Peterborough North

[thegreenhowards]

GNR Quads for me too. What a wonderfully successful design.

[great northern]

Another light engine this morning, a J6 on its way to Ramsey to work the afternoon goods back to New England.

 

 

[great northern]

Quad Arts 8, the rest nowhere. I wonder if those who travelled on them on a regular basis would have agreed though?

 

Today, post grouping ordinary corridor stock, not special/streamlined cars.

[St Enodoc]

Gilbert, I'll assume that you mean post-grouping but pre-nationalisation, in which case I nominate the GWR Centenary stock.

[thegreenhowards]

3 minutes ago, great northern said:

Quad Arts 8, the rest nowhere. I wonder if those who travelled on them on a regular basis would have agreed though?

 

Today, post grouping ordinary corridor stock, not special/streamlined cars.

You didn’t specify best for customer comfort. If you had I might have gone for the GNR royal saloons! I was marking the quads parts on their fitness for the role intended. As a design to cram a lot of seats into the very short length available (imposed by the platform length constraints at Moorgate) they were fantastic. They also did so with a very modest weight per seat.

 

For this poll, I think I’ll skip over the obvious Gresley corridor stock and go for the Thompsons.

 

 

[TrevorP1]

Bullied stock for carriages please Gilbert.

[3rd Rail Exile]

Another vote for Bulleid carriages please...

[SJR]

Bullied coaches too please Gilbert.

[Mallard60022]

Bulleids (except Taverns when first built).

P

[David Bell]

GWR Centenary stock for me too 

[LNER4479]

Well I'm going to go straight down the middle and vote for classic Gresley teak stock. Difficult to define any sort of period for that as it was under continuous development from pre-WW1 GNR days. But, given the wonderful variety of such stock that we can call on for Grantham - largely the work of Jonathan Wealleans and Roy Mears, including several articulated examples - it gets my vote today.

(Silver Link pic courtesy Tony Wright)

Edited February 6, 2021 by LNER4479

[JamieR4489]

Gresley 61'6" stock for me as well

[2750Papyrus]

I have to go for Gresley corridor stock as well, gleaming with an apple green loco on the front.

 

[Woodcock29]

Gresley gangwayed stock for me to.

Andrew

[jazzer]

42 minutes ago, Woodcock29 said:

Gresley gangwayed stock for me to.

Andrew

And me.

[Mallard60022]

Looks or Comfort? needs to be asked!

P

[Clive Mortimore]

You are all barking up the wrong tree. Have a look at my nomination for today and then go and edit your votes.

 

LMS period 2 coaches both for looks and comfort.

 

[Oldddudders]

Era is everything here. Maunsells looked and were rather good in the mid-20s when they first appeared, but were wholly out of date by 1945 when they still made up most of Southern's coach fleet. But Bulleid's ideas about coaching stock were equally a la mode when built, and seem to have influenced Mark 1 BR stock too. So Bulleid it is. 

 

Just a quick phone-pic.

 

[CHAZ D]

Has to be bulleid stock for me

[Metropolitan H]

Another vote for the SR Bulleid stock here.

 

Regards

Chris H

[jollysmart]

Choice this time is Gresley gangwayed stock.

[DaveF]

 Gresley corridor stock.

 

David

[Denbridge]

10 hours ago, great northern said:

Quad Arts 8, the rest nowhere. I wonder if those who travelled on them on a regular basis would have agreed though?

 

Today, post grouping ordinary corridor stock, not special/streamlined cars.

GWR Churchward toplights 

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Gresley stock.

 

manna

[great northern]

The 9.55am Up Newcastle, one of the more prestigious expresses. So, what do Gateshead provide?

 

 

Please observe the shaft of sunlight hitting the coach on the barrow crossing. How does it still manage to get through to the horsebox behind ?