2009/10 Programme – 

 

E/8 Stanier 2-6-4 Tank this edition is now sold out although several of our dealers may have stock examples over the coming months. 

E/9 SR/BR Bulleid ‘West Country’ and ‘Battle of Britain' Class Pacifics. . 

C/15 40cm Pullmans. 

C/16E 40cm Brighton Belle Set (Composition to be announced). 

C/17E CEP 40cm SR Set comprising Motorised Car and Dummy units. 

C/18 40cm Stanier LMS Stanier pre war series coaches. 

Carette style reproduction Water Tower. 

G/2 Van series 

 

ACE announce their Schools Class Loco in most versions it appeared in SR & BR days. The mechanical specification will be new. The Loco will have the ACE designation E/10 and due to demand will be rescheduled. Please register your interest without obligation as soon as possible. Price and delivery will be announced shortly.

 

Click here to view details of Schools class Locomotive types

 

Further announcements will be made in the Autumn concerning coach stock and the Pullman range. 

 

We have now finalised our initial plans for 2010 

We will introduce an LMS/BR Duchess Class locomotive E/11, in both Streamlined and non Streamlined Versions in all liveries. 

The blue version of the Coronation Coach Set will follow the locomotive. 

E/5 Ex LMS 4F in several liveries. (Rescheduled)

Watch this page for further news.

New feature -

ACE Aound The World

click here to see ACE in foreign parts

Len Mills and Allen Levy inspect a first mock up of the all metal tinprinted Brighton Belle 40cm at the TCS show at Sandy on June 11 2009. The chassis shown is a standard C/13 version when production is placed, a new chassis, mech and bogie units will be fitted. Our previous EMU mech cannot be accessed at the moment due to complications with our previous factory.

ACE Fowler E/5 and the Battle of Britain E/9 pause after a long days running the TCS 2-day meeting at Sandy on June 11th 2009. As announced the E/5 programme has been rescheduled until 2010 to enable the E/10 Schools to be brought forward. Price and schedule to be announced shortly.

Two new pictures of ACE outdoor layout at Ladbroke Grove

New high roof

Original C/1 low roof

Ace Trains G/2 Van Series

Special Introductory Offer

Special introductory offer with purchcase of three different sets will be the inclusion of one ACE Brake Van in the purchase. A saving of £47.50.

This offer will only apply to the first 200 sets.

Normal retail price of each set of three Vans £99 (inc VAT) postage extra.

Litho tinplate with fully sprung diecast and sheet steel chassis. All Vans have sprung wheels and standard ACE drop link couplings which can be interchanged.

Available now.

The images are slightly distorted but will appear in forthcoming advertisements and ACE literature without the unintentional weathered look.

To all ACE C/1 35cm coach owners.

No need to duplicate your existing C/1 sets.

ACE trains will be issuing a C/1 modification roof set (C/1RK) to update the appearance of your existing BR, LNER, LMS, GWR, SR, LBSCR, MET, CR and LNWR coach sets.

✭The converted coaches will fit in your existing C/1 boxes.

✭Restoring your coaches to their original low roof line is a simple operation if required.

The sets will include three higher profile roofs in standard grey, six tin printed tabbed ends (one printed as a brake end) two chopsticks for tab turning as in the C/3 kits. A cast dynamo is

included which can be bolted on the chassis via an existing punching after removing the original roof.

Short instructions.

The sets will have the ACE designation C/1RK but be known as the ‘Ashford Mod’ after Adrian Ashford who suggested the idea exclusively to ACE Trains.

Price £29.95 inc VAT plus postage for a kit enabling a full three car set to be converted.

ACE Trains having been unsuccessful in obtaining the release of the balance of our first series Castles. We will now issue as a new version of the series two loco with the square inside front cylinder cover. The new ACE version will have competely new mechanics. It will be available in 2 and 3 rail with a greatly improved finish not employing hand applied transfers. Further details from any of the ACE trains communication channels, phone, e-mail or mail. If you are offered any of our former prepaid series one production please bear in mind that these are no longer ACE approved products and are subject to current litigation. No ACE warranties will be attached to any of these examples should they be offered via E Bay or other retail outlets.

Important news about the Castle Locomotives

Series 1 version Photo N Groombridge

ACE 15 years on

2010 will be the 15th Anniversary of ACE Trains.

Allen Levy thinks all associated with ACE deserve to crown their big loco range with something special that also completes a personal trilogy of Kings Cross memories A1, 3 and 4. Len tells me that he also haunted platform 10 as a young man. A case of trains that passed in the night.

As a young man Allen spent hours in all weathers at the head of platform 10 the last main line platform before the suburban platforms and all those panting N2s “I know we have done the Eastern Region proud but I saw more A1s slipping to get up the gradient out of Kings Cross than I care to remember. Accordingly I will indulge ACE and inaugurate our E/12 project, which of course will include 'Tornado' a locomotive whose name was put forward by me some 15 years ago (see page 119 of 'Brilliantly Old Fashioned' and ACE Trains Catalogue No 1 1998)". This project will proceed chronologically namely after the E/11Duchess series..

Other names and liveries in the original class will be issued.

New Cavendish Books donated this fund raising brochure for the A1 project. Initially the locomotive was to be named New Cavendish in return for a substantial donation to the eventual Trust. However, pending certain legal formalities it became apparent that the project would need considerably more funding than originally thought. To this end I suggested that the name be a more universal one in terms of further fund raising. Despite other long scrapped locos having borne this name I suggested Tornado with its association with The RAF would be a more appropriate choice. The then managing committee agreed and although the project was to overrun its completion date and initial budget by a considerable margin the decision was the right one.

Small Edition of BR Green E/8s mainly

for Model Fair. Photo Peter Metcalfe

 

Details of our current dispute and legal position vis a vis A Grabowsky/Vintage Trains regarding name, copyright and tooling

 click here

The E/5 ex Cambrian/GWR 844 Class will be issued shortly after the LMS 4F this year as part of our ongoing E/5 series. We would point out that the ex LNER J/19 issued by our former factory without our initial permission (our later permission since withdrawn on advice from our lawyers) but based on our tooling is not an ACE product. However we will not now return to that project as the model issued was rather disappointing and not up to our standard thus any attempt to reissue it as a genuine ACE product would be counter productive.

We will proceed with further models in the series (which commenced with the Q Class) in 2011/12. (click on pictures for other views)