Model railway company Bachmann has begun making narrow-gauge diesels, with its Bachmann Narrow Gauge OO9 scale range.

392-025 Baguley-Drewry 70hp Diesel DH88 RNAD Dean Hill

The first model in the range is the small Baguley-Drewry, seventy-horsepower locomotives were originally built for use at Royal Naval Armament Depots (RNAD) at Milford Haven and Trecwn in Wales to move armaments between storage locations and transhipment sites.

Bachmann believes that the models will go well with its Narrow Gauge RNAD Wagons, saying that they “pack a lot into a small space”. The models use a high proportion of die-cast parts, which provide them with a running performance that represents that of the four-wheeled loco. There are several details which are fitted separately to the model, including:

• air filter mounted on top of the bonnet
• headlights (non-functional) at the front and rear of the cab
• windscreen wipers
• exhaust conditioner.

Inside the driver’s cab and modelled chairs and controls.

The coreless motor is fitted with a flywheel, which provides drive to both axles. Each axle runs in separate metal bearings.

There is electrical pick-up from all four wheels. The couplings are mounted into NEM coupling pockets, which can be removed and the bufferbeams swapped out. This enables fully-detailed alternatives that do not feature the cut-outs required for the OO9 coupling.

The livery application uses authentic colours, logos and typefaces to capture every element of the prototype, including the maker’s name on the front of the locomotive and the fuel gauge on the bonnet side.

Window frames are highlighted in black and the cab interior is decorated, and there are ‘wasp stripes’ at either end.

Model features:

• Bachmann Narrow Gauge OO9 Scale
• Era 7
• Locomotive is now Preserved
• Pristine RNAD Dean Hill Yellow livery
• Running No. DH888
• Accessory Pack
• NEM Coupling Pockets
• Powerful Coreless Motor and Flywheel
• Detailed and Decorated Cab Interior
• Equipped with a Next18 DCC Decoder Socket – Recommend Decoder item No. 36-567B
• Length 59mm (over couplings)

Baguley-Drewry built these locomotives in Burton-on-Trent at the start of the 1980s. They were among the last locos to be built by the company, which closed in 1984. After their deployment in the armaments depots, the fleet was later transferred to Dean Hill in Wiltshire which remained operational until 2004.

In 2009, the remaining railway assets were sold, which meant that the Baguley-Drewrys could move into preservation or private ownership. Although built to a gauge of 2ft. 6in., some have since been re-gauged to suit the railways that they now work at.

Bachmann is also producing a model of the loco with green livery. It is using a rich green for the bodywork, accentuated by red bufferbeams and black chassis, and finished with the maker’s name on the front of the locomotive and the fuel gauge on the bonnet side. Window frames are highlighted in black and the cab interior is decorated.

Model features:

• Bachmann Narrow Gauge OO9 Scale
• Era 9
• Locomotive is now Preserved
• Pristine Green livery
• Accessory Pack
• NEM Coupling Pockets
• Powerful Coreless Motor and Flywheel
• Detailed and Decorated Cab Interior
• Equipped with a Next18 DCC Decoder Socket – Recommend Decoder item No. 36-567B
• Length 59mm (over couplings)

More information about the models is in the attached document and in a recently published web-story: https://news.bachmann.co.uk/2023/08/product-highlight-baguley-drewry-70hp-diesels/.