There’s nothing quite like the excitement of unboxing brand-new additions to the layout, and this week we’re thrilled to announce a fantastic range of Hornby OO Gauge models now in stock at Rails of Sheffield. 

Whether you’re a seasoned collector, a layout builder, or just starting your railway journey, these latest arrivals offer something for everyone—from iconic locomotives and detailed rolling stock to essential accessories that bring your railway to life. With limited availability and plenty of favourites bound to sell fast, now’s the perfect time to add to your collection.

Representing the formative years of steam-powered railways, these three locomotives were built between 1825 and 1838. The first is ‘Locomotion No. 1’, designed by George and Robert Stephenson. It was built at their factory in Newcastle for the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, where it became the first to pull a passenger train on a public railway/ This year, 2025, marks the 200th anniversary.

With the experience they gained, Robert Stephenson & Co. entered a design for the 1829 Rainhill Trials, held to find suitable motive power for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Their entry, ‘Rocket’, was the clear winner and formed the basis for locomotive design on the L&MR, which opened the following year.

By 1938, locomotive design had already moved on, and 0-4-2 No. 57 ‘Lion’, was one of a pair of ‘luggage’ locomotives built to a Stephenson patent by Todd, Kitson & Laird of Leeds, also for the L&MR.

A colourful symbol of inclusivity, this attractive Class 755/4 'FLIRT' train pack features an iconic Pride livery, as seen on the real-life train that runs throughout the Greater Anglia network.

The Class 755 bi-mode multiple unit trains are built by Stadler Rail for Greater Anglia and are part of the highly configurable FLIRT modular train family, designed for greater capacity and long-distance comfort.

The Class 755 entered service on the 29th July 2019, having been delivered to Greater Anglia the previous November. On Wednesday 23rd April 2014, Greater Anglia revealed the new Pride livery Class 755.

Powered with two 5-pole motors, directional lighting, illuminated destination boards, door open lights and cab and footstep lighting, you won't miss this train as it moves around your model railway layout. It also has three 21-pin decoder sockets - a minimum of two decoders are required for DCC sound-running and an optional third decoder can be used to control the HM7000 enhanced bass speaker if fitted.

Known as ‘Black Fives’, or in Scotland as ‘Hikers’, Stanier’s 5MT 4-6-0s were one of the most numerous classes of locomotives built in the UK, with 842 examples built at a variety of locations, including the railway’s own works at Crewe, Derby and Horwich, plus private builders Vulcan Foundry and Armstrong Whitworth, the latter building by far the most with 327 machines. No. 5047 was built at Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows in 1935 with a domeless boiler and spent most of its career in Scotland. It was withdrawn from St. Margaret’s shed, Edinburgh in July 1966 as BR No. 45047.

No. 1257 was built at the GNR's Doncaster Works and entered traffic in December 1901. Under the LNER it was reclassified as a J52 and renumbered to 4257 and, under its 1946 renumbering scheme, the 0-6-0ST became No. 8856. This number was prefixed with '6' under BR in 1948 and the locomotive was withdrawn in October 1951, achieving almost 50 years of service.

This 1:76 scale model is presented in original Great Northern Railway apple green with black and white lining and red-shaded gold lettering and numerals. It also has the earlier-style safety valve cowling.

Featuring a five-pole skew-wound motor, metal sprung buffers and NEM couplings, this DCC-ready model will look delightful chugging around your tracks.

This locomotive started its career in March 1954 at Kirkby Stephen and operated on the Trans-Pennine Stainmore route, where it famously rescued fellow 2MT No. 78018, which was stuck in a snowdrift at Bleath Gill. Retired from Crewe South in November 1966, it was later rescued from Barry scrapyard in 1973 and moved to the Severn Valley Railway, before transfer in 1998 for overhaul by the Loughborough Standard Locomotive Group, who returned it to steam in 2004.

This attractive train pack features the eye-catching COP26 livery, allowing you to show your support for action against climate change while running your model railway layout. The four-car pack includes a power car, a dummy car and two coaches, and the power car is DCC-ready, should you wish to upgrade to HM7000.

First introduced in July 2002 for high-speed electric passenger services, 53 eight-car units were initially built for use on the West Coast Main Line and leased from Angel Trains.

They went to Virgin Trains at first, but in December 2019, they transferred to Avanti West Coast. Four more of the tilting sets were added to the fleet between 2010 and 2012.

From 2012, 31 of the original units were increased to 11-coach sets, including 390121, which was decorated in a special ‘Ride Against Climate Change’ livery for Glasgow Cop26 in 2021.

Fifty-two LMS ‘Patriots’ were built by the LMS, with 42 emerging from Crewe Works and the remaining ten from its Derby Works. They were designed for hauling express passenger trains on the West Coast Main Line and all carried names with a military association. They operated in their original parallel boiler form until rebuilt with tapered boilers under William Stanier between 1946 and 1949.No. 5540 ‘Sir Robert Turnbull’ is in an LMS Crimson Lake livery. It is named after Robert Turnbull who served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps and who also served the LNWR as its General Manager. He was knighted in 1913.

This RailRoad Class 73 diesel has been used for both passenger and freight trains over the years, so it is suited to many model railway layouts. It comes DCC-ready with a 21-pin plug, so you can upgrade it to run on DCC or with our HM7000 Bluetooth-controlled system, which also includes sound via a speaker inside the locomotive.Introduced by BR in 1963, what is now known as the Class 73 is an electro-diesel locomotive, which are also referred to as EDs. As well as operating on the Southern Region’s 650-750v DC third-rail network, these locomotives have a 600hp diesel engine, allowing them to work over non-electrified routes and into sidings and yards where there isn’t a third rail power source. From new, all 49 locomotives were fitted for push-pull working with Southern Region multiple units.

The elegant GWR Collett Corridor Third Class LH 5017 Coach is an essential addition to your era 3 consist. Featuring the irresistible chocolate and cream livery of the GWR, these highly detailed coaches are an excellent replica of the standard coaches from the 1920s.

Charles B. Collett developed a new range of standard coaches from 1922 to coincide with the reintroduction of the chocolate and cream livery onto the company’s network. These covered a wide variety of types, but the most common type introduced between 1925 and 1929 was the ‘bow-ended’ corridor coach, of which several hundred were built at Swindon.

The idea of the ‘bow ends’ was to reduce the length of the corridor connections between carriages following complaints from nervous passengers about walking across them when the train was travelling at speed. They went on to form the backbone of main line sets for 20 years.

Gresley’s standard LNER 61ft 6in coaches were solidly built, and despite being a design inherited from the GNR in 1923 and built until 1942, many of them lasted in service until 1965, working alongside BR Mk1 coaches, which they were compatible with.

The varnished teak finish was vulnerable to extremes of weather and required constant maintenance to stop them from looking tatty with peeled varnish and cracked panels. Because of this, BR painted the wooden panels crimson and cream after nationalisation, with all-over crimson for the full brake vehicles. A total of 38 former LNER teak coaches have been preserved, including some that have been restored to a varnished teak finish.

The tank wagon was the main method of transporting liquid cargo in the early days of the railway. Instead of loading liquids into drums or barrels and then having to load these on and off closed or open vans at each side of a journey, the tank wagon could be filled with the fluid of choice of the operator and then emptied at the other end. This also increased the carrying capacity of each wagon, as a wagon with a 12-tonne weight limit could carry more fluid if it did not have to factor in the weight of many barrels on top of their contents. This type of tank wagon was more commonly seen hauling hazardous liquid chemicals, with different designs for milk and other such cargo.

This version of the ‘JNA’ wagon is finished in the smart blue livery of Freight Operating Company (FOC) GBRf – GB Railfreight. Numbered 70 5500 465-6, it is used for materials such as scrap metal. Wagon-leasing company Wascosa supplied many Romanian-built bogie box wagons on a ten-year Network Rail contract signed in 2019, with deliveries commencing in 2022. The contract was won in partnership with GBRf which has a long-term contract for hauling Network Rail infrastructure trains. The wagons are used for carrying infrastructure materials such as ballast and other aggregates and are also suitable for carrying scrap metal and other materials. The wagons were built at the AstraRail plant in Arad, Romania and were delivered to the UK via the Channel Tunnel.

The hopper wagon is decorated in the style of Railfreight’s coal sector. The hopper body is made of unpainted metal and has a black underframe, which was standard across the eras, and it has the yellow framework that BR Railfreight introduced in 1987. The wagon is numbered 358764.

When originally designed in 1964, some hopper wagons intended for Merry-go-Round (MGR) trains were given an extension to their tops, known as a canopy or top skirt, which allowed their carrying capacity to be increased to 32 tonnes, using the full 45 tonnes gross laden weight allowed for a two-axle wagon. There were three basic types ‘HBA’, ‘HCA’ and ‘HFA’. However, those hoppers fitted with canopies were too high to be used under the majority of colliery screens and they were confined mainly to Scotland until the canopies were eventually removed.