The LMS Jubilee Class locomotive has long been a popular model in the Bachmann Branchline steam portfolio and for 2026 the Jubilee returns, better than ever before and with new tooling to allow models of the later-built locomotives to be offered to modern standards for the first time.
The LMS built 191 Jubilees during a 3-year period and after the first 113 were completed, changes were made to the design of the boiler resulting in the final 78 examples boasting a larger firebox created using a sloping firebox throatplate. New tooling for the Branchline Jubilee means that this model of No. 5742 ‘Connaught’, the last Jubilee built by the LMS, can be offered complete with the double chimney that it gained in 1940.
Constructed around a diecast metal running plate, the Branchline Jubilee employs precision moulded components like the boiler, firebox and cab which are then adorned with countless separate detailing parts like the metal handrails, turned brass safety valves and whistle, lamp irons, lubricators and sandboxes. With authentic pattern driving wheels and a detailed front bogie, the chassis is further enhanced with brake blocks, brake rigging and sandboxes with separate wire sandpipes.
The locomotive is coupled to a riveted Stanier tender using an adjustable drawbar to suit individual layout conditions, whilst electrical connections are incorporated into the drawbar and a poseable fallplate is fitted to the tender. Combining a finely detailed body and chassis, the tender is completed with sperate metal handrails, water pick-up gear, tank vents and lamp irons. A realistic coal load is included which is removable, beneath it the empty coal space is modelled too. Sprung metal buffers are fitted to both the front of the locomotive and the rear of the tender.
Within the cab, a detailed boiler backhead is present and the pipework and controls are enhanced with individual decoration. The ventilator on the cab roof is a separate part, allowing it to be posed in the open or closed position, or somewhere in between. The high level of decoration is not reserved only for the cab interior of course, and the model boasts an authentic rendition of its rich LMS Crimson Lake livery. The name is carried on the splasher and etched nameplates are supplied for user-fitting to complete the look of this express locomotive.
With a powerful three pole motor and a proven drive train, the Branchline Jubilee is surefooted machine that boasts electrical pickups from the driving wheels and tender wheels. Upgraded to include a firebox lighting system that works on both analogue and DCC, the DCC provision has also been enhanced and a Plux22 DCC decoder socket is now fitted in the tender along with a pre-fitted speaker making it easy to add sound, or why not opt for our SOUND FITTED model and the work’s done for you.
- Bachmann Branchline OO Scale
- Era 3
- Pristine LMS Crimson Lake livery
- Running No. 5742
- Named ‘Connaught’
- Etched Nameplates included
- Equipped with a Plux22 DCC Decoder Socket – Recommend Decoder item No. 36-570A
- Length 261mm (over couplings)