3rd Rail Exile 433 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 19 minutes ago, great northern said: Lots of different candidates for the B17 vote, decided, as often happens, by a late night, for most of us anyway, vote from down under. Tottenham Hotspur 3 votes, Gilwell Park and Kimbolton Castle 2 each. Shall we try D49s? Shires first, we'll save Hunts till later. This will probably be tribal as well. Yes, tribal seems the way to go here In the (understandable) absence of a D49 named after the county I'm originally from (the 4-letter one down in the bottom-right of the map, even though the particular bit of it I hail from was subsumed into the teeming metropolis in 1965, 4 months before I appeared...), I'll have to vote for my adopted home of 62702 "Oxfordshire". My adopted home was actually within 62730 "Berkshire" during the life of the locos and only became part of Oxfordshire in 1974, but I didn't move into the area until 1990, so "Oxfordshire" it is... Quite why the LNER felt the need to name locos after such distant counties I'm not sure... Link to post Share on other sites
Clive Mortimore 35,538 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 2 hours ago, great northern said: Lots of different candidates for the B17 vote, decided, as often happens, by a late night, for most of us anyway, vote from down under. Tottenham Hotspur 3 votes, Gilwell Park and Kimbolton Castle 2 each. Shall we try D49s? Shires first, we'll save Hunts till later. This will probably be tribal as well. Bedfordshire.......no other county should be considered. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
2750Papyrus 1,076 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Another for Bedfordshire 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LNER4479 19,967 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 62734 'Cumberland' That's very tribal. It was - thoughtfully - a long-term resident of Carlisle Canal shed, county town of the erstwhile county, so will be an obvious choice for me when I get round to acquiring one. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Metropolitan H 1,100 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 My vote goes for the first one - "Yorkshire" - as I would quite like an "O" gauge Hornby one, although they are nowadays normall rather expensive. it also was Father's birth county. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites
Jon4470 952 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Another vote for Yorkshire.....an un-ashamedly tribal vote given where I live! Link to post Share on other sites
jollysmart 195 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Tribal once again. 62710 Lincolnshire. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Flying Fox 34F 572 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Lincolnshire Paul 2 Link to post Share on other sites
CUTLER2579 1,323 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Lincolnshire . 1 Link to post Share on other sites
RMweb Gold Market65 6,542 Posted January 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10 Tribal again from me when I vote for Yorkshire. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites
New Haven Neil 58,235 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Northumberland - tribalism indeed. Link to post Share on other sites
Pilgrim in France 19 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Lincolnshire 1 Link to post Share on other sites
drmditch 1,674 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Why. if 'Northumberland' was an acceptable name for a Shire, was none ever named for 'County Durham', where they were all built? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post great northern 127,128 Posted January 10 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 10 One look at 60700 is never enough. 26 Link to post Share on other sites
37Oban 564 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 And another vote for Lincolnshire! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Woodcock29 2,212 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Lincolnshire for me. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Tim 3,622 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Hertfordshire, county of my birth! I am biased.... (even if the real loco did fall into the Bridlington turntable pit....) Link to post Share on other sites
manna 14,225 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 G'Day Gents Family come from 'Lincolnshire' and it was based at Kings Cross, for a short time, so that'll be my choice. manna 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post great northern 127,128 Posted January 11 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 11 The first of the daytime expresses from Newcastle follows the W1. Grantham A3 Enterprise has taken over at its home shed. 24 Link to post Share on other sites
great northern 127,128 Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 Well, there's a thing! No need for me to flip any votes, or use any other underhand methods. Big win for the county of my birth, Lincolnshire, 7 votes to Yorkshire and Morayshire's 3. Is it worth doing the Hunts? Let's give it a go. Tribalism can work again, I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites
David Bell 2,565 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I will go with The Zetland because that was the name of the park I played in as a kid, in Grangemouth. It was so named because the land was gifted to the community by the Earl of Zetland . Other than that it has no connection to the hunt which I think was based in the North East of England. Link to post Share on other sites
jollysmart 195 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 62756 The Brocklesby. 5 miles from my house and I often used to see them out, can't get much more tribal. Link to post Share on other sites
Clive Mortimore 35,538 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 For reasons that I will not discuss on here I cannot participate in today's poll. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
New Haven Neil 58,235 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 The Morpeth - a touch of tribalism, plus feeling sorry for it as it is the one Thompson ruined. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
St Enodoc 27,510 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 The Atherstone, which is the closest to anywhere that I have lived (Polesworth). Link to post Share on other sites
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