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An elegant British 0-8-0 tender locomotive? I don't think there is one. They would all universally look better as either a 2-6-0 or a 2-8-0.

Tank locos? Maunsell Z class. Honourable mention for the YEC Taurus though...

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Clive Mortimore

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1 hour ago, great northern said:

Hang on chaps. We are still on 0.8.0s tender and tank, for the moment. You can vote on other things later.

I did, all I done was gave a list of overhead EMUs that had seen service before 1975. :dontknow:

 

Anyhow I think I want to change my mind on an 0-8-0 tender loco.

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An elegant British 0-8-0 tender locomotive? I don't think there is one.  Much edited.

 

I want to change from a Class B 4 cylinder compound to a Class A three cylinder compound, lovely looking engines. They would have gone to Peterborough, the real station not to that other railway, the one crossed over the LNWR line by the river.

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As to a Pre-75 overhead EMUs (I see no mention of "British" being specified), then ... the Victorian 'Tait' sets. An honourable mention for the PRR MP54.

If it really does have to be British, then as nice as those AM1s are, they are 4 rail units converted as a test, so kinda cheating. I'm going to have to go with the LB&SCR, probably the SL stock in it's original 3 car formation.

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48 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I want to change from a Class B 4 cylinder compound to a Class A three cylinder compound, lovely looking engines.


See this is what I mean. I go looking for pictures of LNWR Class A or LNWR Class B, and the best looking examples that turn up happen to be Google misdirecting me to LNWR Class E or F locos, which appear to be broadly similar only someone shoved a front axle on them and turned them into 2-8-0s...

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6 hours 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)

No contest, Cl303 Blue Trains!

 

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13 minutes ago, 37Oban said:

Have we partially highjacked this thread?  Sorry, Gilbert, I blame Clive!

 

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Gilbert asked me to help with overhead EMUs so I gave him a list ready for tomorrow's or what ever day Gilbert ask us which is the bestest EMU with a coat hanger on its roof.

 

I have been a good boy and suggested the most lovely of all the LNWR 0-8-0s which have no equals from lesser railways...had the MR had a 0-8-0 then I am sure it would be the winner.

 

Ah, for Gilbert, the next best looking loco, what about the best 0-10-0 tender loco in Britain.

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I put an E instead of a W, whatta mistake to make.
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14 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Oi Roja

 

Gilbert asked me to help with overhead EMUs so I gave him a list ready for tomorrow's or what ever day Gilbert ask us which is the bestest EMU with a coat hanger on its roof.

 

I have been a good boy and suggested the most lovely of all the LNWR 0-8-0s which have no equals from lesser railways...had the MR had a 0-8-0 then I am sure it would be the winner.

 

Ah, for Gilbert, the next best looking loco, what about the best 0-10-0 tender loco in Britain.

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54 minutes ago, 37Oban said:

Have we partially highjacked this thread?  Sorry, Gilbert, I blame Clive!

 

Roja

No, don't do that. I asked him for suggestions for the EMU poll, but it isn't time to vote in that yet. We are still on 0.8.0s.

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I decided against syphoning sludge today, and instead fired up the ancient laptop and literally surrounded myself with every bit of information I might possibly need. 10 different sources in the end. Then I realised I had forgotten how to use the laptop. A bit of experimental prodding, and I was back in business, but I'm doing this in comfort downstairs, and quite often I had to go up and test run to make sure that the information I'm putting on the slides is correct. it really was hard at first, but as often happens, it got easier as time went by, and I've actually managed to get through about one fifth of it. A pretty good day in the end, I suppose.

 

You get one more look at Sandwich tonight, a rear three quarter, which I think shows A3s at their best. This is one of Tim's latest and best, and deserves plenty of exposure.

 

 

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For some reason this image just turned blue when I tried to locat the bottom of it, and go to the next one, so it comes separately. A March K1 has brought a short parcels a very short way, just up from East, and its journey is now over.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Oi Roja

 

Gilbert asked me to help with overhead EMUs so I gave him a list ready for tomorrow's or what ever day Gilbert ask us which is the bestest EMU with a coat hanger on its roof.

 

I have been a good boy and suggested the most lovely of all the LNWR 0-8-0s which have no equals from lesser railways...had the MR had a 0-8-0 then I am sure it would be the winner.

 

Ah, for Gilbert, the next best looking loco, what about the best 0-10-0 tender loco in Britain.

If only the Highland built an 0-8-0 or similar, though I agree about the LNWR locos. 

 

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1 hour ago, 37Oban said:

If only the Highland built an 0-8-0 or similar

 

 

They nearly did... Peter Drummond did a GA drawing for one at the start of the century. It never left the drawing board, and was based on the CR one in some aspects. I did a take on it last year as a whim, using the Bachmann  LNWR chassis for ease and some hacked about GBL T9 bodies. Here it is sitting on shed at Helmsdale, ready for the next coal train south from the Brora coal mine.....

 

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I'd forgotten to fit axleguards as can be seen .... 

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