RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2021 Glenfinnan for me please... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I'll go for Glen Shiel. There are two Glen Shiels, one by Glenfinnan and one at Shiel Bridge on the A87 towards Skye. I have many memories of driving up and down the second Glen Shiel on my way away from or towards my then home on Skye. I was even involved in the maintenance on that road for a time. Talking of Skye, at one time (maybe still there) there was a sign on the West side of the island to the 'Skye Diving Centre'. Confusing? Lloyd 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I see on Wikipedia that it is spelt Sheil rather than Shiel. Is that a Wikipedia mistake or a NBR mistake? Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2021 Glen Ogle an interesting drive in the winter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Glenfinnan for me. I built the GEM kit back in 1978 and named it Glenfinnan but sold it many years ago. It was a build of the time with my limited experience at that stage. Recently I've seen it in a second-hand shop at Strathalbyn on the eastern side of the Mt Lofty Ranges not far from Adelaide. At least it's in a place with a Scottish name! Andrew 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Glenfinnan gets my vote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 2 hours ago, FarrMan said: Talking of Skye, at one time (maybe still there) there was a sign on the West side of the island to the 'Skye Diving Centre'. Confusing? Love it! Rather reminds me of this (from Oop North, where black pudding is made): 1 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 ... all of which has nothing whatsoever to do with D34s. Ah, what the heck - I'll go for Glenfinnan as well. What a cracking spot. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2021 62490 Glen Fintaig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Glen Garry, really takes the biscuit. Oops sorry! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2021 I’ll go for Glen Sheil. Home to some of the finest mountain walks in the UK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2021 Glenfinnan for me too. For no other reason than I like Concrete Bob's viaduct. Regards Lez. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2021 I’m also going with Glenfinnan for this poll. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) Glen Lyon. Plenty to choose from as many of the class worked regularly on local turns from Fife into The Waverley travelling through the west of the city and of course there were a number at St. Margarets seen all over the area. I chose this as it was transferred from Perth down to Hawick in 1960 and worked over The Waverley Route until late 1961 when it was withdrawn. It then ended up on the deadline at Haymarket for a few months and was the last Glen I saw in service and of course cabbed it at 64B along with dozens of other lads! Edited January 29, 2021 by 60027Merlin 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2021 8 hours ago, LNER4479 said: Love it! Rather reminds me of this (from Oop North, where black pudding is made): Not quite along the same lines but near us there are two businesses next door to each other - a veterinary hospital and a gourmet butcher... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2021 The Midday MFO down Newcastle is next, KX A3 Melton in charge. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 30, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2021 No stop here for Melton, so on she goes, driver ready to get back up to speed very shortly. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 30, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2021 An easy winner today. Glenfinnan with 6 votes, nothing else more than 2. Today it is locomotives named after Castles. Any railway/region/era counts. Which is the best? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted January 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, great northern said: An easy winner today. Glenfinnan with 6 votes, nothing else more than 2. Today it is locomotives named after Castles. Any railway/region/era counts. Which is the best? 61633 Kimbolton Castle 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Such a lot of Castles to chose from. I was tempted by Drysllwyn Castle on the grounds of the amusement seeing non-welsh folk trying to pronounce it (Drysllwyn has three vowels in it!), and also because it was carried by three different locos of the same class (5051, 5076, and 7018). Is that a record? But I have to go for 100A1 Lloyds, for obvious reasons. Lloyd 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Kimbolton Castle 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 MSC Railway big Hudswell Shunters, 4001 & 4002. Alnwick and Arundel Castle. Chris. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 LMS (former Highland Railway) No.14686 Urquhart Castle, because: Out of principle, I'm avoiding anything GWR(!) And We sailed past the castle itself in Autumn 2019 as part of a Caledonian canal cruise: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2021 OK, someone's got to do the obvious - 34039 Boscastle, 35002 Union Castle, or maybe 30742 Camelot... If these are all ruled "Out of Order" and I have to resort to names referring to real stone-built structures, then I'll have to venture to the dark side and go for 5034 Corfe Castle - a location I presume was fortunate enough not to be regularly visited by the foreign over-blinged locomotive bearing its name... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2021 I thought about one of the HR Castles, probably Ballindalloch Castle, but in the end I've reverted to Cornwall and of the several names for such edifices in the Duchy I'm going to choose Tregenna Castle, which is more a castellated mansion than a proper castle but is best known as a very fine hotel. We stayed there for the wedding of one of my former wife's nieces in the early 1990s - her father was the resident manager at that time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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