The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ooh- here she is!

View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00xZsYZYnQ

Oh dear G.... a class 153? A 'Tin Rocket'? A 'Fart Car'? To be fair, they are probably ok really.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If at Ipswich, I always preferred the '312s on the Harwich line!

 

[Glow worm]

Oh dear G.... a class 153? A 'Tin Rocket'? A 'Fart Car'? To be fair, they are probably ok really.

Yes - more of a bus on rails really, though oddly enough, some of the best cycle storage facilities I have come across! That's the nice thing about Delia- somewhere to park your bike!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That's the nice thing about Delia- somewhere to park your bike!

Yes our local trains are EMUs like the class 320 (similar to the '321s down there), but all you have is the doors, which is crap. There are however the West Highland class 156s, those aren't too bad.

 

[Arch]

1066

Stamford Bridge, Fulford and Hastings.

Or, alternatively, the binstore entry codes for at least two York apartment blocks, but if I told you, I'd have to kill you.

 

[Speicher]

The very first time I ever went to a station to see a train (for the sole reason of seeing a train) Western Rifleman went through on a train to Bristol I've not looked back since - my other hobby is being a Signalman (@ Highley SVR).

Gordon, the real one, is No 600

I used to be a volunteer selling tickets at Severn Valley Railway. Started off at Bewdley then moved to Kidderminster Station.
I also started the training as a Travelling Ticket Inspector. For several reasons, my training as a TTTI came to a halt, not least because of a change in my employment.

I very nearly bought a house where the back garden was next to the signal as you approach Bewdley from Kidderminster. Lovely location, but the house needed too much work doing to it.

 

[classic33]

Let's do it the other way:

Gordon the Blue Engine

R383

 

[robjh]

Yes - more of a bus on rails really, though oddly enough, some of the best cycle storage facilities I have come across! That's the nice thing about Delia- somewhere to park your bike!

Saw 4 bikes being loaded into a 153 at Coventry the other day, on an evening commuter run to Nuneaton. That's a pretty good bike-to-passenger ratio for a 1-coach train.

If we're going to talk about rubbish bike storage on trains then my vote goes to the 158.

 

[classic33]

The '021 looks to be the odd one out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rodney_(29)
Not that odd when you look at the names of what they started naming the class after.

MDB 149

 

[Martyn H]

Another former Severn Valley railway volunteer here - so this is where we all ended up. I used to work at Highley in the late 1970's, early 80's. Helped restore Highley Signal Box for it's 100th anniversary in 1982. There is a Best Kept Station plaque in the waiting room there. We went down (or up in railway parlance) to collect the award from Sir Pete Parker.

I also helped out with the restoration of the preserved Westerns at Bridgnorth. I was just too late to see many of them in BR service.

 

[Hover Fly]

Ok, so with want of nothing better to do, here are the class 50s completely off the top of my head:

D400/50050 Fearless
50001 Dreadnought
50002 Superb
50003 Temeraire
50004 St Vincent
50005 Collingwood
50006 Neptune
50007 Hercules (later Sir Edward Elgar)
'008 Thunderer
'009 Conqurerer
'010 Monarch
'011 Centurion (see 50040 )
'012 Benbow
'013 Agincourt
'014 Warspite
'015 Valiant
'016 Barnham
'017 Royal Oak
'018 Resolution
'019 Ramilies
'020 Revenge
'021 Rodney
'022 Anson
'023 Howe
'024 Vanguard
'025 Invincible
'026 Indomitable
'027 Lion
'028 Tiger
'029 Renown
'030 Repulse
'031 Hood
'032 Courageous
'033 Glorious
'034 Furious
'035 Ark Royal
'036 Victorious
'037 Illustrious
'038 Formidable
'039 Implacable
'040 Leviathan
'041 Bulwark
'042 Triumph
'043 Eagle
'044 Exeter
'045 Achillies
'046 Ajax
'047 Swiftsure
'048 Dauntless
'049 Defiance

..... And me being anti war too!

The only plate that belongs on a class 50 bodyside is an oval one stating "This locomotive is on hire from English Electric (leasings) Ltd."

 

[Hover Fly]

The real sad part is that as a northerner I didn't get to see many 50's but knew Fearless was 50,050 (and google confirmed my sadness!)

Proper northerners could get haulage by them all in a couple of (well-spaced, for instance, Easter and half term) weeks. That was before that mob down south filched them all.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I'd like to admit to being a former SVR volunteer too. Engine cleaner at Bridgnorth shed as soon as I was old enough.

If I'd carried on with it I could've been a driver by now. Oh well.

 

[subaqua]

Percy # 5
Gordon # 4
Henry # 3
Toby # 7

you like me have an unfair advantage due to the age of our kids

 

[subaqua]

member of Avon Valley Railway. Have done the B driving course- Steam loco and brake van . I like my steam because of the engineering involved but if i got involved volunteering it would be for the signalling and work on the permanent way.