Quote from: newportnobby on December 08, 2012, 02:17:59 PM
I look forward to seeing your new stud of steamers, Dave
Even for diehard steam lovers, there's still no reason why you can't have a favourite diesel, although I have to say the Class 55's and Class 37's are too popular IMHO.
Give me hydraulics or 8 axle jobbies any time

G'Day mike, I guess you could say I have come full circle, thankfully we emigrated to Australia in 1957 before the diesels started to appear, I have to say at that time I had never seen a diesel loco in Birmingham or Tamworth.

My memories are still of British steam looking clean and tidy, I am pleased I never seen these magnificent machines covered in filth, scale and rust, it was a very sad ending for something that served our country so well for so long.

From now on I will be modelling what I saw as a kid rather than something that might have been if we had stayed back home, my new layout will be a non exact copy of Longbridge and Northfield B'Ham in the mid 1950s which IMO was the best time of my life, no room for diesels.

Like many others I have a wee soft spot for the Hydraulics because they seem to be more
original.

My favourite is a real odd-ball, the Clayton class 17 Bo B0.  A superb design let down by a spectacularly unreliable diesel engine. I have just finished building an O gauge model of one of these from an ancient white metal kit. There is only one full-size survivor.

DELTIC DELTIC DELTIC. I once stood about 2 feet from one as it powered up and pulled out of King's Cross. I was only about 10 years old (46 years ago, oh my god) and it was an experience I will never forget.

I'm not sure if I've already posted in this thread but if the HST is allowed then it has to be that one. If not then the class 50, or maybe 55. Could even be the 33 or 73. I do like the 37's and all others with a 'nose' too, 40, 44, 45, 46. The 47's are good too along with the 56's especially if their rakes were put together by an 08 or 03. I used to like the 24's and 25's too but not the 26's or 27's. 20's were ok in pairs but we never saw those down here in Wiltshire. 31's I didn't use to rate much but I like them now. Towards the end of my spotting days seeing a 58 or 59 was always good. Anything beginning with a 6 is a no-no though I'm afraid. They're all the wrong colour for a start.

So yes, one of those above would be my favourite. Probably the HST. Or if not the 50.........................

Quote from: Trainfish on December 10, 2012, 01:27:19 AM
I'm not sure if I've already posted in this thread but if the HST is allowed then it has to be that one. If not then the class 50, or maybe 55. Could even be the 33 or 73. I do like the 37's and all others with a 'nose' too, 40, 44, 45, 46. The 47's are good too along with the 56's especially if their rakes were put together by an 08 or 03. I used to like the 24's and 25's too but not the 26's or 27's. 20's were ok in pairs but we never saw those down here in Wiltshire. 31's I didn't use to rate much but I like them now. Towards the end of my spotting days seeing a 58 or 59 was always good. Anything beginning with a 6 is a no-no though I'm afraid. They're all the wrong colour for a start.

So yes, one of those above would be my favourite. Probably the HST. Or if not the 50.........................

I am glad there is someone lose out here who is as decisive as I am

I love Warships and Hymeks cos my dad had these on our first N layout, but I never saw one in the flesh until preservation. When out spotting I was most excited by seeing a Class 24 and a 44 because they were being withdrawn at the time and were never to be seen in my Southern Region haunts. Or maybe Class 33 because I saw more of these than any other and they used to haul me down to Dorset on the Waterloo to Exeter line to see my grandparents. Or the Class 45s that took me Tom St Pancras to Sheffield or.... If pushed though it would have to be the HST like Trainfish (if allowed) - I remember going from Paddington to Bristol TM just to travel on one. 35 years later they are still going strong

Mike

Class 24/25 carnt beat the sulzer sound?? When i run my oo dcc sound loco It takes me back years
carnt aford a ngauge sound 25 ??

The sounds of those Type 2's is certainly very distinctive/metronomic

At this time of year I remember being given an Eagle annual many
years ago with colour plates and one which impressed me was an
illustration in the style of Terence de Cuneo of a Class 37 or 40 type
so that's my favourite, Not sure which!

Quote from: Agrippa on December 28, 2012, 11:23:09 PM
At this time of year I remember being given an Eagle annual many
years ago with colour plates and one which impressed me was an
illustration in the style of Terence de Cuneo of a Class 37 or 40 type
so that's my favourite, Not sure which!

I may be wrong, but I'm sure I remember a Terence Cuneo painting of a class 40 heading "The Master Cutler". I always used to look really closely for the mouse he generally put somewhere in his paintings.

Well, um, it could only be an ex-GWR railcar!!!  Coincidentally, my only diesel!   Yes, I'm a lost cause. 

Class 25.

Class 47.

I remeber recording the 25's on the postal run from Sutton Park station, idling at the sorting office siding then away. Timeless but the Westerns still have it for me.

Quote from: dch05 on December 29, 2012, 05:48:44 AM
Well, um, it could only be an ex-GWR railcar!!!  Coincidentally, my only diesel!   Yes, I'm a lost cause. 

With you on that one but only because it fits in with the period I'm endeavouring to cover, picked one up at an exhibition, runs a treat 

Has to be a class 55, on the Forth Bridge.