RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2021 Next on the Up is the Tees-Tyne Pullman, one of the least inspirationally named A4s, Walter K Whigham, but apparently one of Top Shed's best. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 I'm fascinated by the reasons people give for their choices. Kitmaster helped to make Harrow the winner with 5 votes, Repton second with 3. Today we are off to the Isle of Wight. Best name of that island's locos please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 The local heritage Railway on the IOW have renamed their loco The Needles in appreciation of the Vaccines. 6 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 W31 Chale. Cabbed at Brading in August 1965, when I was 9 years old. We were staying at a holiday camp in St Helens (nowadays it would be called a resort, but 55-and-a-half years ago it was definitely a holiday camp) and Dad decided we would go to Shanklin for the evening, by train. That was my last trip behind ordinary working BR steam (there weren't very many before that, to be honest). 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 28 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: The local heritage Railway on the IOW have renamed their loco The Needles in appreciation of the Vaccines. Was there ever a locomotive called Incorrigible? If so, did they have you in mind? 1 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Carisbrooke Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 If the heritage railway is included, then I will vote for Nuclear Fred - what a lovely name! If not, none of them grab me. Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said: The local heritage Railway on the IOW have renamed their loco The Needles in appreciation of the Vaccines. Too good for the 'groan' button (if we still had one), so duly accorded a 'round of applause'. Nice one, Duckie. Now then, Isle of Wight Steam Locomotives. An interesting list here: https://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/IsleofWightSteam.htm Seems it was a complex history, in terms of different types of locos going back in time and names being transferred ... I think what today's poll boils down to is 'name your favourite place on the Isle of Wight'. I've only been once! More memorable than 'favourite' was Shanklin. From pictures, a wonderful terminus station, straight out of a tunnel from the fiddle yard. Wouldn't it be great if the railway ran back in to there? In a fit of empathy, the bus we were on expired up a rather steep hill out of the town and we had to be hastily evacuated amidst smoke coming from the back of the bus! We walked the rest of the way to Sandown. So, whether its Beyer Peacock 1864-built 2-4-0T No.W14 (w/d 11/1927) or LSWR 1892-built O2 0-0-4T No.W20 (w/d 12/1966) , my vote goes to: SHANKLIN 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 1 hour ago, great northern said: Was there ever a locomotive called Incorrigible? If so, did they have you in mind? Irresistible and indefatigable perhaps? Hey - a whole new category of poll: loco name that best describes Mr Duck ... or anyone on here for that matter. That could run for a long time ... and get a lot of people into a lot of trouble. We'll need a good lawyer to preside over it all ... 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 (edited) My vote goes to W35 "Freshwater" as it was the last steam loco to take us to Ventnor in Autumn 1966 and was relatively well groomed in my pictures. The evidence. A poor print - my home processing wasn't that marvellous as a 16 year old! We also definitely saw W31 "Chale" that day, but it was almost unidentifiable under the grime (others were unidentifiable in my pictures taken that day). Regards Chris H Edited January 21, 2021 by Metropolitan H Added picture 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Freshwater for me as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 My vote goes to Fishbourne, for no other reason than my now wife bought me this surprise present a couple of years ago. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 4 hours ago, great northern said: Was there ever a locomotive called Incorrigible? If so, did they have you in mind? How about a poll for names which could have been carried by a genuine locomotive class? (There was something like this for Westerns some time ago.) Incorrigible could have been a Jubilee or Warship. In my head there lurks a Southern layout. Obviously, the Southern would have built more large express locos so my top link would be Lord Hornblower, Sir Richard Bolitho, Lord Ramage, Aubrey-Maturin and (mixing genres), Sir Hubert Guest. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 Did I miss the Nelsons? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 52 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: Did I miss the Nelsons? No, Gilbert just forgot to put his other eye in 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 8 minutes ago, 69843 said: No, Gilbert just forgot to put his other eye in I am being unpredictable, and though I have detachable ears, my eyes are still firmly fixed in place. And both arms. 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Ryde for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Clive Mortimore Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2021 Cowes. I had been working on one of the Army's landing craft when I was posted to Marchwood. The bosun suggested I join them on a jolly around the Isle of White. Southampton water was very clam, it started to get a bit choppy as we passed between Portsmouth and Ryde. By the time we got to the Needles our flat bottom landing craft wasn't doing so well, neither were the crew. I was the only one in army greens not in the blues the RCT seamen wore and the only one without a green face. In the end they told me to take the helm, and every now and then someone would appear and tell me to go to port or starboard. Owing to my total lack knowledge of these terms they had to make things simple, "Go F'ing Left". By the time we got to Cowes things had settled down as had the crew's stomachs. They were very kind and let me pilot the landing craft back to Marchwood with gentle commands like "go to the right of the green buoy". None of the other crews invited me to join them putting the experience of the my trip as a bad omen having me aboard. 7 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 5 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Did I miss the Nelsons? You know what they say. Just blink at the wrong moment, and.... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2021 Following the A4 is March B17 Milton with the morning stopper from Doncaster via Lincoln and Boston. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 11 hours ago, great northern said: Today we are off to the Isle of Wight. Best name of that island's locos please. Charming though the Isle of Wight and its history of steam locos undoubtedly are (yes, I've got RTR models of Terriers and O2s...), I'm afraid that none of them fascinate me as much as the use of redundant Underground stock on the Island. Which is a long-winded way of abstaining from this particular poll... 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 10 hours ago, LNER4479 said: Too good for the 'groan' button (if we still had one), so duly accorded a 'round of applause'. Nice one, Duckie. Now then, Isle of Wight Steam Locomotives. An interesting list here: https://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/IsleofWightSteam.htm Seems it was a complex history, in terms of different types of locos going back in time and names being transferred ... I think what today's poll boils down to is 'name your favourite place on the Isle of Wight'. I've only been once! More memorable than 'favourite' was Shanklin. From pictures, a wonderful terminus station, straight out of a tunnel from the fiddle yard. Wouldn't it be great if the railway ran back in to there? In a fit of empathy, the bus we were on expired up a rather steep hill out of the town and we had to be hastily evacuated amidst smoke coming from the back of the bus! We walked the rest of the way to Sandown. So, whether its Beyer Peacock 1864-built 2-4-0T No.W14 (w/d 11/1927) or LSWR 1892-built O2 0-0-4T No.W20 (w/d 12/1966) , my vote goes to: SHANKLIN Ventnor, shirley? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 5 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Did I miss the Nelsons? I don't remember any 4-CORs carrying names. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 4 hours ago, great northern said: I am being unpredictable, and though I have detachable ears, my eyes are still firmly fixed in place. And both arms. There's no 'arm in that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: I don't remember any 4-CORs carrying names. They were lovely trains, both visually and to ride in. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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