British 1:87 scale model suppliers

Some manufacturers and suppliers of items useful to modellers of British 1:87 scale

Please also see Buying second-hand British H0 in the UK.

This list cannot be definitive. Many of the entries on this page are retained only to maintain the links on other pages.
3D-printing is now much used in British H0 modelling. See the discussions about this on the Society's Groups.io site, and search Shapeways and i.materialize for examples and inspirations.

In the phone numbers given below, a zero in brackets (0) should be dialed only when you are in the same country as the supplier you are phoning.

Alan Gibson (Workshop)
PO Box 597
Oldham
Lancs OL1 9FQ
England
tel: [+44] (0)161 678 1607
sales@alangibsonworkshop.co.uk
www.alangibsonworkshop.co.uk

Manufacturer and supplier of wheels, wheelsets and related accessories

Alexander Models

Former manufacturer of kits and parts.

Allen Doherty Worsley Works Kits
19 Douglas Road
Worsley M28 2SR
England
tel: [+44] (0)161 794 7480
www.worsleyworks.co.uk
enquiries@worsleyworks.co.uk

Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own items.

APOCOPE
fabique par S.A.R.L. APOCOPA
Le Boisboeuf
44130 Bouvron
France
tel: [+33] (0)2 40 56 32 10
info@apocopa.fr
www.apocopa.fr

Manufacturer and supplier of resin wagon models. Range previously included a four-wheel container flat wagon and a covered flat wagon for GB-continent use.

Bachmann Industries Europe Ltd
Moat Way
Barwell
Leicestershire LE9 8EY
England
tel: [+44] (0)1455 841756
fax: [+44] (0)1455 841787
www.bachmann.co.uk

Bachmann is the owner of Liliput and several other well-known brand names. It is also the distributor for several companies that it does not own.

The European headquarters in Leicestershire does not supply items direct (except spares). You must order through a retailer.

Backwoods Miniatures

Former supplier of the Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-4-0T crane tank steam loco, and models in other scales.

Mousa Models (formerly Bill Bedford Models)
www.mousa-models.co.uk

Etched brass coach, wagon and loco kits and components, previously in all scales including H0.

Branchlines
PO Box 4293
Westbury
BA13 9AA
England
tel/fax: [+44] (0)1373 822231
Mon.-Thurs. 9.30-13.00, 14.00-18.00
sales@branchlines.com

Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own and other manufacturers' items.

Representive for SEM (Steam Era Models) of Australia.

Cambridge Custom Transfers
206 Nuns Way
North Arbury
Cambridge CB4 2NS
England
cctrans@hotmail.com
www.cctrans.org.uk

Manufacturers of a vast and growing range of decals, mainly for the BR steam era. All now available in 1:87 scale.

Christo Georgadidis (Balkan Models)

Christo commissioned a run of HO WD 2-10-0 (LNER 07) steam locomotive kits from DJH.

Continental Model Supply Company (CMSC)

Produced a range of 1:87 scale military vehicles.

Conrad
tel: [+49] (0)9604 4088 80
www.conrad.com
international.sales@conrad.de

Before the model was reissued by Bachmann, Conrad supplied the Plasser & Theurer 07-32 Mainliner tamper/liner track maintenance vehicle in kit form. Conrad also supply many other railway modelling items.

DJH - MODEL LOCO
DJH Engineering Ltd, Project House, Consett Business Park, Villa Real, Consett, Co. Durham, DH8 6BP
England
tel: [+44] (0)1207 500050
fax: [+44] (0)1207 599757
sales@djhengineering.co.uk
www.djhmodelloco.co.uk

Manufacturer and supplier of high quality locomotive kits and ready-to-run models.

Eisenbahn-Treffpunkt Schweickhardt GmbH (ETS)
Rathausstraße 94
71334 Waiblingen-Beinstein
Germany
tel: [+49] (0)7151 93 79 31
fax: [+49] (0)7151 3 40 76
ets@modelleisenbahn.com
www.modelleisenbahn.com

Major supplier of many manufacturers' railway and road vehicle models (mainly continental manufacturers). Vast online database of items on their web site, both current and "obsolete". Keen prices and low shipping costs for medium-to-large-sized orders.

Elaine's Trains
Phone [+44] (0)1673 857 423
elaine@elaines-trains.co.uk
Web page especially for British H0 items

Fidelis Models
PO Box 1021
Poway
CA 92074
USA
tel/fax: [+1] 858 679-9001
www.fidelismodels.com
fidelismodels@cox.net

Manufacturer of military vehicles. Supplier of own and other manufacturers' items.

Firedrake Productions

Firedrake Productions was a producer of British 1:87 scale items.

Gaugemaster
Gaugemaster House
Ford Road
Arundel
West Sussex BN18 0BN
England
tel: [+44] (0)1903 884488
fax: [+44] (0)1903 884377
sales@gaugemaster.co.uk
www.gaugemaster.co.uk

Importer and retailer of many brands of railway model product.

Gieffeci
Italy

Was the distributor of FS (Italian) railway models commissioned from Roco, including the FS Habfis ferry/chunnel wagons.

Gerard Huet
France

Original manufacturer and supplier of the ex-WD brake van and the OCEM29 ferry van. See AMF 87 for continued availability.

Hatton's

Supplier of vast quantities of train models and model railway stuff from 1946 to 2024

Ian Lindsay Models
PO Box 124
Pendle Hill
NSW 2145
Australia
tel: [+61] (0)2 6746 2741
ianlind@smartchat.net.au
www.ianlindsaymodels.com

Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own items.

Imex Model Co. Inc.

Once produced 1:87 scale fully finished die-cast models of the Chieftain and Centurion Mk III tanks.

Jocadis

Former commissioner and supplier of the HO version of the WD 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 (LNER 07) by DJH.

Former commissioner of the CM-Laser ferrywagon (Belgian type Hf) in epoche III guise, marked 'Societe Anglo Belgique de Ferry Boat'.

Kleinspoor
Hendrik de Keijserstraat 3
5041 JA Tilburg
Netherlands
tel: [+31] (0)13 5420375
fax [+31] (0)13 5421924
info@kleinspoor.nl
www.kleinspoor.nl

Manufacturer and supplier of locomotive kits.

Kristall Productions

Publishing company of the former Model Trains International and Scale Model Trains magazines, edited by Chris Ellis.

Lineside Models Produced 9ft and 10ft BR wagon underframes in 2010.

Laser (CM-Laser)
Made by Costruzioni Modellistiche S.r.l.
Italy

Former manufacturer of wagons, including a range for international traffic between continental Europe and Britain.

Lledo

Former manufacturer of die-cast model road vehicles, some of which were 1:87 scale or close.

Lledo was bought by Corgi, which was in turn bought by Hornby.

LS Models
Rue Bosfagne 31
B4950 Sourbrodt
Belgium
www.lsmodels.com
info@lsmodels.com

Commissioners of special edition train models, including wagons for Belgium-Britain ferry traffic.

Marno Ltd
www.marnoltd.co.uk

Supplied many Roco shunters!

Mercian Models

Former manufacturer of kits and parts.

Model Masters
The Barn
Church Farm
Binsted
Arundel
BN18 0LN
tel: [+44] (0)1243 552770
www.modelmasters.co.uk

Operated for many years from Weston-super-mare, now owned and operated by Scalology Ltd of Arundel.

Supplier of many continental manufacturers' railway and related products.

Model Junction (of Slough)

Former Walthers and Horizon Hobbies (Athearn) stockist.

Modellbahn-Center Hünerbein
Markt 11-15, 52062 Aachen, Germany
tel: [+49] (0)2 41 33921
fax: [+49] (0)2 41 28013
mchuenerbein@t-online.de
website

Supplier of Roco six-wheel diesel shunters and virtually every continental model in production. Also holds a vast stock of spare parts for all makes.

Patrick Delandre (D.P.M.R SARL)

Supplied APOCOPE and items from other continental manufacturers. Traded at Eurotrack (Southampton/Eastleigh).

Pb Messing Modelbouw
Hogenaardseweg 7
B 2520 Ranst
tel/fax: + 32 (0) 3 - 353.24.10
info@pb-messingmodelbouw.com
www.pb-messingmodelbouw.com

Manufacturer and supplier of own range of brass models.

PM Modellbau
Ginnheimer Landstrasse 191-195
60431 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
tel: [+49] (0)69 51 22 63
fax: [+49] (0)69 51 66 52
info@pmmodellbau.de
www.pmmodellbau.de

Manufacturer and supplier of resin road vehicle kits.

Precision Scale Models
(John Sargent)

Commissioner and supplier of the Gresley A3 locomotive, made in brass by Samhongsa.

Railscale
PO Box 111
Blaxland
NSW 2774
Australia

Manufacturer and supplier of own brass rolling stock kits.

Railway Modeller,
Continental Modeller
Peco Technical Advice Bureau
Beer, Seaton, Devon EX12 3NA
England
tel: [+44] (0)1297 20580
fax: [+44] (0)1297 20229
www.pecopublications.co.uk

Publishers of railway modelling magazines.

sb-modellbau
Ilzweg 4
D-82140 Olching
Germany
tel: [+49] (0)8142 12776
fax: [+49] (0)8142 41171
www.sb-modellbau.com
info@sb-modellbau.com

Manufacturer and supplier of Faulhaber motorising kits, including for the Liliput Plasser & Theurer track machine and for the Roco Unimog.

Scale Link Ltd
Iwerne Minster
Dorset
DT11 8QN
tel/fax: [+44] (0)1747 811817
info@scalelink.co.uk
www.scalelink.co.uk

Supplier of etched products and white metal kits.

Sharman Wheels

Former manufacturer and supplier of scale metric wheels.

Consult South Eastern Finecast about continued availability of this range or about suitable replacements.

Steam Era Models (SEM)
C/- P.O. Rhyll
Victoria 3923
Australia
web site
tel/fax: +61 3 5956 9389
sem@waterfront.net.au

Manufacturer of powered bogies and wheelsets. Full range of RP25-88 wheels, bogies and power bogies.

Represented in UK by Branchlines

T-L Decals
Drieschweg 40
53604 Bad Honnef
Germany
tel.: [+49] (0)2224-981999
kontakt@tl-modellbau.de
www.tl-modellbau.de

Supplies a vast range of train and vehicle decals.

Walthers
www.walthers.com

Mega distributor of HO products in the USA. Check their web site for availability and outlets, including GB ones.

Weico Models

Manufactured and supplied model road vehicles.

Winco

Former supplier of continental model railway products.

Worsley Works (Allen Doherty)
19 Douglas Road
Worsley M28 2SR
England
tel: [+44] (0)161 794 7480
www.worsleyworks.co.uk
enquiries@worsleyworks.co.uk

Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own items.

British 1:87 Scale Modelling

	Some manufacturers and suppliers of items useful to modellers of British 1:87 scale

	Please also see Buying second-hand British H0 in the UK.

	This list cannot be definitive. Many of the entries on this page are retained only to maintain the links on other pages. 3D-printing is now much used in British H0 modelling. See the discussions about this on the Society's Groups.io site, and search Shapeways and i.materialize for examples and inspirations.

	In the phone numbers given below, a zero in brackets (0) should be dialed only when you are in the same country as the supplier you are phoning.

	Alan Gibson (Workshop) PO Box 597 Oldham Lancs OL1 9FQ England tel: [+44] (0)161 678 1607 sales@alangibsonworkshop.co.uk www.alangibsonworkshop.co.uk	Manufacturer and supplier of wheels, wheelsets and related accessories

	Alexander Models	Former manufacturer of kits and parts.

	Allen Doherty Worsley Works Kits 19 Douglas Road Worsley M28 2SR England tel: [+44] (0)161 794 7480 www.worsleyworks.co.uk enquiries@worsleyworks.co.uk	Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own items.

	APOCOPE fabique par S.A.R.L. APOCOPA Le Boisboeuf 44130 Bouvron France tel: [+33] (0)2 40 56 32 10 info@apocopa.fr www.apocopa.fr	Manufacturer and supplier of resin wagon models. Range previously included a four-wheel container flat wagon and a covered flat wagon for GB-continent use.

	Bachmann Industries Europe Ltd Moat Way Barwell Leicestershire LE9 8EY England tel: [+44] (0)1455 841756 fax: [+44] (0)1455 841787 www.bachmann.co.uk	Bachmann is the owner of Liliput and several other well-known brand names. It is also the distributor for several companies that it does not own. The European headquarters in Leicestershire does not supply items direct (except spares). You must order through a retailer.

	Backwoods Miniatures	Former supplier of the Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-4-0T crane tank steam loco, and models in other scales.

	Mousa Models (formerly Bill Bedford Models) www.mousa-models.co.uk	Etched brass coach, wagon and loco kits and components, previously in all scales including H0.

	Branchlines PO Box 4293 Westbury BA13 9AA England tel/fax: [+44] (0)1373 822231 Mon.-Thurs. 9.30-13.00, 14.00-18.00 sales@branchlines.com	Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own and other manufacturers' items. Representive for SEM (Steam Era Models) of Australia.

	Cambridge Custom Transfers 206 Nuns Way North Arbury Cambridge CB4 2NS England cctrans@hotmail.com www.cctrans.org.uk	Manufacturers of a vast and growing range of decals, mainly for the BR steam era. All now available in 1:87 scale.

	Christo Georgadidis (Balkan Models)	Christo commissioned a run of HO WD 2-10-0 (LNER 07) steam locomotive kits from DJH.

	Continental Model Supply Company (CMSC)	Produced a range of 1:87 scale military vehicles.

	Conrad tel: [+49] (0)9604 4088 80 www.conrad.com international.sales@conrad.de	Before the model was reissued by Bachmann, Conrad supplied the Plasser & Theurer 07-32 Mainliner tamper/liner track maintenance vehicle in kit form. Conrad also supply many other railway modelling items.

	DJH - MODEL LOCO DJH Engineering Ltd, Project House, Consett Business Park, Villa Real, Consett, Co. Durham, DH8 6BP England tel: [+44] (0)1207 500050 fax: [+44] (0)1207 599757 sales@djhengineering.co.uk www.djhmodelloco.co.uk	Manufacturer and supplier of high quality locomotive kits and ready-to-run models.

	Eisenbahn-Treffpunkt Schweickhardt GmbH (ETS) Rathausstraße 94 71334 Waiblingen-Beinstein Germany tel: [+49] (0)7151 93 79 31 fax: [+49] (0)7151 3 40 76 ets@modelleisenbahn.com www.modelleisenbahn.com	Major supplier of many manufacturers' railway and road vehicle models (mainly continental manufacturers). Vast online database of items on their web site, both current and "obsolete". Keen prices and low shipping costs for medium-to-large-sized orders.

	Elaine's Trains Phone [+44] (0)1673 857 423 elaine@elaines-trains.co.uk	Web page especially for British H0 items

	Fidelis Models PO Box 1021 Poway CA 92074 USA tel/fax: [+1] 858 679-9001 www.fidelismodels.com fidelismodels@cox.net	Manufacturer of military vehicles. Supplier of own and other manufacturers' items.

	Firedrake Productions	Firedrake Productions was a producer of British 1:87 scale items.

	Gaugemaster Gaugemaster House Ford Road Arundel West Sussex BN18 0BN England tel: [+44] (0)1903 884488 fax: [+44] (0)1903 884377 sales@gaugemaster.co.uk www.gaugemaster.co.uk	Importer and retailer of many brands of railway model product.

	Gieffeci Italy	Was the distributor of FS (Italian) railway models commissioned from Roco, including the FS Habfis ferry/chunnel wagons.

	Gerard Huet France	Original manufacturer and supplier of the ex-WD brake van and the OCEM29 ferry van. See AMF 87 for continued availability.

	Hatton's	Supplier of vast quantities of train models and model railway stuff from 1946 to 2024

	Ian Lindsay Models PO Box 124 Pendle Hill NSW 2145 Australia tel: [+61] (0)2 6746 2741 ianlind@smartchat.net.au www.ianlindsaymodels.com	Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own items.

	Imex Model Co. Inc.	Once produced 1:87 scale fully finished die-cast models of the Chieftain and Centurion Mk III tanks.

	Jocadis	Former commissioner and supplier of the HO version of the WD 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 (LNER 07) by DJH. Former commissioner of the CM-Laser ferrywagon (Belgian type Hf) in epoche III guise, marked 'Societe Anglo Belgique de Ferry Boat'.

	Kleinspoor Hendrik de Keijserstraat 3 5041 JA Tilburg Netherlands tel: [+31] (0)13 5420375 fax [+31] (0)13 5421924 info@kleinspoor.nl www.kleinspoor.nl	Manufacturer and supplier of locomotive kits.

	Kristall Productions	Publishing company of the former Model Trains International and Scale Model Trains magazines, edited by Chris Ellis.

	Lineside Models	Produced 9ft and 10ft BR wagon underframes in 2010.

	Laser (CM-Laser) Made by Costruzioni Modellistiche S.r.l. Italy	Former manufacturer of wagons, including a range for international traffic between continental Europe and Britain.

	Lledo	Former manufacturer of die-cast model road vehicles, some of which were 1:87 scale or close. Lledo was bought by Corgi, which was in turn bought by Hornby.

	LS Models Rue Bosfagne 31 B4950 Sourbrodt Belgium www.lsmodels.com info@lsmodels.com	Commissioners of special edition train models, including wagons for Belgium-Britain ferry traffic.

	Marno Ltd www.marnoltd.co.uk	Supplied many Roco shunters!

	Mercian Models	Former manufacturer of kits and parts.

	Model Masters The Barn Church Farm Binsted Arundel BN18 0LN tel: [+44] (0)1243 552770 www.modelmasters.co.uk	Operated for many years from Weston-super-mare, now owned and operated by Scalology Ltd of Arundel. Supplier of many continental manufacturers' railway and related products.

	Model Junction (of Slough)	Former Walthers and Horizon Hobbies (Athearn) stockist.

	Modellbahn-Center Hünerbein Markt 11-15, 52062 Aachen, Germany tel: [+49] (0)2 41 33921 fax: [+49] (0)2 41 28013 mchuenerbein@t-online.de website	Supplier of Roco six-wheel diesel shunters and virtually every continental model in production. Also holds a vast stock of spare parts for all makes.

	Patrick Delandre (D.P.M.R SARL)	Supplied APOCOPE and items from other continental manufacturers. Traded at Eurotrack (Southampton/Eastleigh).

	Pb Messing Modelbouw Hogenaardseweg 7 B 2520 Ranst tel/fax: + 32 (0) 3 - 353.24.10 info@pb-messingmodelbouw.com www.pb-messingmodelbouw.com	Manufacturer and supplier of own range of brass models.

	PM Modellbau Ginnheimer Landstrasse 191-195 60431 Frankfurt am Main Germany tel: [+49] (0)69 51 22 63 fax: [+49] (0)69 51 66 52 info@pmmodellbau.de www.pmmodellbau.de	Manufacturer and supplier of resin road vehicle kits.

	Precision Scale Models (John Sargent)	Commissioner and supplier of the Gresley A3 locomotive, made in brass by Samhongsa.

	Railscale PO Box 111 Blaxland NSW 2774 Australia	Manufacturer and supplier of own brass rolling stock kits.

	Railway Modeller, Continental Modeller Peco Technical Advice Bureau Beer, Seaton, Devon EX12 3NA England tel: [+44] (0)1297 20580 fax: [+44] (0)1297 20229 www.pecopublications.co.uk	Publishers of railway modelling magazines.

	sb-modellbau Ilzweg 4 D-82140 Olching Germany tel: [+49] (0)8142 12776 fax: [+49] (0)8142 41171 www.sb-modellbau.com info@sb-modellbau.com	Manufacturer and supplier of Faulhaber motorising kits, including for the Liliput Plasser & Theurer track machine and for the Roco Unimog.

	Scale Link Ltd Iwerne Minster Dorset DT11 8QN tel/fax: [+44] (0)1747 811817 info@scalelink.co.uk www.scalelink.co.uk	Supplier of etched products and white metal kits.

	Sharman Wheels	Former manufacturer and supplier of scale metric wheels. Consult South Eastern Finecast about continued availability of this range or about suitable replacements.

	Steam Era Models (SEM) C/- P.O. Rhyll Victoria 3923 Australia web site tel/fax: +61 3 5956 9389 sem@waterfront.net.au	Manufacturer of powered bogies and wheelsets. Full range of RP25-88 wheels, bogies and power bogies. Represented in UK by Branchlines

	T-L Decals Drieschweg 40 53604 Bad Honnef Germany tel.: [+49] (0)2224-981999 kontakt@tl-modellbau.de www.tl-modellbau.de	Supplies a vast range of train and vehicle decals.

	Walthers www.walthers.com	Mega distributor of HO products in the USA. Check their web site for availability and outlets, including GB ones.

	Weico Models	Manufactured and supplied model road vehicles.

	Winco	Former supplier of continental model railway products.

	Worsley Works (Allen Doherty) 19 Douglas Road Worsley M28 2SR England tel: [+44] (0)161 794 7480 www.worsleyworks.co.uk enquiries@worsleyworks.co.uk	Manufacturer of kits and parts. Supplier of own items.

	British 1:87 Scale Modelling