THE RESULTS OF THE NGF POLL

[Newportnobby]

Firstly may I say a BIG THANK YOU to those who took the time to PM me with your wishes.
We received 629 votes (bear in mind not everyone used their 6 votes, some used only one!)
Of those 629 votes - the votes were split as follows:-

Steam Locos		42%
Diesel Locos		24.5%
EMU's		14.4%
DMU's		11.3%
Electric Locos		7.8%

The most desired in each section were:-

Steam		Schools class
Diesel		Class 25 (retooled)
EMU		Pendolino
DMU		Class 105 Cravens
Electrics		Class 85

           
           

Comparisons between our Top Ten and that of the MREmag/RMweb can be found in the attached Word file, while the full listings can be found in the Excel file.

*I must add a disclaimer in that I am not the world's foremost authority on motive power over the last 100 years or so, but have listed what was voted for with some research or clarification sought.

Thanks again to everyone who voted and those who helped with this first major poll
Newport Nobby

[Tank]

A big well done to NewportNobby for spending a large amount of his personal time organising this and collating the data.  It's been a big task.

Also well done for everyone on your votes.   Hopefully this will become more popular with members, and publications and manufacturers in the future will welcome the NGF poll/survey.

Thanks to everyone.

[Karhedron]

Interesting to note the Castle at #2 in the steam list. This was spectacularly missing from the list on the RMWeb poll despite my mentioning it to them. That accounts for one discrepancy at least.

[H]

The most desired in each section were:-

Steam		Schools class
Diesel		Class 25 (retooled)
EMU		Pendolino
DMU		Class 105 Cravens
Electrics		Class 85

           

From the attached spreadsheets it looks like the class 33 was equal first with the class 25 in the diesel section.

H.

[Newportnobby]

True - but the 'headlines' were meant to keep it simple whilst being backed up with the full results list.
The Word file showing the top 10 in each section reflects the equality in votes of the 25 & 33

[Malc]

A fine job Mick. What are we going to vote on next? 

Malc

[Fratton]

A fine job Mick. What are we going to vote on next? 

Malc

maybe what vehicles (as in motor vehicles) we would like to see,,,,,,,,,,, the choice of vehicles is still shody for N then we can canvas oxford and other manufacturers see if it gives them ideas,,,

[REGP]

 Nobby I think you've done a great job, there are some interesting differences and similarities with that other poll.  Thanks

Now for the next survey......

Ray

[Pete Mc]

Doh,is anyone able to put up a rundown of the results because as I have a dead pc,I can only access the forum on my R2 unit telecommunications device(android phone) and after trying to download the files,it says file is not supported on phone and stops the download.I am only after the loco,dmu and electric results as steam and emu's aren't my bag.
Cheers in advance for this.

Pete

[Bealman]

Yes indeed, Sir. A fine job of what was no small task. I was interested to see that the Leader experimental locomotive received 4 votes.... three others out there in forumland also like weird locos!

I think your idea of road vehicles is a good one, Fratton.

Once again, Newportnobby, an excellent job. 

[tcinbg]

Thanks very much for the effort Nobby. 

Greatly appreciated by all I'm sure.

[longbridge]

Well done Mike, at the time of the poll I was still into the Yankee stuff but I find the results of your poll very interesting now I am back where I should have been 

[Mustermark]

Thanks so much !ick for all your work. I know the collating of votes was a tricky task and the results are very interesting.

The clear top few are a great insight into people's wants. Many match my own...

Top job

[Pengi]

Thanks NN for all your hard work - wading through all our votes and collating them is a huge task.

[H]

True - but the 'headlines' were meant to keep it simple whilst being backed up with the full results list.
The Word file showing the top 10 in each section reflects the equality in votes of the 25 & 33

'Joint first - class 25 and 33' would be keeping it simple.

It's not as though third place is being mentioned.

H.