CUTLER2579 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Just to be different the Gn & M for me as well. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 16, 2020 Clear poll winner is the Midland and Great Northern, bit there were a number of other suggestions. Perhaps the geographical area could have been a bit narrower, as there were so many lovely routes to choose from. Today is definitely narrower, though still plenty of choices. Taking the same area, which is/was the most attractive and characterful branch line to the seaside? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 16, 2020 The Southwold Railway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 As Whittlesea used to be called Whittle-on-Sea, does that count? Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 As my layout is based upon it, the Hunstanton branch. Stewart Though there are others........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Melton Constable - Cromer Beach, nowadays partly preserved as the North Norfolk Railway and the Bittern Line. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 16, 2020 1 hour ago, FarrMan said: As Whittlesea used to be called Whittle-on-Sea, does that count? Lloyd It counts as a nice try. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted June 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2020 A plonk with your tea. It will be bedded in, honest. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted June 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2020 The Newquay branch; scenic diversity, operationally interesting and lovely beaches at the end. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted June 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2020 No hiding the dust and wobbly lamp when 60002 is seen this close up. The image police have pronounced this to be seriously deficient, and ordered that you should have an extra photo to go with your tea, so heris another plonk. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Weymouth to Easton, a branch that left England! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted June 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 16, 2020 Does Maldon count as a seaside place, if so the Maldon branch from Witham. If not the Southend Branch from Shenfield. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: Does Maldon count as a seaside place, if so the Maldon branch from Witham. If not the Southend Branch from Shenfield. I've mainly seen mud at Southend not the sea and it is at the mouth of the Thames. The sea seems to be round the corner beyond even more mud. Does it even count? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted June 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, mullie said: I've mainly seen mud at Southend not the sea and it is at the mouth of the Thames. The sea seems to be round the corner beyond even more mud. Does it even count? Maldon has more mud. 1 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted June 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) Well, there's a first! In all these 10,000+ pages, I don't think we have ever discussed mud, or the lack of it. A mud poll perhaps? Or perhaps not. We will though have a Colwick to KX Goods passing through. Vans, opens and pipes and tubes is the load. I'm wondering if a Colwick engine would have taken this all the way to London, rather than coming off at New England. Anyway, that's what happened on this day, though it is a Lincoln K3 in charge. Then we have another plonk. Edited June 16, 2020 by great northern Can't count 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Maldon has more mud. Do like Maldon, famous for its battle in 991 AD, sea salt, mooring place for Thames barges, two branchlines and being not far from Tiptree, home of the Wilkins jam factory and where the Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway passed through. Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 5 hours ago, mullie said: I've mainly seen mud at Southend not the sea and it is at the mouth of the Thames. The sea seems to be round the corner beyond even more mud. Does it even count? G'Day Folks Drove along the seafront one night during a storm and the waves were coming over the roadway, car was covered in seawater. manna (Ex Southend resident) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted June 17, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2020 More plonks this morning, as I'm a bit behind with processing. A forecourt view towards Station Road. and two gentlemen deep in conversation. 27 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 17, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2020 I think we will abandon this poll, as it attracts little interest. There was as much about mud as there were suggestions about branch lines. Only four nominations, all different. One suggestion was that we should discuss Titled Train Names, so I'll try that, and we'll start with pre war names, looking for the best and most evocative. Or have you just had enough of polls altogether? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 "Flying Scotsman" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 The "Cheltenham Spa Express" or "Cheltenham Flier" as it was nicknamed due to its world record timing between Swindon and Paddington. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2020 The Atlantic Coast Express, a name coined by an employee - who I believe later lost his life in an accident - did attempt to do what it said on the tin. But by the time it got anywhere near the Atlantic it was on single-track branches of essentially gentle speed. If only the present incumbent ran trains fast from Waterloo to Salisbury and then fast to Exeter, though............ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2020 The Coronation. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 17, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2020 Golden Arrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I think ‘The Flying Scotsman’ has to be the most evocative, mostly due to it becoming a household name that immediately makes anyone think of fast rail travel in the ‘20s and ‘30s. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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