380John Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Captain Cuttle 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Sansovino is another great name. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2020 Blink Bonny, lovely name. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 15 hours ago, drmditch said: It's a shame that Gannets and Fulmars weren't used, ... Ahem ... https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p535766136/h499E3E84#h499e3e84 9 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I agree but for a different reason - given that one was named Herring Gull, why name another after the same generic type of bird? Like I say, running out of ideas ... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) Sandwich. Donovan. Woolwinder. Pretty Polly. Isinglass. Call Boy!!!!!! Gay Crusader! I need to narrow this down....... Edited December 29, 2020 by Mallard60022 Duplicated name. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 47 minutes ago, great northern said: Best A3 name please. Oh, Gilbert - far too many to choose from! But of course - for me - it can only be: LNER4479! Perhaps better known to you as 60110 'Robert the Devil' (According to Wikipedia, the origin of the name given to the racehorse involved could have been 'Robert the Magnificent', Duke of Normandy and the father - albeit illegitimately - of William the Conqueror of 1066 fame. With a back story like that, the name of 4479/60110 only grows on me!) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Nobody entering the flying money pit in this quiz? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, great northern said: .... Best A3 name please. Woolwinder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) 39 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: Ahem ... https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p535766136/h499E3E84#h499e3e84 Like I say, running out of ideas ... Whoops - sorry. Forgot to check. But you surely can't complain about Gannets (unless you are a fish of course!) A bit pre-occupied with more bridge girders. Re: A3 names - Centenary please (what with the bi-centenary coming up). Edited December 29, 2020 by drmditch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bigwordsmith Posted December 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2020 Sorry to be a damper folks but FYI I’m in hospital with Covid - don’t recommend it! 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: Sorry to be a damper folks but FYI I’m in hospital with Covid - don’t recommend it! Get well soon! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I will go with Night Hawk, that well known call sign from Allo Allo. Night Hawk calling London 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Some wonderful names and some curious ones but naming express locos after racehorses was an inspired moved likely to turn up some curiosities. As a child, I was enthralled by Henry Charles Webster's book "Legend of a Locomotive", so I have to cast my vote in accordance with my forum name, Papyrus. A great shame she was not preserved, though I believe her driving wheels still turn but under 4472. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2020 The A3 list is littered with fine names for a loco, but possibly Coronach is as good as any. The links with the best bloodstock strikes me as a very good theme for a railway that had so much fine, high-speed trackage. I regret I find this to be a much better "fit" than the birds in A4 etc. Birds and seabirds may be magnificent to watch, but how many actually go very far from home? For a railway with so many trains joining the capitals of England and Scotland, homebirds resonate oddly. BTW, if you wish to buy a racehorse and enter it, the Jockey Club requires it to be registered, and Weatherbys are the firm to do this on their behalf. They will run your proposed name through their database to ensure no similar name is currently in training. While offensive names will be rejected, humorous ones may not be, hence in recent decades 'Dig Up St Edmunds' and 'Give Back Calais'. However, some owners try a different tack, which is sometimes allowed and then regretted. Imagine the commentators' nightmare of having to identify two from the '90s - 'Joe Blob' and 'Mary Hinge'. I believe the owner was told retrospectively they would need to be renamed.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: BTW, if you wish to buy a racehorse and enter it, the Jockey Club requires it to be registered, and Weatherbys are the firm to do this on their behalf. They will run your proposed name through their database to ensure no similar name is currently in training. While offensive names will be rejected, humorous ones may not be, hence in recent decades 'Dig Up St Edmunds' and 'Give Back Calais'. However, some owners try a different tack, which is sometimes allowed and then regretted. Imagine the commentators' nightmare of having to identify two from the '90s - 'Joe Blob' and 'Mary Hinge'. I believe the owner was told retrospectively they would need to be renamed.... Hoof Hearted was one that escaped close scrutiny in recent years 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, bigwordsmith said: Sorry to be a damper folks but FYI I’m in hospital with Covid - don’t recommend it! Hi Pete Fingers crossed for a quick recovery. 3 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 This is very difficult- so many great names. But I'm happy to go with Woolwinder. I have a model of her as an A1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2020 3 hours ago, great northern said: Best A3 name please. Pretty Polly Or is it the one named after Gordon Brown, "Lying Scotsman".......whoops there was some dirt covering the first letter. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Oldddudders said: The A3 list is littered with fine names for a loco, but possibly Coronach is as good as any. The links with the best bloodstock strikes me as a very good theme for a railway that had so much fine, high-speed trackage. I regret I find this to be a much better "fit" than the birds in A4 etc. Birds and seabirds may be magnificent to watch, but how many actually go very far from home? For a railway with so many trains joining the capitals of England and Scotland, homebirds resonate oddly. BTW, if you wish to buy a racehorse and enter it, the Jockey Club requires it to be registered, and Weatherbys are the firm to do this on their behalf. They will run your proposed name through their database to ensure no similar name is currently in training. While offensive names will be rejected, humorous ones may not be, hence in recent decades 'Dig Up St Edmunds' and 'Give Back Calais'. However, some owners try a different tack, which is sometimes allowed and then regretted. Imagine the commentators' nightmare of having to identify two from the '90s - 'Joe Blob' and 'Mary Hinge'. I believe the owner was told retrospectively they would need to be renamed.... Although I'm not particular 'in' to it as a sport, I did once happen to chance upon the horse-racing museum at Newmarket. It was brilliant - the walls were littered with A3 names!! 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Pete Fingers crossed for a quick recovery. Absolutely. Thoughts and prayers! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CHAZ D Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2020 60106, Flying Fox 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2020 An almost impossible task - there were so many really good names on the A3s - but my vote goes for "Papyrus". Regards Chris H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2020 Hmm. 'My' A3 is 100, Spearmint, but for other reasons. it's not a great name, so perhaps Sunstar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) Papyrus. Because it was such a fine engine. Wasn't it 108mph... ? Actually I was looking for a pic of her as 60096 in 1958-63 form and then I realised that 60504 as illustrated recently by you Gilbert is in fact very good looking, rather nice in fact. Edited December 29, 2020 by robmcg addition 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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