Heljan

Heljan A/S
Company type	Aktieselskab
Industry	Model railways
Founded	1957; 67 years ago
Headquarters	Søndersø, Denmark
Key people	Niels Christian Nannestad, Founder; Jan Nannestad, Managing director
Products	HO, 00 and O gauge Locomotives, Rolling Stock, Buildings and Accessories
Website	www.heljan.dk

Heljan A/S is a Danish

manufactured

in China.

Range

Heljan's current UK

Railbuses

were released in February 2012. They also produce OO gauge British Rail Dogfish ballast wagons and Cargowaggon bogie freight vehicles.

Their UK

British Railways Mark 1

carriages in a number of liveries. O gauge models are typically supplied un-numbered and with separate detailing parts, allowing the purchaser to finish the model to their own preference.

In the UK, a number of

Woodhead Route are currently being produced for Olivia's Trains of Sheffield (terminus of the Woodhead line). A Midland Pullman

is also planned. Several standard Heljan models have been produced in special, limited edition, liveries for particular retailers or UK railway modelling magazines.

Traditionally, Heljan has produced many Continental prototypes with

H0 models such as the Swedish State Railways Class T21 and Danish State Railways class MY, MX, MO and P 4-4-2

.

Highly acclaimed, working

street lighting

.

In June 2022 Heljan announced plans to introduce a British Rail class 31 locomotive in TT:120 scale, with the possible production of a class 08 and a Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST locomotive.^[2] Previous commercial ready-to-run British outline rolling stock had, in the 1950s and 1960s, always been made to a scale of 1:100. The introduction of TT:120 scale rolling stock was coincidental with plans announced by PECO and Gaugemaster to produce products in what is a new scale for British outline models.

Future plans

Planned models in OO gauge are a British Rail DP2 and several versions of the Class 128 parcels DMU.

In O Gauge a GWR AEC 'Razor Edge' Railcar, British Rail Class 31, Class 40, Class 56 and a Class 17 Clayton are all planned but production is dependent on enough customers placing advanced orders for them. It is hoped that these will mirror the huge success of the "Deltic" when it was released in 2011. Heljan recently admitted that they had been considering the possibilities of producing a Class 14 "Teddy Bear" in O gauge but this was not thought to be viable due to lack of customer interest.

Gallery

British Rail Class 27
British Rail Class 33
British Rail Class 53 Falcon
D0260 LION

References

^ "Historien om Heljan" (PDF) (in Danish). Heljan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
^ Jones, Ben (14 June 2022). "No Compromises – British outline 1:120 TT is here!". Heljanuk. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

External links

Heljan (Denmark) www.heljan.dk
List of UK suppliers (Accessed 2016-08-27)

55°28′35″N 10°15′53″E / 55.47639°N 10.26472°E / 55.47639; 10.26472

[1] "Historien om Heljan" (PDF) (in Danish). Heljan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-02-03.

[2] Jones, Ben (14 June 2022). "No Compromises – British outline 1:120 TT is here!". Heljanuk. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

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