Rolling Stock Updates
There are no updates regarding our models. We expect this to remain so during the summer.
Manufacturer News
HNoll has advised that work is now in place regarding the B4/B4R, BF4 and BF7 carriages. It is too early to predict exactly what the availability will be, but it is refreshing to note that these are in the pipeline. Just as we closed for press, the article numbers and running numbers were given on their website. The FLMJ is interested in two of the brown versions!
Following the arrival of the HNoll catering carriages, reported last month, they (and the various other versions) have been reviewed in the latest edition of Modelljärnvägsmagasinet. Here is an overview. The models are presented as the original R4/R4R café and restaurant carriage, the S12 cinema and bistro carriage, and the RB11 bistro carriage. Each version has a different interior layout according to the prototype. As the interior of the toilet cubicle is not visible, this is where small tubes exist for cabling from the wheels to the roof for interior lighting, should the modeller wish to instal that. The underside and bogie details are very well picked out, as is all the bodyside and top detailing (setting this model very much apart from the Roco A7/B7 models which have not been developed since their introduction in the 1980s). Our image montage is taken from Modelljärnvägsmagasinet.
Interiors of HNoll S12 and R4R (above), the former with cinema layout to the left; and interior schemes (below) for B4R, S12, and RB11 (copied from www.jarnvag.net)
Other News
We have added some content to the Events page, in the wake of restrictions being eased in many places. We are focusing on events in the UK where the Scandinavian Railways Society is understood to be participating, or where there is likely to be a Swedish model railway; and events in Sweden that are reasonably well known and/or which we will be investigating. The events page will be updated whenever there is something to be updated, rather than at preset intervals.