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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 10:53 #30149 | |
Josie
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I don't have an overall favourite train as such, but when considered with the journey and the normal rolling stock, I think one of my favourites has to be a class 180 on local stopping services out of Manchester Victoria. Sitting in declassified First (2+1 seating) used to make a very nice change from the usual Pacers!
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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 11:21 #30150 | |
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Haraubrad
103 posts |
Can't beat the old G C Pom Pom
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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 12:00 #30151 | |
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BoxBoyKit
166 posts |
1T15, 1730/1802 exWhitby to Pickering. Or 1G24, 0T15, 0P15 or 5P23... =)
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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 14:14 #30159 | |
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WesternChampion
173 posts |
I have a soft spot for the old modernisation plan DMUs, where you could sit behind the driver and watch him at work and the line ahead. As a kid I used to do this on the Swindon - Gloucester line. More recently I got invited into the cab on the Wensleydale Railway. As for watching a train pass, an A4 at speed downgrade at Horton-in-Ribblesdale comes to mind. 1980 I think! Log in to reply The following user said thank you: handle |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 14:18 #30160 | |
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TimTamToe
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For DMU's would have to be the thumpers! The sound of them and nothing better on a cold winter's day to warm you up than sitting on one of them 
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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 14:25 #30163 | |
Temple Meads
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Passenger stock: HST's. Diesel Loco: Class 60 Electric loco: Class 90 Steam loco: A4 Username TIM in multiplayer Log in to reply The following user said thank you: handle |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 14:42 #30169 | |
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birchy74
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My fav's are DMU 158 EMU 317 D Loco 60 E Loco 91 Coaching Stock Mk 1 Log in to reply The following user said thank you: handle |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 17:46 #30191 | |
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sorabain
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For me it's diesel and class 37s, particularly scottish or welsh 37/4s in revised livery for the memories of sticking my head out of the old coach windows going through the highlands and getting a full sensory experience of a diesel in action Since I haven't seen any of the pros mention them i'm a bit worried that maybe they were a real pig to drive/maintain though... Also, dare I say it but I quite like class 66s in the modern era? I live next to a typically passenger line coming out of liverpool street but one weekend when they were doing maintenance I heard my first 66 starting up with sirens and then pulsing away powerfully.. loved it to bits. Log in to reply The following user said thank you: handle |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 18:48 #30198 | |
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AndyG
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" said:I'm going to go really downmarket! I have very fond memories of the old 2BILs on the Brighton-Worthing route in the 50s and 60s. Yes, I know they were decrepit old things, but they got me to and from school and gave me my first independent childhood trips (I think a return from Lancing to Brighton was about 2s 3d - saveable from pocket money). Dinosaur times!My favourites were the 4CORs (aka Nelsons), but only got a few runs on them in the 1960s when at school. Plenty of space and comfortable ride. I can only help one person a day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look too good either. Log in to reply The following user said thank you: handle |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 19:30 #30202 | |
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handle
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" said:Diesel over steam for me but probably more of a generation thing, as for class its got to be class 37,in my opinion you just cant beat the sound they make.how about two 37 together? Log in to reply |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 19:32 #30203 | |
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handle
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" said:The one that gets me home on time..........LOL 
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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 19:35 #30205 | |
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handle
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" said:Can't beat the old G C Pom Pomnice Log in to reply |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 20:17 #30212 | |
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bonnieprince
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Class 170s as they were the first I Signed!
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| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 22:31 #30218 | |
onlydjw
456 posts |
Of the units we have around Lincoln - 156s - most reliable, most comfortable and most robust of the sprinters. Otherwise - 37s and 56s is what I grew up with. Not keen on 2 stroke things (66s and 67s) - rev their guts out and vibrate themselves to pieces! God bless, Daniel Wilson Log in to reply The following user said thank you: handle |
| Re: What is your favourite train 28/02/2012 at 23:05 #30221 | |
CTCThiago
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Class 153, 155, 323, 421, 455.
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| Re: What is your favourite train 29/02/2012 at 10:54 #30226 | |
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kbarber
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" said:" said:Diesel over steam for me but probably more of a generation thing, as for class its got to be class 37,in my opinion you just cant beat the sound they make.how about two 37 together? ...slogging up from Kensal Green to Finchley Road & Froganl, with over 1000 tons of freightliner tied on the back, controller wide open and just about managing 20mph as they get over the top... now there's an alarm call for most of North London
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| Re: What is your favourite train 29/02/2012 at 11:17 #30227 | |
Guts
604 posts |
Class 91
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 15:22 #43355 | |
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jwsetford
164 posts |
class 170, 171, 172, 220, 221, 222,43
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 15:40 #43359 | |
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Rickurd
128 posts |
Class 170, 172, 220, 221, 222 and the old faithful HST
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:09 #43362 | |
jc92
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" said:
I dont trust anything that sounds like a washing machine :P " said: I also dont trust anything that cant offer a reasonable guarantee of a working toilet and/or a smell free environment. :P and generally anything run by cross country (words cannot describe my dislike at having to use them at least once per month for two hours!) "We don't stop camborne wednesdays" Log in to reply The following user said thank you: guidomcc |
| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:23 #43363 | |
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Late Turn
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" said:and generally anything run by cross country (words cannot describe my dislike at having to use them at least once per month for two hours!) I agree wholeheartedly - life would be so much more relaxing if I didn't have to pull off for them every hour ;-) . Log in to reply |
| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:24 #43364 | |
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jwsetford
164 posts |
oi i drive 170's
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:30 #43365 | |
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Late Turn
699 posts |
Are you one of the cheerful chaps who come our way, or one of the miserable-looking ones? 
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| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:31 #43366 | |
58050
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kbarber wrote: Quote: ...slogging up from Kensal Green to Finchley Road & Froganl, with over 1000 tons of freightliner tied on the back, controller wide open and just about managing 20mph as they get over the top... now there's an alarm call for most of North London :laugh: I know all about that when I was a Liverpool Street Regional control. One thing though, never got many complaints about the noise from residents living on the North London Line, especially on the T&H when the diversions were on. The signalman I knew at South Tottenham bank loved it. He would ring me for the wagon numbers on a freightliner heading towards Willesden from Felixstowe with a pair of Cl.37/0s pulling a 25 loaded freightliner set. It would be 0200am in the morning & he'd hang the phone out of the box window & you could hear these engines open up from Tottenham South Jn & they would be on full power all the way through to Gospel Oak & as Kbarber says going past the box at South Tottenham not doing much more than 20mph & you could hear these Cl.37/0s for several miles. There would be about 10 of these trains over the North London line on nights. If you like alot of thrash then thats one of the best. As for the last lot of suggestions, you can tell its a generation thing as I don't rate any of those at all. Total rubbish in my view. Bring back loco hauled stock anyday for me & I'd settle for any 1st geberation diesel pulling it although Cl.45 or Cl.46 would be best Log in to reply |
| What is your favourite train 12/04/2013 at 16:32 #43368 | |
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jwsetford
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depends where 'our way' is. if its in a field im one of them miserable looking guys. but if im on the rails then im a jolly looking guy.
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