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Quite a lot of suggestions for dubious A3 names, though some of them did not have the same connotations at the time as they have now. The easy winner though was poor Polly, 5 votes, over a third of those cast.

 

Continuing with the Pacifics, the best name on a Peppercorn A1 today.

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I agree Red Gauntlet comes to mind. But also Balmoral and the ones named after old companies. Great Easter, Great Central and so on . Loads of great namers amongst this class. 

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The only A1 today is as Red Leader indicates, but is that actually a Peppercorn?

However, for the A1s of yesteryear I announce in a pompous arse way.......Auld Reeki. 

Can't wait for the A2s and I suspect you might guess what my choices (there are 4 variants) for that are going to be for two of them.

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22 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

The only A1 today is as Red Leader indicates, but is that actually a Peppercorn?

However, for the A1s of yesteryear I announce in a pompous arse way.......Auld Reeki. 

Can't wait for the A2s and I suspect you might guess what my choices (there are 4 variants) for that are going to be for two of them.

Yo.

Very much regarded as the 50th Peppercorn A1 - after a 50 year gap in production!

 

It's effectively the sixth one fitted with roller bearings, as per 60153-7. It has an electrical system - so did the originals. It has modern signalling / communication systems - but the originals (eventually) had AWS. It has air brakes ... well, so do many of the modern steam mainline fleet. About the only major departure from design is the all-welded steel boiler - and even that is dimensionally the same as the originals.

 

The P2, however ... (but no two of them were truly identical anyway)

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