Photo courtesy John Gowan
Photo courtesy John Gowan
A big thanks to John Gowan for sharing these excellent photos of his weathered and detailed 56120. We’ve really enjoyed seeing photos of customer’s weathered Class 56s, looking forward to more from run two of the Class 56 arriving in 2025 https://www.cavalexmodels.com/cavalex-class-56-secondrun
August 2024 saw another successful visit to Chester Cathedral for Pete Waterman and his Rail nuts team with Making Tracks 4 which attracted 39,232 visitors with 4,014 members of the public having the experience of driving trains on the layout. Making Tracks 4, this year featuring Watford Junction railway station, continues to raise the profile of the hobby and help inspire people to get involved in model railways.
Having the opportunity to run our Class 60 samples on Making Tracks has provided us with invaluable running as part of the test and evaluation procedure within the development process of the project.
Our thanks to Pete Waterman, Chris Clenton, Phil Moreton and the Railnuts team for their continued support.
It has been great to see our Class 60s running on Making Tracks and also 56008. This particular model has been putting in the miles and it is estimated that since August last year it has covered over 40 miles!
Making Tracks with Pete Waterman and the Railnuts makes a return to Chester Cathedral with their new layout Watford Junction which features parts of the World Record Largest Portable Model Railway modelling Watford Junction.
Measuring 64ft x 12ft, Making Tracks 4 – Up to the Junction, will be open each week in August Monday to Saturday giving visitors the opportunity to watch or drive trains on this incredible layout.
The event opens on August 1 and runs until August 31 between 10am and 5pm on weekdays and 10am and 4pm on Saturdays. The Making Tracks exhibit is closed on Sundays and August 16.
For more information, please visit the Chester Cathedral website for more details:
https://www.chestercathedral.com/
Cavalex are excited to be visiting Making Tracks on Monday the 5th of August.
If you are planning to visit, please come and say hello and see some of our products running on Making Tracks 4, including decorated samples of our forthcoming Class 60 locomotive.
Thanks to DB Cargo U.K., we recently had a very enjoyable day out at Toton depot.
Look out for more content from our visit coming soon….
It is always nice to see a model alongside the prototype, here is the Cavalex 56098 with the real locomotive.
Our thanks to GBRf for their help and support with our Class 56 project and to UKRL at Leicester for allowing us to visit their depot for this event.
During the visit to Leicester it was nice to see some of the staff involved in painting both 56098 and 56081. Thank you to Tony Middleton, Drew Ciupek and Jamie Green.
Also our thanks to Rob Reedman for allowing us to use his superb photos on the box for our GBRf Farewell Railtour twin pack.
Continued testing of our Class 60 has been taking place whilst we await pre-production samples from the factory. 60049 looked excellent this week on a rake of BBAs - a big thank you to the Railnuts and Making Tracks team for hosting us and testing the Class 60s. More news to come on the Class 60 project over the next few days!
Photo courtesy Jack Taylor
We had a great time at DEMU Showcase last weekend - a big thank you to everyone that visited our stand and the show organisers for a great time at the show! It was excellent to show off our painted Class 60 samples, and put them to work on Deadmans Lane. Thanks to Jack Taylor for this excellent photo of the GBRF example.
We’re looking forward to attending the Rails Of Sheffield shop event tomorrow - if you’re in the area, please do come and say hello!
Following the incredible reception of the first run of our first locomotive, we are proud to reveal the next range of locomotives that make up the second production run of our Class 56 Locomotive, ready to pre-order from our range of Cavalex retailers.
Read more here: https://www.cavalexmodels.com/cavalex-class-56-secondrun
Cavalex Models are pleased to share the final addition to the Cavalex Class 60 range is 60001 “Steadfast” in as delivered condition. In addition to the wealth of accurately reproduced detail that you would expect from Cavalex Models, the model also includes the following unique features, across a custom tooling suite to replicate the unique 60001 in as delivered 1989 condition.
Read more here: https://www.cavalexmodels.com/60001-launch