LEGO Trains 2026

[Vilhelm22]

Well, it's that time of year again and with the new 60508 Police Train Heist just leaked, I suppose it's time to start this thread.  Here's the usual list of recent years' sets - 2019-2021 have been removed as all sets from these years have now been retired.

Standard Train Sets

2026

• 60506 Beachside Tram
• 60508 Police Train Heist
• 60509?
• 60511 Retro Steam Train 

2025

• 10361 Holiday Express Train
• 60470 Arctic Explorer Express Train
• 60469 Central Train Station

2024

• 60423 Tram & Station

2023

• 21344 Orient Express 
• 76423 Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station

2022

• 60335 Train Station
• 60336 Freight Train
• 60337 High Speed Passenger Train
• 76405 Hogwarts Express Collector's Edition
• 10308 Holiday Main Street (trolley/tram)

 2018

• 75955 Hogwarts Express
• 60197 Passenger Train
• 60198 Cargo Train
• 60205 Tracks
• 60238 Switch Tracks

Sets with a strikethrough have been retired.or are retiring in December 2025

Sets in italics are ones expected to be retired in 2026.

Let me know if I've missed any from 2025!

 

Bricklink Designer Program Train Sets

At least one train set is confirmed in the Bricklink Designer Program, but that has its own thread elsewhere in the Train Tech.

Discuss below, and as usual @JopieK maybe pin the thread?

Edited 17 hours ago by Vilhelm22

[Vilhelm22]

With the retirement of the latest Hogwarts Express set, leaving only the small one in the book nook, based on previous years I'm also expecting another Hogwarts Express to be released in 2026 (the 2018 set retired in December 2022, and the next one (just retired) launched in June 2023).

[Murdoch17]

I agree this thread should be pinned, and the other, 2025 thread unpinned.

More to the topic, here is a non-box photo from Brickset of the police train. I sincerely hope it has metal axles... although I know it probably won't. Side note: does anyone else think it looks like a EMD SD70ACe or some other variant of SD70? It's lacking the third axle on each bogie, but other than that it's pretty darn close in my opinion. I can't wait to see how people recolor it!

[Concrete]

Just a small note that the Friends set 42671 includes an L-gauge tram! Could it be added to the list of available train sets?

[dr_spock]

Looks like a fun play set.  The locomotive seems a bit like a GP40WH-2 without dynamic brakes and HEP.  I think I would change the loco's front truck to match the rear. 

 

 

[L-Gauger]

Check your local newsstands for the January 2026 issue of Model Railroader! Is this the first time our scale has been mentioned in a traditional hobby publication?

https://www.trains.com/mrr/magazine/archive-access/model-railroader-january-2026/

I hope you all enjoy the article, and if you do, would you consider writing the magazine with your thoughts? I hope that getting this first byline can open some doors and increase the popularity of L gauge trains. 

[zephyr1934]

7 hours ago, L-Gauger said:

Check your local newsstands for the January 2026 issue of Model Railroader! Is this the first time our scale has been mentioned in a traditional hobby publication?

Unfortunately the article is behind a pay wall, but I recall SOMEONE on this forum authoring an online article in Model Railroader in recent history. Is that print article the evolution of the online article?

Meanwhile, NMRA has no idea what to do with Lego trains, many different LTCs and LUGs have put on incredible displays at the NMRA national train show and smaller regional shows, but when asked about making Lego an area, NMRA is a ultimately a trade organization and there are no major vendors in this gauge. Sure, there's Lego but Lego hasn't been interested since 2003. Still, there are a growing number of model railroad groups who dabble in Lego.

[SpacePolice89]

I think that the Police train looks great and it will be easy to use it as a normal freight train as well. My only complaint is that the locomotive looks too studless.

[Selander]

5 minutes ago, SpacePolice89 said:

I think that the Police train looks great and it will be easy to use it as a normal freight train as well. My only complaint is that the locomotive looks too studless.

With Lego, adding more studs is normally really simple 😉

[SpacePolice89]

Just now, Selander said:

With Lego, adding more studs is normally really simple 😉

True. I was more looking at it from a visual and marketing point of view. If it's too studless it doesn't look like a Lego set anymore.

[Vilhelm22]

6 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:

True. I was more looking at it from a visual and marketing point of view. If it's too studless it doesn't look like a Lego set anymore.

To be fair for a lot of people that’s the aim.  When I’m exhibiting at model railway shows with my club (LUKR) one of the most common remarks (in a tone of amazement) is “I didn’t even realise it was LEGO!” to which our answer is always “Thanks!”.  Can see that isn’t everyone’s though.

[Darkkostas25]

Studless design has been a long-requested evolution in the LEGO community. Many new fans see exposed studs as “toylike,” while smooth surfaces feel closer to display models and engineering kits. I enjoy studless building, but creating a truly clean, flowing, polished shape with curves and complex geometry — that’s where real skill shows.

This direction doesn’t betray LEGO’s identity. It expands it. Sleek, studless builds bring in new audiences, challenge experienced AFOLs, and prove that LEGO can be both a creative toy and a refined design medium at the same time.

[faph]

At the same time, this is a City theme set, not a more designer/AFOL-focussed range. With “studless” sets, the play factor goes down. For example, just positioning a minifig becomes a challenge. And to me I always feels it discourages creative modding of Lego designs. 

[L-Gauger]

17 hours ago, zephyr1934 said:

Unfortunately the article is behind a pay wall, but I recall SOMEONE on this forum authoring an online article in Model Railroader in recent history. Is that print article the evolution of the online article?

My apologies for not mentioning the paywall. I included the link thinking that maybe one or two members here might have a trains.com or Model Railroader digital subscription and that including a link would make it more convenient for them. 

Yes, the print article is an edited version of the online one, I just mentioned this because making the print magazine is a tougher cut than making the website. I'm happy the editor liked an article about LEGO Trains enough to put it in print (and yes I know I wrote it, but I would still be pleased if this was someone else's article... I'm happy about anything that might introduce some new people to our great hobby.) 

 

17 hours ago, zephyr1934 said:

Meanwhile, NMRA has no idea what to do with Lego trains, many different LTCs and LUGs have put on incredible displays at the NMRA national train show and smaller regional shows, but when asked about making Lego an area, NMRA is a ultimately a trade organization and there are no major vendors in this gauge. Sure, there's Lego but Lego hasn't been interested since 2003. Still, there are a growing number of model railroad groups who dabble in Lego.

Yeah, this seems like a chicken-and-egg type problem. Conventional train manufacturers aren't even thinking about L Gauge because it's not an NMRA gauge (yes there may be other factors but not being an NMRA standard gauge is perhaps the biggest,) and L Gauge is not an NMRA gauge because basically only LEGO uses it. 

I do hope L Gauge starts to get a bit more press from traditional hobby publications in the future, though, because I think increasing the gauge's popularity, even if only enough to be on par with S scale or thereabouts, might get some traditional hobby manufacturers and the NMRA interested enough to offer something in the scale, even if it's only flex track, wheelsets, and a standards gauge. But then, maybe that's overly hopeful thinking. 

On 12/1/2025 at 9:23 AM, Murdoch17 said:

does anyone else think it looks like a EMD SD70ACe or some other variant of SD70? It's lacking the third axle on each bogie, but other than that it's pretty darn close in my opinion. I can't wait to see how people recolor it!

Using two-axle trucks to model a six-axle prototype isn't without precedent... the Maersk Train is a great example of an SD40-2 model that somehow came out looking more like a GP40-2. Same here, the body appears to be based on the SD70ACe, but the two-axle trucks and short overall length make it look like it's been hybridized with features from a GP40WH-2 or other "Safety cab" Geep. 

You know, I'd really like for Lego to make train wheels that clip into the hole of a train motor, just like the ones on the Gray Era 12V motor. Then, they could also make a 3-axle truck sideframe to match. It would make modeling powered SD units and other modern diesel locomotives in 6-wide so much easier. 

 

Edited December 2, 2025 by L-Gauger

[zephyr1934]

8 hours ago, L-Gauger said:

Yes, the print article is an edited version of the online one, I just mentioned this because making the print magazine is a tougher cut than making the website. I'm happy the editor liked an article about LEGO Trains enough to put it in print (and yes I know I wrote it, but I would still be pleased if this was someone else's article... I'm happy about anything that might introduce some new people to our great hobby.) 

Cool and congratulations, indeed, getting more attention from modelers is a good thing.

[SpacePolice89]

15 hours ago, Darkkostas25 said:

Studless design has been a long-requested evolution in the LEGO community. Many new fans see exposed studs as “toylike,” while smooth surfaces feel closer to display models and engineering kits. I enjoy studless building, but creating a truly clean, flowing, polished shape with curves and complex geometry — that’s where real skill shows.

This direction doesn’t betray LEGO’s identity. It expands it. Sleek, studless builds bring in new audiences, challenge experienced AFOLs, and prove that LEGO can be both a creative toy and a refined design medium at the same time.

I know that many people feel that way but for me it's the complete opposite. For me the studs mean many different ways to build and display and is what makes Lego sets different from other toys and models. For me a studless set looks to much like any other toy or display model and if I want to achieve that look I prefer using Airfix or Revell model kits. 

[Dav1d]

It looks as if this train was designed by the same person who designed 60470 Explorer Train, where they are going for play features rather than reality.

[idlemarvel]

I don't know whether this is allowed on here or not, but I am reverse engineering the loco from the new Police Train Heist in LDD. If this is frowned upon I will delete the post.

I think I have got the externals of the body right, can't be sure about the insides of course although there is a picture of a dummy engine behind the mid-section doors. I'm working on the bogies now. I'm sure you will have already noticed that the light blue grey rear part of the body is mostly the PuP hub! FYI the loco is 36 studs long.

 

 

 

Edited December 4, 2025 by idlemarvel
Updated pictures

[Murdoch17]

Nice job reverse engineering the loco @idlemarvel!

[CCSG]

I like that it’s a North American style locomotive. It seems everyone was thinking Powered Up was going to be retired but apparently not. I was not a fan of the IR control with the Power Functions so appreciate the BT control of Powered Up. I wonder what the next version will entail and how it will be improved. 

[zephyr1934]

On 12/4/2025 at 9:22 AM, idlemarvel said:

I don't know whether this is allowed on here or not, but I am reverse engineering the loco from the new Police Train Heist in LDD. If this is frowned upon I will delete the post.

Oh, no, I think that is one of the functions of this forum is to reverse engineer (and re-engineer) official Lego trains. While you have it up, can you do something about that door in the side of the cab as an alt build? Like maybe put in a nice window or something? (grin).

 

[LL1982]

I think it's nice to re engineer what a lego designer did. Also great to modify a set to make it more your own.

I do think it's smart how they used the hub body as side wall. It gives that look I am used to of an American locomotive in a 6 wide body.

[Izzynufc-2]

 

[Izzynufc-2]

 

[lostdriveway]

Couple of potential rumours this morning from reddit

City

    ⁠60506 Beachside Tram
    ⁠•    ⁠June release
    ⁠•    ⁠Blue tram plus a beach build

•    ⁠60511 Retro Steam Train
    ⁠•    ⁠575 pieces
    ⁠•    ⁠June release
    ⁠•    ⁠Locomotive with tender and one passenger