This was from Pat Hammonds site Model railway Express the news is it is to be a 9F
Bachmann's three new locomotives this year are to be the Class 108 Heritage DMU, a Fairburn 2-6-4 tank and a Class 9F. The news broke at the Toyfair in London today when the new Bachmann catalogue was released. The company's MD, Graham Hubbard, also confirmed that they are giving rolling stock a rest this year while they catch up with the current programme. This is a new commitment by Bachmann to avoid announcing models which cannot be released in the current year.
Three versions of the 9F are planned for release in the Autumn, all in pristine condition. These are '92192' with late decals and a BR1F tender, '92116' with early decals and a BR1C tender and '92220 Evening Star' with the BR1G tender. Questioned about the problem of hiding the mechanism with so much daylight under the boiler, Bachmann's head of development, Merl Evans, showed me the drawings for the model which indicated how the chassis is to be built in two layers with daylight between and the gear train concealed behind the bracket supporting the valve gear.
The Class 9F was third in the BR Standard Steam section in last year's MREmag poll while third in the LMS section was the Fairburn tank. The latter will also be available in three pristine versions this year. These will be '2691' in LMS livery, '42096' in BR lined black with early decals and '42073 ' in BR lined black with late decals. These will have build variations and heavy internal weights to ensure good pulling power.
The Class 108 DMU includes two cars (DMBS and DMCL) and, again, three pristine versions will be released this year. These will be BR green with whiskers, BR blue/grey and one in NSE livery. The numbers on these are not yet available. They will have differing cab and roof styles, full underfloor equipment, detailed interiors and directional lighting.
Amongst models on display were six versions of the new Class 66. These were '66405' Malcolm Logistics Services blue, '66612 Forth Raider' in Freightliner green, '66200 Railway Heritage Committee' in EWS red and yellow, '66135' also in EWS red and yellow, '66610' in Freightliner green and '66701' in GBRf blue.
Amongst the new liveries on existing models in the Bachmann range are the
0-4-0 saddle tank (Percy) in GWR lined greed as '311'; four new Class 20s - '20023' Raifreight red stripe with discs, '20132' Raifreight red stripe with code boxes, '20052' weathered BR blue with discs, 'D8307' weathered BR blue with code boxes; 3 pristine Class 08s - '08683' EWS, '08375' BR blue and 'D3032' BR green; 3 pristine Class 57XX Pannier tanks - '5786' GWR, '7739' BR black with early decals and '5757' BR black with late decals; Jinty '47506' in BR plain black with late decals and '47279' with early decals (also on display was '47253' in BR red with late decals); Class 40 'D210 Empress of Britain' in BR green and '40169' in BR blue; Class 170/4 in ScotRail First Group livery; Class 55 '55013 The Black Watch' in BR blue; 3 Ivatt Class 4s - '43047' with late decals, '43160' with early decals and '3001' in LMS black; 3 Class 57s - '57301 Scot Tracy' in Virgin livery, '57602 Restormel Castle' in First Great Western green and '57008 Freightliner Explorer' in Freightliner livery; '30850 Lord Nelson' in BR green with early decals; 3 Class 158s - ScotRail First Group livery, Metro WYPTE livery and Transpennine First Group livery; Class 04 'D2254' in weathered BR blue and '11217' weathered BR black with early decals.While there may be no new rolling stock tooling this year, there will be plenty of new liveries on wagons and new batches of renumbered coaches.
All the best Steve