RMweb Gold Bazza Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2020 It has to be the Class 52, Western for me . A good looking and powerful loco unlike Class 40s etc that were overweight and underpowered. Hardly an advance on the steam locos they were replacing. Bazza Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2020 I vote for the Westerns Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 22, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 22, 2020 V2s tonight, and with consecutive numbers too. 60875 is now at the south end with the 7.25 to KX. and ten minutes after that one left,60874 moved off on its parliamentary journey to Doncaster. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 G'Day Folks Class 40's great fun to shunt around and drive and full of character, class 47, great loco for any job. but for me a class 46, quiet, comfortable, loved them, but unappreciated. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 14 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Does that include those built in the 70s for all the coal traffic to lose their traffic in the 80s? Of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 23, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2020 Here we are again. Your images this morning are of our more mundane sightings at PN. Coal is still heading for London, though the overnight flow is slackening. There's still room for another WD to slip through the bottleneck and reach the Up slow. A Leicester train is also approaching, a Stanier tank in charge. Now I must get all my fingers and toes ready to count the poll. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 23, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 Lots of people got involved in this poll, and there were three stand out candidates. Until towards the end it was close, but the Western then pulled away to win fairly comfortably with 10 votes. The Class 40 got 7, and the Class 47 in all its manifestations came third with six. So we move on to Type 5, any Britiish type included. Remember, we are looking more for appearance and style here than for performance. I've mentioned grace before, but I'm not sure that applies to diesels. That is not intended as a derogatory remark, by the way. Impressive is nearer the mark for diesels, In my opinion. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Class 55 Deltic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 Notwithstanding the little pebble I threw in the pond earlier, my vote goes to the production Deltics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 Resistance is futile... Production Deltic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 Deltic! Nothing else comes close. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Deltic for me as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Yep, me too. I had a Lima one, you know. When I was about 10, so 1976-ish, my mother and I went to London to stay with my uncle. Standing on Darlington station, I could hear this dull rumbling getting louder, then I started to feel it through the soles of my feet. It came under the canopy in a deafening roar and this huge shiny blue wall swept past me in a blast of heat and magnificence. I’ve never forgotten it and that sound still does something to me. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Has to be a 55 Deltic for me as well. I think it was the only class that I ever copped all of. Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 HS4000 Kestrel, just so something else features in this poll 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERandBR Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Class 55 Deltic, it has to be a Deltic. As much as I like Grids, Bones and Tugs they're not as charismatic as the Deltics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Falcon Attractive and useful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 It’s got to be a Deltic for me, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Production Deltic for me too. Though I do like a 56. Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Production Deltic for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 23, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 I don't like prejudging things, but the identity of the winner of the type 5 category already appears to be rather clear. Nothing wrong with that of course, there are some locos which really do seem to most people to stand out from the crowd. I wouldn't want anyone to be put off voting because they think the result is a foregone conclusion though, so how about a separate poll for non passenger working type 5s? The two can then run side by side. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 23, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2020 Oops, forgot the tea break image. It features the one that got away, our little J3, that the official records would have you believe was scrapped several years ago. It is running tender first along the engine road, on its way to do some light shunting down at south yard, or possibly Fletton. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 1 minute ago, great northern said: Oops, forgot the tea break image. It features the one that got away, our little J3, that the official records would have you believe was scrapped several years ago. It is running tender first along the engine road, on its way to do some light shunting down at south yard, or possibly Fletton. Now, and in retrospect, that is what epitomises the railway to me - be it branch or main line. You can keep your gleaming Pacifics - the staple diet of us trainspotters was the mundane and unremarkable - even if we did deride such locos at the time. A wonderful, atmospheric photo. Regards, John Isherwood. 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold A Murphy Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2020 I love the J3 Gilbert and agree with John's comment above, although I like gleaming (and not so gleaming) Pacifics too! Best wishes, Alastair 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Just so it’s not alone, can I change my vote to Kestrel as well? Hopelessly romantic I know, as it was a prototype that never succeeded, but what the heck? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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