I've seen elsewhere, and 34C also seems to confirm in the 2009 rolling stock thread that one of the models for 2009 will be a class 395 Javelin EMU.
Pat Hammond isn't giving anything away in the MREmag but he does say that the 2009 range is not affected by the credit crunch, probably because the range was under development before the severity of the situation hit. There are new models that we expected and a few surprises.
So what did we expect? Anyone remember what topped the 2007 and 2008 wish lists?
LNER 2-8-0 is it an 04?
GWR 42xx or 72xx?
Signals
I suppose the Javelin is one of the surprises as I don't think it was in a wish list - but its not really a surprise given the classes use in the forthcoming Olympics. Probably the train will have a very high profile, being named after Olympians. Anyone know how many mouldings are required for a 5 car set?
Basset Lowke "O" guage will appear in the catalogue
Bad news is they still persist in an embargo so that model railway editors can rehash the press release for publication(Bachmann do it so much better simply releasing details to all at the toy fair). Good news is the info is released on Christmas Eve instead of New Year , although I'll be waiting for Santa to deliver 2008 releases (I wish!)
Russell
Pat Hammond isn't giving anything away in the MREmag but he does say that the 2009 range is not affected by the credit crunch, probably because the range was under development before the severity of the situation hit. There are new models that we expected and a few surprises.
So what did we expect? Anyone remember what topped the 2007 and 2008 wish lists?
LNER 2-8-0 is it an 04?
GWR 42xx or 72xx?
Signals
I suppose the Javelin is one of the surprises as I don't think it was in a wish list - but its not really a surprise given the classes use in the forthcoming Olympics. Probably the train will have a very high profile, being named after Olympians. Anyone know how many mouldings are required for a 5 car set?
Basset Lowke "O" guage will appear in the catalogue
Bad news is they still persist in an embargo so that model railway editors can rehash the press release for publication(Bachmann do it so much better simply releasing details to all at the toy fair). Good news is the info is released on Christmas Eve instead of New Year , although I'll be waiting for Santa to deliver 2008 releases (I wish!)
Russell