11B Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Wow.. 1st and 2nd class cabs!!!! Nice photos Wild Boar Fell. Kind regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 68004 is named Rapid. Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 This is the best picture I've seen yet of the whole move taken by Mike Sargent.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_sargent/13893457944/ Jack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ngtrains.com Posted April 16, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 16, 2014 Apologies if I have missed this in this now quite long thread..... But what's wrong with the alternators? Not looking to knock or anything, just interested in the engineering as at least 68001 and 68002 have had their engines/alternators out for attention to the alternator due to a problem identified test running 68001. That's what testing is for. I am just interested as an electrical engineer. Perhaps it got dizzy going round and round the test track Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 16, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2014 There does seem to be a theme amongst the Class 68 names, but can anyone spot the deliberate mistake of the four so far? Intrepid, Astute, Rapid, Defiant Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 There does seem to be a theme amongst the Class 68 names, but can anyone spot the deliberate mistake of the four so far? Intrepid, Astute, Rapid, Defiant Cheers, Mick Only one is damned! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 16, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2014 Only one is damned! And therein lies the mistake............ Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 And therein lies the mistake............ Cheers, Mick What............??????????????????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2014 What............??????????????????? HMS Defiant is a fictional vessel. HMS Defiance however........ Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Maybe it's not warships then, but attributes ? . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2014 Have they got it wrong with Defiant ? I can't trace anything about an RN ship of that name (other than a fictional one) so should the loco be named 'Defiance'? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Have they got it wrong with Defiant ? I can't trace anything about an RN ship of that name (other than a fictional one) so should the loco be named 'Defiance'? Mike, Quite correct. The only known HMS DEFIANT was the fictional version in the Alec Guiness/Dirk Bogarde film, there has never been a vessel of that name in the RN. The most recent DEFIANCE was a shore establishment in Devonport. If this was a mistake, it's up there with a pub in Blyth which recently renamed itself "Arc Royal" (!) with a motif of the 1937 aircraft carrier thinking it had been built in Blyth. The actual vessel concerned was a seaplane carrier built in Blyth in 1914! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpion Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 USS Defiant NX-74205, maybe there not all RN vessels Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 The 68,s look good but I prefer the 37 in the photo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adam1701D Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2014 USS Defiant NX-74205, maybe there not all RN vessels That's a tough little ship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpion Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Enterprise, there's another good name, didn't the WR have one once Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Enterprise, there's another good name, didn't the WR have one once Yes - and the starship was named after it. (And the space shuttle after that.) Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Beam me up Scotty !!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 So what was this HMS DEFIANT ??? http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/HMS_Defiant Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyewipe Jct Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 So what was this HMS DEFIANT ??? http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/HMS_Defiant As it says in the accompanying text (& as mentioned above) "there never was an HMS Defiant serving in the Royal Navy in real life. A fictional Defiant was seen in the 1962 movie 'Damn The Defiant!' (based on the Frank Tilsey novel 'Mutiny')". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Defiant. Exactly what that's a painting of in the article, who knows? :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 As it says in the accompanying text (& as mentioned above) "there never was an HMS Defiant serving in the Royal Navy in real life. A fictional Defiant was seen in the 1962 movie 'Damn The Defiant!' (based on the Frank Tilsey novel 'Mutiny')". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Defiant. Exactly what that's a painting of in the article, who knows? Yes, I read the text where it says there never was an HMS Defiant........so what is the painting all about.?????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Yes, I read the text where it says there never was an HMS Defiant........so what is the painting all about.?????? Merely fiction in an attempt to pass credence to a Star Trek script. Looking at the 'painting' itself, the ship portrayed is fictional as the size of the sails depicted would be unmanageable bordering on the suicidal! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Merely fiction in an attempt to pass credence to a Star Trek script. Looking at the 'painting' itself, the ship portrayed is fictional as the size of the sails depicted would be unmanageable bordering on the suicidal! Thanks Jim...............!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 DRS CLASS 68, 68003 "ASTUTE" by philipbparker, on Flickr FLOATING CRANE LARA 1 by philipbparker, on Flickr DRS CLASS 68, 68003 by philipbparker, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2014 all that just to get to the tank mounted rear light on/off switch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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