00 Gauge English Electric Type 3 modifications.

I have had several English Electric Type 3's later Class 37 over the years. Not until now have I managed to aquire an early all green example.

D6722 is a Lima product and, after servicing, runs rather well.

OK so its out of era for St Mewan but hey it's lockdown and it's my railway etc.

Firstly the buffers had to be swapped from the oval ones fitted to some nice shiny round turned brass one's because thats what D6722 was outshopped with at the Vulcan Foundry.

Next the couplings were cut off flush to the bogie frames and some .5mm nickel silver wire was fitted into holes drilled in the loco's chassis. The buffer beam was painted black as per the prototype. Coupling height was checked with a Sprat and Winkle fitted brake van and adjusted accordingly.

A trawl through the 'net provided some headcodes appropriate to the St Austell area on clay train workings. Once these have been applied then basically that's all i'm going to do to this one.