Looking at period photos on Flickr I'd suggest plough fitted class 47s were in the minority. It could be the spread was related to which depot the loco was allocated - Inverness or Aberdeen based locos may be more likely to carry them for example.

Ploughs were certainly more common amongst other classes - 26 and 27 carried them much more regularly for example; This may be down to them spending more time on the more remote lines.

Sadly the type of music in the Pat Metheny clip did nothing for me. I kept expecting Huggy Bear to appear!! (Antonio Fargas in 'Miami Vice')

"47712 Lady Diana Spencer wasn't fitted with snowploughs so I'd be very surprised if any are included with the model.

I don't believe that Farish has released a Class 47 with snowploughs, but I'd guess they'd be the same as those fitted to some class 37 - i.e. you need to remove the coupling pocket, although with a bit of work you can retain the coupling"


That's interesting to know! I had blanket assumed all Scotrail 47s were fitted with ploughs. My bad! Thanks for the info!

Thank you very much - I shall have a delve! 

Very nice Tim.
Not so sure about the DB collaboration but yes PM is definitely on my radar.

I doubt this Grammy award winning guitarist has featured on this thread before, so here is Pat Metheny with "Here to Stay" from the 1995 album "We Live Here", smooth...


Pat Metheny collaborated with David Bowie and produced "This is not America"...


Tim

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Welcome to the forum, Mich

47712 Lady Diana Spencer wasn't fitted with snowploughs so I'd be very surprised if any are included with the model.

I don't believe that Farish has released a Class 47 with snowploughs, but I'd guess they'd be the same as those fitted to some class 37 - i.e. you need to remove the coupling pocket, although with a bit of work you can retain the coupling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPSjF-u0QM

The newest class 20 due later this year come with snowploughs fitted to the cab end - might be worth checking Farish spares when the model is released to see if they're available separately.

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Well that is now confirmed with this...

It's like uncovering a deposit of gold!