drmditch Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Why. if 'Northumberland' was an acceptable name for a Shire, was none ever named for 'County Durham', where they were all built? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 10, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2021 One look at 60700 is never enough. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 And another vote for Lincolnshire! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Lincolnshire for me. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timara Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Hertfordshire, county of my birth! I am biased.... (even if the real loco did fall into the Bridlington turntable pit....) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 G'Day Gents Family come from 'Lincolnshire' and it was based at Kings Cross, for a short time, so that'll be my choice. manna 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2021 The first of the daytime expresses from Newcastle follows the W1. Grantham A3 Enterprise has taken over at its home shed. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 Well, there's a thing! No need for me to flip any votes, or use any other underhand methods. Big win for the county of my birth, Lincolnshire, 7 votes to Yorkshire and Morayshire's 3. Is it worth doing the Hunts? Let's give it a go. Tribalism can work again, I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I will go with The Zetland because that was the name of the park I played in as a kid, in Grangemouth. It was so named because the land was gifted to the community by the Earl of Zetland . Other than that it has no connection to the hunt which I think was based in the North East of England. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2021 62756 The Brocklesby. 5 miles from my house and I often used to see them out, can't get much more tribal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 For reasons that I will not discuss on here I cannot participate in today's poll. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 The Morpeth - a touch of tribalism, plus feeling sorry for it as it is the one Thompson ruined. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 The Atherstone, which is the closest to anywhere that I have lived (Polesworth). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 62774 The Staintondale Nice sounding name and I 'discovered' the station of the same name when me and my bike once negotiated the trackbed of the legendary Scarborough-Whitby coastal railway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jazzer Posted January 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2021 Good morning my virtual friends. After almost three weeks of being overwhelmed with coronavirus and not knowing the time of day , let alone the day of the , this morning I feel I am moving back into the land of the living .The strange thing is though, through all this befuddled thinking , the one thing that had a a sense of reality to was these completely pointless competitions about favourite or unfavourite locomotive names, plus off course photos of some long withdrawn class clattering through PN almost a life time ago. So thank you , everyone that has made this thread what it is the last couple of weeks and helping to preserve my (in)sanity when I needed it most 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2021 The Holderness. It’s the nearest hunt to where I live. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2021 The Percy, which we foot-followed (by car!) about 40 years ago on NY Day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 Has to be 62764 "The Garth" - as a kid, we occasionally saw that Hunt meet, but I don't remember ever seeing one of the locos. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon4470 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 The Morpeth for me as well - it’s a sympathy vote because of the rebuild it was subjected to. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Not as an entrant for voting, more an aside. Always vehemently denied by others as not possible, but I saw 62729 Rutlandshire, and 62744 The Holderness, on the St. Ives loop out of Cambridge, c1959/60. I remember seeing the nameplates, then underling them in my ABC & wondering why they were not the local names of Cambridgeshire or Huntingdonshire! To add to the mystery, in later years I met another Cambridge spotter, who became my best friend (though sadly now deceased). One day these cops came up in conversation; he had seen them at Cambridge as well..... Anyone else able to shed any light? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 The Brocklesby, local to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Is it acceptable to follow a Hunt class locomotive if the centre big end heat detector is filled with aniseed rather than oil of violets? Then at least any hounds in the following train can have a drag race! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I suspect many are uncomfortable with this naming theme. Personally, I understand that certain animals are pests and have to be controlled, but I would prefer that to be by the most humane means possible. On Saturday I had to remove a dead mouse from a trap and felt full of remorse, though for some time it had at night been scratching in the loft immediately above our bed. Irrespective of any such qualms, the naming of these locomotives is a historical fact and the use of similar names for warships also goes back many years. My choice of favourite name is The Pytchley, 62750, after my Trix Twin 4-4-0 of that name. With pocket money of 6d per week, it took many weeks of saving plus birthday and Christmas money to amass the necessary £5-17-6d. Aged maybe 8 or 9, I knew that BR had added 60,000 to LNER numbers and somehow dreamed it was the loco featured in 2750 Legend of a Locomotive, which I had borrowed from the library. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bazza Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2021 My choice is 62736 The Bramham Moor, just because it was the Hornby loco in the Meccano Magazines that I read and reread as a young boy. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 G'Day Folks Living in North Lundun, I never got to see the 'Exotic' loco's from the North, but I'll go for (I think) The Goathland. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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