Was it a pull handle and steel cable on small Sulzers? I've always associatd that with EE designs. Isn't it a push button, electrically firing the CO2 bottles, as on a large Sulzer (Class 47)? If so, discharging the bottles on the distant loco becomes a trivial modification.
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It was normal practice to have the 47/7 leading out of QS, but not unknown to occasionally see trains the other way round. The reason I heard for the normal practice was that there had been cases of buffer-lock and severed buffer heads when 47s pushed the trains out of QS, though I've no idea if this was true or not.
hi there
yes the class 47 was always at the edinburgh end (something to do with better control of the train up the steep incline from Queen Street) the trains were generally 5 Mark 3a coaches and a Mark 2 DBSO the Mark 3a next to the DBSO was always the composite coach with a section of fist class.
there were also a couple of sets made up with Mark 2 stock mixed between older Mark 2a's and also air con Mark 2d/e coaches
hope this information is helpful to you
Bry Shaw
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