RMweb Premium rab Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2014 Was at the South Devon Railway this afternoon and while waiting for the loco (pannier L92) to run round I happened to look at the buffers on the coach and noticed (shock horror) the buffer shanks were rectangular not round. This is obviously not a one off but how common were\are rectangular shanks Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Some pre-nationalisation stock had oblong buffer shanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Both Maunsell and Bulleid LHCS used rectangular shanked, retractable buffers, in conjunction with buckeye couplers. Maunsell / Bulleid LHCS - Extended, with Collar in place Maunsell / Bulleid LHCS - Retracted, with Collar removed A non retractable type was fitted to the outer ends of the 2-NOL and early batches of the 2-BIL Emus The 2-BIL's shown here, on the right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 If you look carefully, you will see that Pacers/Skippers all have hexagonal wheel sets, hence the ride. But not many people know that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
avonside1563 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I would presume that rectangular buffer shanks were intended to prevent the buffer heads from rotating. The GW also went for square shanks on a lot of their stock Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 If you look carefully, you will see that Pacers/Skippers all have hexagonal wheel sets, hence the ride. But not many people know that! Allways thought they were square! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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