BR Blue Diesels

[andy400]

Personally, whilst I like steam engines, I have a real nostalgia for the days of BR 'corporate' blue, and all the diesel classes that used to operate back in the late 70s/early 80s when I was but a small boy and loved seeing trains.

Here is a Class 25, which I've always had a soft spot for:

[DieselGriff]

Have to agree, again I was small boy during this era and I'm sure it ingrains something in your brain. Personal favourite was the class 37.

[58warren]

Can't beat the sight and sound of a class 55 (Deltic) 2 x 18 cylinder 'gunboat' delta engines totalling 3600hp!

On a related rail topic, I've noticed that 'Tornado', the newly built steam loco that appeared on the Top Gear race from London to Edinburgh seems to live at Hither Green depot in south-east London. It's parked up there most mornings when I pass on the way to work.

[baldy1926]

You need to get to Mid Norfolk Railway.They have a full rake of blue carriages
http://www.mnr.org.uk/

[andy400]

DieselGriff said:

Have to agree, again I was small boy during this era and I'm sure it ingrains something in your brain. Personal favourite was the class 37.

37s, oh yes!

Also 08, 20, 40, 45, 47 - all blue types that got me excited as a small boy!

[mrmaggit]

58warren said:

Can't beat the sight and sound of a class 55 (Deltic) 2 x 18 cylinder 'gunboat' delta engines totalling 3600hp!

On a related rail topic, I've noticed that 'Tornado', the newly built steam loco that appeared on the Top Gear race from London to Edinburgh seems to live at Hither Green depot in south-east London. It's parked up there most mornings when I pass on the way to work.

It has a lot of London Specials booked for the next few weeks. www.steaminfo.co.uk

[mrmaggit]

andy400 said:

DieselGriff said:

Have to agree, again I was small boy during this era and I'm sure it ingrains something in your brain. Personal favourite was the class 37.

37s, oh yes!

Also 08, 20, 40, 45, 47 - all blue types that got me excited as a small boy!

Never did like the 37's, maybe because we very rarely saw them around Nottingham. Westerns, though.......

I'm so glad my personal favourite, D1048 Western Lady survives. She was the very first main line loco I ever got to go in the cab of, at Cardiff Station.

[aeropilot]

mrmaggit said:

Westerns, though.......

+1

I can remember a trip to relatives in Torquay around 1973 from Paddington with a Class 52 Western loco driven BR train, and then used to see them regularily for the next few years along the old GWR route as my school was only a few hundred yards from the GWR line through Ealing. A few of us often used to walk dowm to the line and sit and eat our packed lunches, talking and watching the trains. Seems an odd thing to do now, but seemed perfectly normal thing to do as schoolboys 35 odd years ago

Edited by aeropilot on Monday 30th November 18:40