forest2807 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Does anyone have any photographic evidence of whether any early series (Romanian or first few British built) Class 56's retained their round buffers after the bufferbeam cowling was removed? I've trawled several sites but found nothing. It seems that all had oval buffers fitted when the cowling was removed but I was hoping there might be an exception. I know the later examples carried oval buffers from new, and I am aware of 56042's test bed status (cowling cut away, round buffers and Class 58 bogies) so don't want to model that one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Full Cl.47 style cowling was omitted from 56033 onwards as built. The only loco off the top of my head that fits your remit is 56003, in preservation. Hornby strangely chose this short lived, location specific example as suitable for market. I'll trawl my Grid pic library, but as you say, round buffers were not in favour for long apparently. C6T. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJC Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Does anyone have any photographic evidence of whether any early series (Romanian or first few British built) Class 56's retained their round buffers after the bufferbeam cowling was removed? I've trawled several sites but found nothing. It seems that all had oval buffers fitted when the cowling was removed but I was hoping there might be an exception. I know the later examples carried oval buffers from new, and I am aware of 56042's test bed status (cowling cut away, round buffers and Class 58 bogies) so don't want to model that one! I have attached a picture, don't know if it's what you are after since I'm nor sure about the cowling etc. Any problems opening it send me your e-mail address. I was thinking of something similiar therefore let me know the outcome, also, where would you get the correct round buffers from ? Cheers LJC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Clarke Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 56 312 was originally 56 003 and I've seen a photo that seems to be what you're asking for....or were asking for eight years ago ....now all I have to do is work out how to upload the pic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Clarke Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Of course I should have said credit to the original poster of the picture, I just found it by searching around Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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