Quote from: RailsByRick on January 25, 2026, 04:15:27 PMVery disappointed to hear that Knapford has been cancelled. It's becoming a very bad habit of Bachmann's to announce a highly anticipated item only to cancel it a few months later.

Bachmann, please stop announcing new items unless you are 100% certain they'll be arriving to market. It is very tiring to constantly get our hopes up and then get let down shortly after. You are damaging your customers' faith.

Indeed.

I was about to post something similar - I am ok with a quiet year of announcements to allow the backlog to clear; I don't want another Duncan situation whereby everyone gets excited just for it to be cancelled due to technical issues. Do the R&D, make sure a product is feasible, commit to manufacture, then announce it. I would rather wait 6 months for something that is certainly going to happen, than 2 years for a nope!

DCC Ready Daisy and Duck are now available in the UK! Got my Daisy at the weekend

Hoping for more to be added to the range, particularly those from the early model seasons. My next personal preferences are Diesel, Bill and Ben.

Quote from: TEHNewClearwaterFeatures on August 06, 2025, 07:46:39 PMJudy & Jerome The Breakdown Cranes - New Tooling

If the faces were removable so that they would look like their early seasons' model counterparts, I'd be very happy with that.

Quote from: Awesometrain77 on October 26, 2024, 08:36:16 PMIf they do do a classic breakdown train it will probably be a faceless Judy/Jerome expect no modifications . With that being said, I do think it's a good idea.

The faces on the all Troublesome Trucks and Spiteful are removeable (certainly for HO, not sure about the other scales); kill two birds with one stone and design the Breakdown Train with detachable Judy/Jerome faces.

EDIT: this has got be thinking, as the Engines faces are also removeable, how about a "Faces Pack" for each character? Have 5 different faces or so - neutral, smiley, sleepy, cross, shocked... that can be easily interchanged with the original.

Quote from: Awesometrain77 on October 26, 2024, 12:12:22 PMOkay so something we could get is more DCC engines as the chip shortage is over .

Gordon Henry James Toby and Edward are the 5 that are DCC ready in the UK.

I do think it's about time we got a breakdown train in the line . Rocky would be way to pricy Bachmann sells his basis for a lot of money .

Judy and Jerome would be a safer option as they are smaller and considering Bachmann sells a breakdown train similar to them for around $87 which is not outrageous for a piece of stock in this day and age . I think that they could be introduced into the lineup . A faceless variant could also happen. And probably could be a really good seller for older fans .

I stopped buying engines when DCC ready models became available, with the hope that I could expand my collection with those; but nothing seemed to happen for the last 3/4 years - so DCC engines gets a big yes from me.

Also the Breakdown Train, in fact anything from the early model years is something I'm certainly interested in (Old Coaches, Trevor, Works Unit)

Quote from: [email protected] on October 08, 2024, 03:36:23 PMreally called Thomas, what paint colors and brands did you use for the Old Coaches repaints?

Wilko home brand gloss spray paint.

Antique White
Lawn Green
Black

Old and Orange Branchline Coaches are something I would certainly be interested in buying.

A few years ago, I made an attempt make my own by altering and painting a few Annie/Clarabels:



Whilst not perfect, I am happy with how they turned out; but it would be nice to have official releases of them.

I spotted Knapford Station on a Bachmann facebook post earlier this week, now they posted another where it is rather predominant...

Ever since Bachmann UK started introducing DCC-ready locos, I have held off buying more (I already had the Famous Eight!). Now with Edward and Henry being available, I am just waiting on Duck so I can upgrade my collection. I am sure at some point the rest of the fleet will be made DCC-ready, with Diesel and Bill & Ben, followed by Donald & Douglas top of my wish list!

I am also hoping the Narrow Gauge engines will be made DCC-ready, but I think that is a long shot given their size and design.

2020 catalog is up:

https://resources.bachmanntrains.com/Bachmann_2020/html5/index.html

HO: page 6
N: page 135
Large: page 211

Yep... the blue and red carriages looked too awesome to resist, so Ive caved in and moved into Narrow Gauge!! Hoping Peter Sam will put in an appearance in time for Xmas.

So what I would like to get announced this year is:

1 loco (Sir Handel/Duncan - dont mind which as long as the other is announced in the next wave)
3 rolling stock (D Fusit Wagon, Brake Vans in two colours; I can wait another year for green carriages)

About a year ago, I made an oval of track (about 6x4 foot) and timed how fast my locos would go around it at full speed. Here are the results (average 5 runs):

Duck 8.3s
Henry 8.4s
Thomas 8.4s
Gordon 8.5s
James 8.5s
Percy 9.8s
Edward 10.2s
Toby 14.0s

So yeah, Toby is slow.... ****ing slow! But thats his character and why he is the first loco I bought along with Henrietta!

[dream]

N Scale

It would be awesome if Bachmann continued the inital announcement trend of 2 loco and 4 pieces of rolling stock. So for 2020:

James
Edward

Red Express Composite Coach
Red Express Brake Coach
A Tanker (Milk, Sodor Fuel or Tar)
Normal Brakevan

In futures years ideally 1 tender/long engine and 1 small engine along with 2 coaches and 2 goods wagons. For example:

Gordon/Duck, Green Express Composite Coach/Green Express Brake Coach/Tar Tanker/Troublesome van
Henry/Oliver, Red Branchline Coach/Red Branchline Brake Coach/Toad/Sodor Fuel Tanker
Daisy/Toby, Henrietta/Sodor Mail Coach/SC Ruffey/Troublesome Tanker

Of course I would not object to more being made each year 

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Quote from: InsideTrack on February 15, 2019, 09:32:04 AM
N SCALE THOMAS & FRIENDS™
Yes, we are introducing a completely NEW N scale line of Thomas & Friends™!

Item No. 58791 THOMAS the TANK ENGINE™
Item No. 58792 PERCY the SMALL ENGINE
Item No. 76094 ANNIE
Item No. 76095 CLARABEL
Item No. 77096 TROUBLESOME TRUCK #1
Item No. 77097 TROUBLESOME TRUCK #2

Oh yes  

Will these be available in the UK?

If Bachmann go into N scale, and they were easily available in the UK, then I would buy the lot and sell my HO collection in a heartbeat!