RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2021 I'm going for a High Flyer 4-4-2. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted February 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 10, 2021 I have a soft spot for Baltic tanks so my vote goes to the Hughes 4-6-4T "Dreadnought Tanks"! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted February 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 10, 2021 1 hour ago, DaveF said: I'm going for a High Flyer 4-4-2. David Me too. I love an Atlantic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted February 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2021 Hughes 4-6-0, todays choice from the selection that has a number of deserving examples to choose from. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 G'Day Folks Hughes Baltic tank. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted February 10, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 10, 2021 Back to the big stuff now, as 60002 comes through with the Fair Maid. Another one on the Timming list. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2021 For this poll I’m also going with the Hughes 4-6-0. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 (edited) I have two options. Clearly the Dreadnought 4-6-0s deserve some mention as they as they were imposing machines, even if not engineered that well. I've built two Millholme kits so they have a place in my heart. One for me and one for a mate, which I have now got back. The other is the steam railmotor. The last of its type to run in Britain, with the last being withdrawn in 1948. I've also built one of these from the Jidenco kit (lets not start that conversation though) for the same mate, which I've also got back now. In the end it came out quite well but did involve a lot of scratch-building. In the end my vote goes for the steam railmotor as there are no other examples of the classic steam rail motors preserved (discounting the GWR rebuild), other than here in South Australia. Andrew Edited February 11, 2021 by Woodcock29 added comment 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Woodcock29 said: no other examples of the classic steam rail motors preserved There's one in Switzerland, which I rode on in 1982, but it's only a four-wheeler not a bogie vehicle. https://www.lococarriage.org.uk/Swiss19-21 Uerikon-Bauma Bahn .JPG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) 55 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: There's one in Switzerland, which I rode on in 1982, but it's only a four-wheeler not a bogie vehicle. https://www.lococarriage.org.uk/Swiss19-21 Uerikon-Bauma Bahn .JPG John what I was trying to say was there are no others except the SAR example which to me is a classic steam railmotor (at least that I know of) where the loco section looks like a loco, like a lot of the early British examples, eg GNR, LYR, LSWR etc. That's why I discounted the GWR rebuild - not because it was a rebuild - to me its a box, well a carriage in this case, on wheels. Hence why preserving a LYR example would have been so good. Andrew Edited February 11, 2021 by Woodcock29 typo 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted February 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2021 Another very cold start to a day, but again a promise of lots of sunshine. More trains to run, more photos, and less rationing, I hope. Another look at Sir Murrough as he approaches the platform. He won't be stopping though. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted February 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 A good response to the LYR, and a close finish, a tie in fact, 4-4 for the 4.6.0 and the Baltic tank. Staying over on that side of the country, what is the glaring omission in the ranks of preserved locomotives of the London and North Western Railway? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denbridge Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, great northern said: A good response to the LYR, and a close finish, a tie in fact, 4-4 for the 4.6.0 and the Baltic tank. Staying over on that side of the country, what is the glaring omission in the ranks of preserved locomotives of the London and North Western Railway? A Claughton 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 There are too many LNWR locos that fit the good looking category. Even Mr Webb's 0-8-0 compounds, despite expecting Jimmy Durante too be sat at the front singing "Playing My Piana" had that family likeness. I suppose the Prince of Wales class was the ultimate perfection of the family line and one should have been saved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) Too many to cite just one! The LNWR was once the largest joint stock company in the Kingdom and built literally thousands of locomotives. Yet it was a particular victim of the ruthless LMS 1930s standardisation policy (albeit much-needed). As a result, only the Super D 0-8-0 and Coal tank 0-6-2T types lasted in any numbers into BR day. Fortunately, one of each of those is preserved. But, as for the rest, the last survivors of the Claughton, Precursor and Prince of Wales types were all cut up at Crewe without ceremony in 1949, a loss that resonates with many LNWR fans to this day. I'm tempted to also go with the Claughton but I think I'll plump for the George the Fifth 4-4-0. Apparently they were quite decent locos - better than some of their larger contemporary 4-6-0 cousins. Loco No.1800 'Coronation' of 1911 (hence - presumably? - the name) was the 5,000th loco built at Crewe Works and was paraded alongside its rather larger 1937 successor as part of the LMS publicity film for the launch of the Coronation Scot. There's a project to create a new loco (a la Tornado) so maybe, one day, the world will get to see one in action again? Edited February 11, 2021 by LNER4479 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Agree with a Claughton Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 A Cauliflower for me, please. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Would you like cheese sauce with that? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 1 minute ago, LNER4479 said: Would you like cheese sauce with that? Wensleydale? 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 18 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I suppose the Prince of Wales class was the ultimate perfection of the family line and one should have been saved. And there was me thinking you'd be chancing another yellow card by nominating the Oerlikon 650vDC stock for the Watford services? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Just now, St Enodoc said: Wensleydale? Cracking! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 Just now, LNER4479 said: Cracking! See, there's the generation gap in action! To those of a certain age, the correct answer would have been "Yes?". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted February 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: Would you like cheese sauce with that? ear ear. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 A jubilee Class.. so elegant! Baz 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 34 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: And there was me thinking you'd be chancing another yellow card by nominating the Oerlikon 650vDC stock for the Watford services? There is one persevered, so it would been eliminated form the voting system. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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