Graham Farish announce new tooling and sound upgrades for its Class 20/0 in N gauge.

Contributed by: Graham Muspratt

20 Mar 2026 00:00am

Graham Farish has announced new tooling and sound upgrades for its Class 20/0 in N gauge.

The iconic BR Class 20 Diesel Locomotives are famous for working in pairs and today, Graham Farish announced a pair of major enhancements for its popular N Scale models. Firstly, new tooling has been developed to allow the locomotives originally built for Scotland, with their large cab side windows and token catcher recesses, to be modelled faithfully and with multiple variants to depict different stages of their working lives. In addition, a new chassis has been developed and now incorporates a speaker and Next18 DCC decoder socket, allowing SOUND FITTED models to be offered for the first time.

Graham Farish’s high-fidelity N Scale model of the BR Class 20/0 was first introduced in 2012 and the original tooling suite catered for the locomotives first delivered to English depots, with small cab side windows and both disc headcodes and the later central headcode boxes, as fitted to the final 100 locomotives. New tooling has been developed allowing models of the locomotives originally built for Scotland to be modelled; these had larger cab side windows with recessed bodywork below and the expanded tooling suite allows locomotives to be modelled both with and without the tablet catcher fitted into the recesses, or with the recesses plated flush as occurred in later years.
Alongside the new tooling, the Graham Farish Class 20/0 now benefits from a new chassis and gearbox permitting the reconfiguration of the internal components. This has allowed the model’s technical specification to be upgraded with the addition of a speaker and the Next18 DCC Decoder interface so that the N Scale Class 20/0 can be offered with SOUND FITTED for the first time.
The first releases of the new and upgraded Class 20/0s will be centred around the locomotives originally built for Scotland including a pair in BR Green, one of which is fitted with a tablet catcher. Two BR Blue machines will be available, both of which retain their cab side recesses, while a final pair wear the iconic ‘Red Stripe’ livery of BR Railfreight – these locomotives had their recesses plated over by the time they received their new colours but still retain the larger cab side windows.

Six new versions have been announced, each in DCC ready and DCC Sound Fitted variants. Delivery is scheduled late 2026:
371-030A Class 20/0 Disc Headcode & Tablet Catcher D8032 BR Green (Late Crest)
371-030B Class 20/0 Disc Headcode & Tablet Catcher Recess D8102 BR Green (Roundel)
371-032B Class 20/0 Disc Headcode & Tablet Catcher Recess 20077 BR Blue
371-032C Class 20/0 Disc Headcode & Tablet Catcher Recess 20098 BR Blue
371-039 Class 20/0 Disc Headcode 20090 BR Railfreight (Red Stripe)
371-039A Class 20/0 Disc Headcode 20104 BR Railfreight (Red Stripe)
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