What is your favorite British Rail Diesel of all time?

[Portpatrick]

After a little thought, for me it is the Deltic.  That loco spotting trip at Kinfs Cross in 1962 again.  The sound of one starting up , with that expression of sheer power.  And having encountered them again on the ECML in their final years, the sound of one in full flight........

[mrjamestrain]

class 73 fair enough  its a electro diesel

[Newportnobby]

class 73 fair enough  its a electro diesel

Good to see your first post   Welcome. Don't worry about electro diesels - plenty here like them too (Too late for me, though)

[EtchedPixels]

class 73 fair enough  its a electro diesel

More like a lawnmower on bogies

Alan

[mrjamestrain]

newportnobby thanks i really fell in love with these locos when they went past my old house with the gatwick express and yes when running on diesel engin they do sound a little bit like a lawnmower but moved to the midlands  never scene one again  just got to build a layout to model a slice of the gatwick express and dutch yum

[Tank]

73's are a favourite of mine too.  I always saw them around this way (Brighton Line), especially hauling the Gatwick Express or broken down EMU's.

[Calnefoxile]

For me got to be Deltics!!! I remember standing on Peterborough station looking down the line and feeling a Deltic approach, before actually seeing it. Then as it roared through the centre lines, the Platform shaking like an earthquake had hit, and my chest cavity vibrating with the bass sound of the Napiers. Actual loco is Deltic 6 "The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry", I don't know exactly why, maybe because of the way the name trips of the tongue.

Closely followed by Peaks, being a Leicester lad these were my staple diet in the 70's through Leicester station before HST's replaced them. Being from Leicester we got to see a lot of the 'new' loco's, 56's, 58's etc. as they were being tested by Derby RTC on the MGR's through to Coalville and Burton.

Ahhhh now where are those rose tinted glasses of mine   

Regards

Neal.

[mike170]

My favorite diesel is the HST(class 43). Ive been a rail enthusiast since i was a child. Since about age 25 you would struggle to find me at home at weekends when not working, i would most likely be travelling on a hst somewhere in the country, quite often found on the overnight boat train to fishguard harbour on a saturday night before great western pulled out of the port.

Over the last year i decided to get back into N gauge modeling after seeing so much more now out for the modern image modeler since i last had models about 10 years ago.
I have now managed to get hold of almost all the models of the HST that have been released, just now trying to get all the coaches to go with them, im getting there bit by bit to form full rakes for all of them.

[Griffo]

My favorite diesel is the HST(class 43). Ive been a rail enthusiast since i was a child. Since about age 25 you would struggle to find me at home at weekends when not working, i would most likely be travelling on a hst somewhere in the country, quite often found on the overnight boat train to fishguard harbour on a saturday night before great western pulled out of the port.

Over the last year i decided to get back into N gauge modeling after seeing so much more now out for the modern image modeler since i last had models about 10 years ago.
I have now managed to get hold of almost all the models of the HST that have been released, just now trying to get all the coaches to go with them, im getting there bit by bit to form full rakes for all of them.

Ahh, a man on a mission! I'm intending a full fleet of Westerns. However SHMBO was heard to utter after the eighth ...... "How many of the bloody things are there then?"

I'm currently hiding all the relevant books and blacklisting any websites ...... my middle name should have been Nostradamus 'cos I've a good idea how this is going to end. Perhaps I can tell her I've seen the error of my ways and I'm going for Hymeks instead.....

[Newportnobby]

My favorite diesel is the HST(class 43). Ive been a rail enthusiast since i was a child. Since about age 25 you would struggle to find me at home at weekends when not working, i would most likely be travelling on a hst somewhere in the country, quite often found on the overnight boat train to fishguard harbour on a saturday night before great western pulled out of the port.

Over the last year i decided to get back into N gauge modeling after seeing so much more now out for the modern image modeler since i last had models about 10 years ago.
I have now managed to get hold of almost all the models of the HST that have been released, just now trying to get all the coaches to go with them, im getting there bit by bit to form full rakes for all of them.

Only one problem there, Griffo. There were more Hymeks than Westerns You're toast


Ahh, a man on a mission! I'm intending a full fleet of Westerns. However SHMBO was heard to utter after the eighth ...... "How many of the bloody things are there then?"

I'm currently hiding all the relevant books and blacklisting any websites ...... my middle name should have been Nostradamus 'cos I've a good idea how this is going to end. Perhaps I can tell her I've seen the error of my ways and I'm going for Hymeks instead.....

[Griffo]

I know there was 101 Hymeks ("copped" them all back in the day) and so do you. But she doesn't. Yet.

It's all part of her education!

[Donkey]

It just has to be a Deltic. Many a happy day spent on Northallerton station watching them thunder by at full speed!
Oh happy days 

[4x2]

Westerns rule ! I now have video evidence... as filmed by me at the 2010 WSR Diesel gala 

(I knew i'd find it eventually...  )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7TEAs0uGlY&feature=player_detailpage

[Jimbob]

For me it's the classic Blue/yellow Intercity 125 - that was the train that really got me interested when U I was a kid and I've just bought one for my layout too (see my post in the videos section for footage of it)

In terms of a single unit, I do like the 37s too

[Newportnobby]

Westerns rule ! I now have video evidence... as filmed by me at the 2010 WSR Diesel gala 

(I knew i'd find it eventually...  )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7TEAs0uGlY&feature=player_detailpage

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