RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 15, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2021 Gateshead A2 Velocity has backed down from New England, and is now simmering in number 4 bay. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 3 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Somebody that knows stuff could compare them for us so we understand the 'differences'. P Ahem ... you called? What d'yer wanna know? The key visual difference between rebuilt Scots and Patriots was the cab style. The Scots retained their original Fowler style cab but the Patriots got newer style Stanier cabs. The two rebuilt Jubs thus looked similar to the rebuilt Patriots BUT I've recently learnt that the cab side sheets lengths were different(!) For the other 189, the principal variations were two different boiler / firebox styles (straight throatplate and sloping throatplate) and four different tender types .... Oh, where's everyone gone? 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2021 Jutland. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 20 hours ago, great northern said: But strong antipodean influence resulted in New South Wales with 3 votes as the winner, four others with 2. 3 things we're good at. Fixing cricket, fixing rum and fixing polls 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon4470 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 So many good names to chose from...... In the end I vote for Bellerophon.......not sure that is spelt correctly, which is why the navy also called her Billy Ruffian! Jon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 16, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2021 Another Leicester stopper has paused at Platform 6, a Spital Bridge B1 in front this time. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 44 minutes ago, great northern said: Another Leicester stopper has paused at Platform 6, a Spital Bridge B1 in front this time. ... and another B1 Great! Love it! Just exactly as it would have been ... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 16, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 Easy winner of this poll, very unexpected, to me at least. Shovell with 5 votes, nothing else even close. Patriots today chaps. The whole class as there were only 50 odd. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2021 Illustrious. My father served on the aircraft carrier of that name in WW2. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Illustrious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 I'm going to crave our Pollmeister's indulgence and nominate two - 45536 and 45537. It would be iniquitous to choose one over the other. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 Hi Gilbert Does this poll include rebuilt ones as well cos my choice was named after being rebuilt. R.E.M.E. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 16, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Gilbert Does this poll include rebuilt ones as well cos my choice was named after being rebuilt. R.E.M.E. Yes, the whole class throughout their lives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: I'm going to crave our Pollmeister's indulgence and nominate two - 45536 and 45537. It would be iniquitous to choose one over the other. And, obviously, you are keeping your reasons Private..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Duke of Sutherland, only because of where I am Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 (edited) I was tempted to mention one of the two true 'patriots' ie volunteer railwaymen who became WWI heros, so I'll go along with our antipodean friend. Half a point each? To give them their full credit: 45536 Private W Wood VC Wilfred Wood was an engine cleaner at Stockport Edgeley shed at Stockport. Towards the end of 1916 he joined the Cheshire Regiment as a stretcher-bearer, later transferring to the 10th Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers. His VC reads: “…on 28 October 1918 near Casa Vana, Italy, when the advance was being held up by hostile machine-guns and snipers, Private Wood on his own initiative worked forward with his Lewis gun, enfiladed the enemy machine-gun nest and caused 140 men to surrender”. There's a plaque on Stockport station these days commemorating his life. 45537 Private E. Sykes V.C. Ernest Sykes was a platelayer for the L&NWR at Micklehurst. When War was declared, Sykes joined as a volunteer with the 7th Battalion The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. After being injured at Gallipoli, he recovered and went on to serve in the Tyneside Irish Brigade of the 27th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. His VC citation reads: “For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty near Arras, France, on 9th April 1917, when his battalion in attack was held up about 350 yards in advance of our lines by intense fire from front and flank, and suffered heavy casualties. Private Sykes, despite this heavy fire, went forward and brought back four wounded men. He made a fifth journey and remained out under conditions which appeared to be certain death, until he had bandaged all those who were too badly wounded to be moved. These gallant actions, performed under incessant machine-gun and rifle-fire, showed utter contempt of danger”. After the war he returned to work for the L&NWR who named a ‘Claughton’ class locomotive after him in 1922. Edited January 16, 2021 by LNER4479 8 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 A vote for 45519 Lady Godiva here... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Taz Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2021 Would 5551 The Unknown Warrior be eligible for this poll? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 16, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 16 minutes ago, Taz said: Would 5551 The Unknown Warrior be eligible for this poll? I think not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Again a few to choose from. Reme and Illustrious are both contenders, and the two Privates referred to before are both are both strong contenders, But I will go for Bunsen. I am sure plenty of fireman would have been please to see some large Bunsen burners, with an appropriate gas supply, in their firebox! Worst name, surely Giggleswick. Apologies to the inhabitants, but difficult to take it seriously. Lloyd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 I will choose Illustrious also. A famous warship name, I wonder why it was given to a Patriot when other warship names were bestowed on Jubilees? Was it a former Claughton name? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 Lady Godiva; saw that and two others at Bristol Temple Meads, middle of the night whilst travelling from Plymuff to Newcastle on the overnight 'Mail' (took about 12 hours) in 1961 or 62 I think it was. I found out only in the last few years that these Engines were used on night Parcels/Goods from Brizzle to wherever. All three were 82E. I wish I had been allowed to check out the loco changes en route. Hey Ho. I suppose one might have taken our train? P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 5511 of course - Isle of Man - back to tribalism! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Lady Godiva. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 G'Day Folks Lady Godiva. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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