For me there is only one loco out in front. The Class 45s - these have to be the most understated loco out there. They worked every where, were popular with train crews and sounded superb at full throttle.

Oh how I miss those summer weekends travelling to the west country behind  a peak.

Class 43 and Gronks for me....

Really happy we in the N gauge world have an 08 with outside frames now :-)

 

Nuff said...

It's another vote for the Cromptons (class 33s).

H.

In my green diesel 'armoury' I now have 2 Whistlers and 3 Peaks (I just love 8 axles), 3 x 47's and 3 x Hymeks.
Everything else seems to be in pairs

Its got to be the class 50`s  .

For me it was everything in the late 70's early 80's.
Action everywhere.
The good days.

I have no idea why I'm modelling the present day?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can't beat a 37, I can hear those con rods now. I say you can't beat it but you can equal it, Class 43 HST with Valenta engines and screaming turbos!! Music!

I'm off to Youtube for a Clag fix!!

Jack

 Thats a good idea, I'm off to you tube for a class 58-class 60 fix.

Funnily enough I'm on a train now. It's a class 170 but I can't see anything out the window cos it's dark!
Will be in Nuneaton soon so if I'm lucky I might spot some freight moving through the station !

My favorite diesel has to be the class 55 deltic, then i would say the westener.

Ahh, very easy for myself, it has to be the Deltics especially in its prototype colours followed closely by class 42 Warships

Given my love of all things LMS, it has to be the Gronk, since it is essentially a minor evolution of the LMS design that later became Class 11. I'd go for the 08 rather than the 11 because they were everywhere.

I've made a concession that the odd Farish LMS '08' 7130, which never existed, is allowed in my loco shed, but I'll probably renumber it 712x which would give it an original Class 11 number. If Rails of Sheffield would produce the LMS twins in N gauge rather than just 00, they'd be welcome too.

For me, it has to be the Class 55 Deltic (I grew up near to the ECML and was old enough to catch their last days of service). The HSTs have always seemed to be a rather bland replacement. 37s are also a fave, particularly when they worked the expresses from Cambridge with steam heat!

Quote from: captainelectra on June 24, 2012, 10:49:08 AM
For me, ...... 37s are also a fave, particularly when they worked the expresses from Cambridge with steam heat!

That was when they worked out of Liverpool Street.
There is (today) a pub called the magpie in New St EC2 that in the 70's early 80's was a real (ale) and a railwayman's pub. The landlady (of an age ) had 2 relatives who tended bar. One was Jack (Cutmore I think) and his speciality as a train driver was to work the 16:40 class 37 hauled service to Bury St Edmunds service, this enabled him to tend the morning opening hours (pubs in London closed at 3) and return in time for last orders !. I also remember class 37's on frequent occassions hitting the buffers on platform 10 with Harwich Boat trains..don't know why could have been a turn for the second men who today knows ?

I agree with tyhe Captain. I lived in Hartlepool, but my cousins lived in Darlington, so I spent a lot of time at Top Bank Station, waiting for the Deltics on the ECML. Class 37 is a near thing as well. I also have a soft spot for the Class 4's and 8's.