Barrington

I have been a long time lurker on rmweb, and this thread is probably one of my favourites with some excellent photos from Jim. Thanks for taking the time to give us an excellent insight into the work of a Colas driver. In fact, it is this thread that persuaded me to start collecting Colas liveried stock with a view to a Colas themed layout at some stage in the future. It looks like it will be an expensive year with the Hornby 60, Bachmann 70 and the Bachmann 37 and 47 all due in Colas livery. I will be broke but happy lol. Once again, thanks for all the pics and info Jim. It really is appreciated by a lot on here.

Nice one. Thanks for the info.

Excellent to see Bachmann releasing this in model form. Another model now added to the pre-order shopping list.

Seen on another forum that Colas have recently added West Burton, Eggborough Power Station, Drax Power Station and Redcar Mineral Terminal to their locations list on TOPS. Have Colas won some new traffic flows recently?

The Colas 47 on offer from Bachmann is 47727, as far as I can tell. It would be ok to use for renumbering as 47739, but you will need to change the buffers (to Class 60 type) and possibly add some pipework on bufferbeam area from looking at photos. 47749 has different cab ends to the other two, in that it has different type lights, so would not be an accurate renumbering. If anyone can list any other differences, I would also be interested in hearing them, as I have pre-ordered two of the 47727 Colas models.