HELJAN is progressing its new ‘OO’ and ‘O’ gauge locomotive and rolling stock projects, with an exciting list of new releases planned for the next 12 months.
Ben Jones from Heljan joined Mike Wild in the Hornby Magazine office to showcase and discuss the latest development samples including the soon to arrive all-new ‘OO’ gauge Class 45s. These are now scheduled to arrive in the shops in October covering original split centre headcode, sealed beam Class 45/0s and sealed beam Class 45/1s with Electric Train Heat equipped locomotives. Look out for the full review in HM185 – on sale from October 5 2022.
New features for the Class 45s include more sophisticated lighting with independently operated lights, a 21-pin decoder socket, tooling options for detail variations and more.
Joining the Class 45 in ‘OO’ gauge are Heljan’s all-new models of the BR Class 02 0-4-0 diesel shunter which are currently awaiting decorated samples while soon after our interview decorated samples of the unique North British prototype Bo-Bo diesel – 10800 – were received for inspection.
Also in progress is the all-new Class 26/1 for ‘OO’ gauge with new variations over the original Heljan model including underframe air tanks and locomotive’s with Scottish ‘…
