pitbull1845 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I'd settle with a 67, don't mind which one as long as it works... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesey2 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If I won the Euromillions I'd build a P2 called Lord of the Isles and run it along the ECML every Saturday just for fun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40 058 Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I know they were both scrapped, and would both be totally useless these days due to the lack of suitable overhead supply, but at the very least they would be nice to look at! I would have either: Original EM1, 26000 Tommy in final BR green livery. This loco should never have been scrapped and was definatly worthy of the national collection. Or Another EM1, 76 022 in final condition, BR blue with old BR logo. This was always my favourite! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 For me, it would have to be 50050 Fearless. If only for the fact it always put a massive grin on my face when i saw it as a kid, which wasn't too often, as my earliest railway related memory is watching (the second thing on my wish list) a pair of 76's on MGR's, from my bedroom window. Happy Days! Last time I had a run behind 'Fearless' the old girl sat down at Hatfield Peveral with a blown oil cooler gasket. She dumped her oil everywhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I'd settle with a 67, don't mind which one as long as it works... Good if you're having a new fitted kitchen and need a skip to dump the old units in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6775 Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 37075 If only I had the reddies................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted February 8, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2012 50007 "Hercules" - so it would NEVER be painted green again. Yes, I was at Paddington that "dark" day... Otherwise D1051 Western Ambassador - one of my favourites and my first recorded for haulage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Green certainly on odd choice for a Hoover, especially as they were all originally banger blue, quite what green has to do with Elgar is anyones guess? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted February 9, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2012 Green certainly on odd choice for a Hoover, especially as they were all originally banger blue, quite what green has to do with Elgar is anyones guess? It was painted green, i.e pseudo GWR green, and renamed as part of the GWR150 celebrations. I have nothing against the green per se (although I prefer blue on a 50), it was the renaming I disliked. 50007 was assumed to have been chosen because the number is almost the reverse of the Castle Class 7005 which carried the same name. To rename it back to its proper name of Hercules and be authentic to its BR service, it has to lose the green too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Then there is Remembrance -LB&SCR's 4-6-4T. A unique layout and quite fast, apparently. Simon. A man after my own heart - apparently a good loco wrecked by the SR when they were rebuilt into N15Xs in the mid-30s. But then what would you do with them once their main use was superceded by electification? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1066 Electrics Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I'd electrify the East Kent Railway and build a fleet of mk1 EMU's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weaselfish Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 The Lickey Banker - Big Bertha. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D605Eagle Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 One of the biggest crimes of the 20th century on the railways in my mind was the scrapping of the three WW1 memorial locos, Patriot, Remembrace and Valour. Out of honour to those who gave their lives for us I would have them rebuilt (and the fact that all 3 were magnificent locos too) If I had anything left over then a GSWR Robert Wightlegg 4-6-4T. What a stunning loco they were. Amazingly purely by chance I bumped into Robert Wightlegg's grandson at the GCR. We were talking about the forthcoming Heljan Beyer Garrett and he told me his connection. I think he was quite suprised to learn I was a hugh Whitelegg fan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
avonside1563 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 North Stafford No.2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nzflyer Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I don't believe anyone has said a Great Western 1400 0-4-2T tank engine yet. In my opinion it is one of the nicest looking locomotives that came out of Swindon. Either that or a Terrier (with suitable rake of LBSCR four-wheelers behind) or even one of the Cambrian Railway 2-4-0 tank engines (after Swindonization). Might plan to have all three run on a future model railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Mine would be a double chimneyed Caprotti Clan running fast over a reopened Millers Dale viaduct and passing my other loco, a twin cab LNG fired 2-10-0+0-10-2 garrett based on two 9f's slogging along with a heavy aggregate train.............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 As both "Russell" and the L&BR Manning Wardles are still with us in one form or another, the FR appears to be over-run with Fairlies of various descriptions and the Penryn Ladies are thriving, the various Colorado 2-8-2 classes are in service AND on the basis that money is no object, then I would go for one if the Colorado 3' gauge 2-6-0 or 2-8-0 classes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Holy thread resurrection, Batman! Having been involved in preservation, there's no way I would want to own a loco in the real world. But in the fantasy world where it wouldn't be akin to setting fire to £50 notes, I'd have me an ATSF Alco PA-PB-PA set. In warbonnet, obviously. And a USRA 0-6-0 switcher. And an EMD E6. And... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrel Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Class 303 unrefurbished in Caledonian blue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 A Fowler 3F Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2015 It would have to be something with sufficient power for my local railway so something like a V3, B16/3 or maybe a Stanier 2-6-4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 She wasn't really scrapped, y'know - I'm keeping it in a (rather large) shed at the bottom of the garden Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grid56104 Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 my choice would be simple - 56 104 if it had not been scrapped. My most photographed grid. Max Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2015 Money no object? Black Prince 9F Common sense? J52 - the first loco to be preserved (now in the NRM) or maybe something along the lines of a J72. Somewhere in the middle? Maybe something along the lines of a Jubilee.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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