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5 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I did, but chose the 6th type in the Fowler/Stanier/Fairburn/Riddles class 4 2-6-4Ts, the LMS/NCC class WT. 

 

Now if the LMS had made 2-6-0 versions of the class 4 tanks then wouldn't have they been great, just like the W class 2-6-0s were.  

 

Stanier did, and Riddles was his protege was he not?  A great 5P/4F 2-6-0 from 1933..Or was it 4P/5F? I think in BR days it was 5MT.

 

 

Apologies for straying from the true path of 2-6-4T deliberations.

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4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Most of them but not all.

 

11 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

ISTR the standard tanks were built at Brighton.....

 

10 were built at Doncaster, 15 at Derby and the remaining 130 at Brighton.

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1 hour ago, RFS said:

 

 

10 were built at Doncaster, 15 at Derby and the remaining 130 at Brighton.

Thanks Robert, I didn't get round to checking the exact numbers!

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Very conclusive. 12 votes for BR standard 4, far more than we've had for anything else, and no more than a couple for the works of Fowler Stanier Thompson and others.

 

The last poll of this sort has to be, I think, 0.8.0s. Other wheel arrangements don't seem to have the number of classes to make them viable. So, Q in LNER classification.

 

Do we leave it there?  This does seem to have generated plenty of interest and amusement, not just in votes, but in the number of views there have been. This thread has become my opportunity to give something back to others in these strange and troubling times, and while you enjoy what I can give, I want to keep it going in this way. Jonathan has suggested a poll on carriages, but I don't know as much about them as I do about locomotives. Can I have some help on how we could frame that please?  Any other ideas are very welcome too. I'm happy to head things up as I have been doing, if I know what to do! What about railway architecture by the way? Would that be of sufficient interest?

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3 minutes ago, great northern said:

Very conclusive. 12 votes for BR standard 4, far more than we've had for anything else, and no more than a couple for the works of Fowler Stanier Thompson and others.

 

The last poll of this sort has to be, I think, 0.8.0s. Other wheel arrangements don't seem to have the number of classes to make them viable. So, Q in LNER classification.

 

Do we leave it there?  This does seem to have generated plenty of interest and amusement, not just in votes, but in the number of views there have been. This thread has become my opportunity to give something back to others in these strange and troubling times, and while you enjoy what I can give, I want to keep it going in this way. Jonathan has suggested a poll on carriages, but I don't know as much about them as I do about locomotives. Can I have some help on how we could frame that please?  Any other ideas are very welcome too. I'm happy to head things up as I have been doing, if I know what to do! What about railway architecture by the way? Would that be of sufficient interest?

How about the best looking pre 1975 overhead EMU?

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G'Day Folks

 

I'm going to pick a loco that disappeared in the mid 30's, 20+years before Gilberts masterpiece, A Q1/Q2.

 

manna

 

PS. Since I took this pic, I've fitted a new chimney and boiler bands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Q6 for me as well Gilbert.

 

Re future polls, compared to many folk I don’t have a great knowledge of either carriages or architecture but I would certainly be interested.


Bridges might be a category?

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For looks, it has to be the Fowler "Austin" 7F, although the less said about its reliability the better.

 

If it's reliability with a certain amount of Edwardian elegance, then it has to be the LNWR G2 and variants.

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1 hour ago, great northern said:

This thread has become my opportunity to give something back to others 

Ha bl@@dy ha! What on earth do you think brings us here the rest of the year? You give and give and give with your pics and views all year long - thankYOU!

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13 minutes ago, great northern said:

I might need your assistance for that one Clive.

Eyes down look in

 

L&YR Holcombe Brook units

LB&SCR South London line

LB&SCR Crystal Palace stock

MR Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham stock

MSJ&AR LMS designed trains

LNER design Manchester-Glossop (class 506)

LNER design Liverpool St- Shenfield (class AM6/306)

BR Eastliegh Liverpool St-Southend (class AM7/307)

BR Doncaster, Fenchurch St-Shoeburyness (class AM2/302)

BR York Liverpool St- Chingford (classes AM5&8/305&308) 3 car

BR York Liverpool St- GER outer suburban (classes AM5&8/305&308) 4 car...they do look different

BR Wolverton Liverpool, Manchester and Crewe (class AM4/304)

BR/Cravens Glasgow blue trains (classes AM3&11/303 &311)

BR Euston suburban (class AM10/310)

Class 312

BR York, Liverpool St, Clacton and Walton (class AM9/309)

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My 0-8-0 tender loco choice is the LNER (exNER) Q6.

 

But if we are also allowed 0-8-0T locos - my vote has to go to the Kent and East Sussex Railway's - later SR and BR(S) - "Hecate" a very well balanced and elegant loco - supplied by R. W. Hawthorne Leslie and Co.  in 1904.

 

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57 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Eyes down look in

 

L&YR Holcombe Brook units

LB&SCR South London line

LB&SCR Crystal Palace stock

MR Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham stock

MSJ&AR LMS designed trains

LNER design Manchester-Glossop (class 506)

LNER design Liverpool St- Shenfield (class AM6/306)

BR Eastliegh Liverpool St-Southend (class AM7/307)

BR Doncaster, Fenchurch St-Shoeburyness (class AM2/302)

BR York Liverpool St- Chingford (classes AM5&8/305&308) 3 car

BR York Liverpool St- GER outer suburban (classes AM5&8/305&308) 4 car...they do look different

BR Wolverton Liverpool, Manchester and Crewe (class AM4/304)

BR/Cravens Glasgow blue trains (classes AM3&11/303 &311)

BR Euston suburban (class AM10/310)

Class 312

BR York, Liverpool St, Clacton and Walton (class AM9/309)

I'd have to pick the Clacton units.

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1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Eyes down look in

 

L&YR Holcombe Brook units

LB&SCR South London line

LB&SCR Crystal Palace stock

MR Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham stock

MSJ&AR LMS designed trains

LNER design Manchester-Glossop (class 506)

LNER design Liverpool St- Shenfield (class AM6/306)

BR Eastliegh Liverpool St-Southend (class AM7/307)

BR Doncaster, Fenchurch St-Shoeburyness (class AM2/302)

BR York Liverpool St- Chingford (classes AM5&8/305&308) 3 car

BR York Liverpool St- GER outer suburban (classes AM5&8/305&308) 4 car...they do look different

BR Wolverton Liverpool, Manchester and Crewe (class AM4/304)

BR/Cravens Glasgow blue trains (classes AM3&11/303 &311)

BR Euston suburban (class AM10/310)

Class 312

BR York, Liverpool St, Clacton and Walton (class AM9/309)

Whoops, I forgot to add my favorites

 

LNWR Siemens units converted to overhead for the  Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham line.

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1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

I'd have to pick the Clacton units.

Ditto. They had a great deal of style with the wraparound cab windows, and ran a mainline service like few others in Clive's list. The AM10s, by comparison, always seemed a bit outer-suburban.

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