RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 I feel Puku is a singularly unfortunate name for a locomotive. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 12 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: I feel Puku is a singularly unfortunate name for a locomotive. Especially one with a reputation for rough riding once they had a few miles on the clock. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilwell Park Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 61035 Pronghorn. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Putting aside its novelty value, I have to say that GNU is a pretty bizarre name for a steam locomotive , whichever way you look at it. Even if it is the g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo ... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 4 hours ago, LNER4479 said: Putting aside its novelty value, I have to say that GNU is a pretty bizarre name for a steam locomotive , whichever way you look at it. Even if it is the g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo ... One of my colleagues at Brighton lived at Rustington-on-Sea. Not, as far as I know, in furnished lodgings though. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 6, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 Huddersfield Town again tonight, just beginning the journey to Ely. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 For this poll I’ll also vote for Gnu. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 7, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2021 A photographer at the south end of Platform 2 never has to wait long for something new to arrive. The B17 has left, and is replaced by 61130 with the second Up E.Lincs express. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) Worst name fora B1, contrary to everyone else Mayflower. The Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the boat it was named after were a bunch of religious freaks who were basically kicked out of everywhere they went, at a time when even England was ultra Christian. They would have starved if it wasn't for the First Nations people who fed them native food, Turkey and Pumpkin, over the first winter. The First Nations people who spoke English where they were trading with the tobacco planters. The same First Nation people the Pilgrim Fathers then went on to cheat and kill. Towns like Boston, Basildon and Plymouth have been sucked into the American narrative of these poor persecuted people who fled to the New World and were saved by god, by naming everything Mayflower, Pilgrim or after one of the leaders. An American narrative that ignores the fact America became rich on the sale of an addictive substance, grown on land stolen from the native people and farmed by people from another continent (not under their free will). Sorry for the rant. Edited January 7, 2021 by Clive Mortimore 1 6 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 7, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 Result of poll- Bongo 4 Gnu 3. But how can Gnu be the worst, when it was so good they named it twice? A Gnu is a Wildebeest, and there are a lot of those about. Bit of a change today. Best name on a Britannia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 Just now, great northern said: Best name on a Britannia. Lightning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, great northern said: Best name on a Britannia. Blimey - a wide variety to choose from there! Much as I like 70047, I think it's going to have to be a vote for Britannia herself... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bazza Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2021 Flying Dutchman, 70018. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 29 minutes ago, 3rd Rail Exile said: Blimey - a wide variety to choose from there! Much as I like 70047, I think it's going to have to be a vote for Britannia herself... 70047 for me. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Tempted to go for Dornoch Firth since that is what I see out my window, but will vote for Tornado Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 hour ago, great northern said: Best name on a Britannia. Vulcan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 Another vote for Britannia, as I cabbed that at Liverpool St in 1960 and again at Retford circa 2015. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 70054 "Dornoch Firth" As for David Bell hope he knows what a lucky sod he is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 7, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: 70047 for me. I suspect you are being naughty again, Clive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, great northern said: I suspect you are being naughty again, Clive. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I suppose I should go for Moray Firth as I do not need to go far to see it, But it would have to be Lord Roberts as the nearest I get to a loco named after me. My wife has a loco named after her - 'Lady of Legend', after a student put on their feedback form a long time ago 'Lloyd is a legend ...', but the lecturer who took them in pointed out that there was a definite gap between the third and fourth letters! Lloyd Roberts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I think I remember seeing and cabbing Britannia at an exhibition when she was new in 1951. Marylebone or King's Cross? So she has to be my choice, although years later I enjoyed a footplate ride on a sister loco. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 Another vote for "Lightning". Regards Chris H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 7, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2021 39 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I must remember not to upset your mule when we next meet. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2021 Britannia, which I cabbed stone-cold outside Redhill Control where I worked. She was there for safe keeping Christmas 1968. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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