Class 60 Production Update March 2025

Warbonnet · March 26

With our recent visit to China we have been able to oversee the final production stages of several of our models.

We have already brought you the first hand progress reports for our Class 89 and Class 50 projects in recent weeks

, along with our Buckjumpers, which we inspected in production. Now it's the turn of the Class 60!

We've been a bit quiet on our "Tugs" lately, but they've been progressing well in the background.

When we visited the factory a couple of weeks ago, we saw that painting was complete, printing was almost complete, and final assembly was now underway. It was very interesting to see these processes unfold over our time in the factory. For instance, checking out the paint masking tools made to spray the models.

What has blown us away about our 60 has been the sheer demand for them, with the production run eclipsing our Class 50 first production run! It seems many of you were quite taken with our model of these mountain movers.

The negative effect of such demand and larger production run is that it is taking longer than we planned for to get them all made. While we had hoped to have them here at the end of Q1 2025, it will now be late Q2 2025. We apologise for this slight delay, but we wanted to make sure that everyone got their tug!

We will show off production samples in mid April, so keep an eye out for those, along with a sound demonstration around the same time.

There is still a small amount left for pre-order, which you can do so below. Don't miss out, they're going to be very special indeed. With a price tag starting at just £169.95 each, and a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer who has produced the Diesel Locomotive of The Year in all the awards for the last three years running (as voted for by you!), it promises to be another special release from us.