounds much more like a specific issue with that model, maybe tooling failure for the chassis or something. The Chinese economy etc would affect all models not just the Peaks wouldn't it?

Best wishes
Simon

Either a problem with the tooling (which sounds most likely) or they have simply decided that the existing non DCC ready chassis is no longer what the Market demands. Either way it means I am relieved to already have a 44 and 45 (the second at a bargain price from Hattons about three years ago).

Roy

[Mr PJ]

It was commented when they announced these models that they were perhaps the last non-DCC release by Farish, at least for diesels. Perhaps poor pre-orders has influenced this, and a production line problem is not considered worth resolving with the intended DCC ready re-tools on the (possibly distant!) horizon?

[Parky]

So where does this leave the Class 40 ?

Is the chassis not going to be common across all models, or are they planning to make separate ones

This is where I question the numbers game as I would have thought a Class 40 with DCC & sound provision would sell in big numbers. Maybe it's the body of the Peak's that has issues and not the chassis

[red_death]

Is the chassis not going to be common across all models, or are they planning to make separate ones

At a guess I would agree with people who have speculated on a problem with the moulds - it sounds plausible.  Hopefully Farish will take the opportunity to re-do the chassis and offer more variants - the sealed beam headlight seems very obvious!

The Chinese don't typically use a common chassis across models so I would have thought the 40 will be all new.

Cheers, Mike

[steve836]

Is the chassis not going to be common across all models, or are they planning to make separate ones

At a guess I would agree with people who have speculated on a problem with the moulds - it sounds plausible.  Hopefully Farish will take the opportunity to re-do the chassis and offer more variants - the sealed beam headlight seems very obvious!

The Chinese don't typically use a common chassis across models so I would have thought the 40 will be all new.

Cheers, Mike

The 1COCO1 wheel arrangement was peculiar to the peaks, so the chassis wouldn't be suitable for anything else, n'est ce pas?

[robert shrives]

At TINGS  Farish staff advised that the 40 was an all new chassis - yet to be started in earnest- Colin Albright noted the replacement head designer, as he is retiring,  has the 40 has his first big project. Also noted get peaks while you can as spares etc!

Robert   

[Luke Piewalker]

Looks like acquiring a second hand 44 and 45 the other week was a stroke of luck then! 

[Newportnobby]

Just glad my dear old green 45, 45 and 46 are still going strong