What is your favorite British Rail Diesel of all time?

[Irish Padre]

Anything from the English Electric family; the noise of 37s and 20s especially is very reminiscent of the EE-engined DEMUs of my youth in Ireland: some power units in use there are now 45 years old!!

[Griffo]

Can't beat a Hymek blasting through Cardiff General.

[grumbeast]

Cardiff General!,, wow haven't heard it called that for years!, and unfortunately Hymeks are a little early for my time at Cardiff.  A pair of 37s squeeling down the grade from Queen Street with a long MGR train was more my time, or even a pair of 56s on the iron ore train...

Graham

[Griffo]

Cardiff General!,, wow haven't heard it called that for years!, and unfortunately Hymeks are a little early for my time at Cardiff.  A pair of 37s squeeling down the grade from Queen Street with a long MGR train was more my time, or even a pair of 56s on the iron ore train...

Graham

Diesel electric interlopers (although I could just about cope with a pair of Ingys - 37s to you!). Hydraulic transmissions and big Maybachs, that's the stuff of dreams .....

Mind you, the doctor has some concerns about me .......

[cupoftea]

Cardiff General!,, wow haven't heard it called that for years!, and unfortunately Hymeks are a little early for my time at Cardiff.  A pair of 37s squeeling down the grade from Queen Street with a long MGR train was more my time, or even a pair of 56s on the iron ore train...

Graham

You guys make me feel really old! I can remember steam locos in my early years! Oh the sound and smell!

[EtchedPixels]

Definitely Westerns in my case. The last gasp of taste and style before British Rail Swindon was turned into part of the blue soulless blob.

Fortunately the style lives on both preserved and because elements of it were reborn in the class 66 front end.

[Adam1701D]

I've developed a real soft-spot for the humble Class 14, since seeing them in action on the Nene Valley. Not only do they sound great, they don't half shift!

[grumbeast]

14s are kinda cute, they remind me of something a little more European than most British classes though.

[lesmond]

Has to be a 31 for me, although I've a really soft spot for the NIR 80 class DMU, having used them to get to work (or not) for a few years.

[Griffo]

I can remember 14s as station pilots around Cardiff General around 1966 - 67. Then parked up at the back of Canton shed. I, too, always had a soft spot for them.

Only got three of them so far .....

(Doctor, I need some more of that pretty pink medicine ....)

[longbridge]

Cardiff General!,, wow haven't heard it called that for years!, and unfortunately Hymeks are a little early for my time at Cardiff.  A pair of 37s squeeling down the grade from Queen Street with a long MGR train was more my time, or even a pair of 56s on the iron ore train...

Graham

You guys make me feel really old! I can remember steam locos in my early years! Oh the sound and smell!

Me to Cupoftea, I remember little Pannier Tanks at Cardiff in the 1950s, always had a sticky when we had holidays in Wales.

[NTrain]

I have always had a soft spot for the Hymek

[cookiescrumble]

My favourite has to be the class 60, takes 2 of those boring American things to match one of these   

and closely followed by the class 47, no idea why though  . Just something about them.

[SymonC]

I'm with Zwilnik on this one.  The length of service alone shows us that the 08 is the best.    It was also the only train I could afford at 15 years old, which was handy!

I'll vote for the 08 as well. Can it be converted to steam?

[Chris]

Definitely class 37 for me. There's nothing like the sound of a 37 at full chat!

I do like the 60s and 56s though. Shame there aren't more of them about nowadays.