Morris Minor Owners Club

Well - it is indeed a Scottish based locomotive !

I understood it resided in the NRM at York.

Was certainly Doncaster built.

Ill swop it for my convertable

jagnut66 wrote:Out of interest is Mallard still in working order or is she just a static exhibit these days?

I believe Mallard is in York, but I dont know of any plans to run her next year, finger crossed though.
Two for one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8n3Dq2Rzc
And the flying scotsman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7318.shtml

Mallard. Always Mallard


Much better than this monstrosity I have to travel on from Derby to Uttoxeter when I go to Alton Towers (which is a lot)

I love all steam trains but also get nostalgic about the train of my childhood - the 303 class "blue train" in Glasgow and surrounding area. Some features:

Glass partition between passenger compartment and driver's cab - you could see where you were going as well as watch the driver - until he pulled the blinds down!

Hydraulic (I think) sliding doors - modern in theory but very clunky and often unreliable.

Mosaic interior panels at carriage ends and gangways - either grey or yellow triangles of various shades

Horizontally striped brown and gold (if memory serves) velour-type seats

Very audible acceleration from the motors (which I believe sometimes used to catch fire). As a musician I can tell you that the "engine note" used to reach a healthy top E-flat

Later, the trafalgar blue (nearly) livery became a combination of blue and grey before, sacrilege of high proportions, everything became a hideous orange as unification of the "Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive". Similar livery vandalism took place on the buses, but that's another story...

JPX877J - Lincoln St Marks station unless I'm very much mistaken??? Oh how we all love the fact that the barriers are down for a total of about 40 minutes every hour snarling up the whole High Street and the only road access from the top of town to the bottom!! Those town planners did a bang up job when they closed the other station AND pulled up the Lincoln avoiding line!!

I just pulled the pic of the tinterweb.

They are horrid trains at 6 in the morning (I catch an East Midlands Class 222 from Sheffield to Derby at half 5 then that box which is the 'uttoxbox' from Derby to Uttoxeter then the Alton Towers Transport bus from Uttoxeter to Alton Towers and arrive at about 8am) and when mine was an hour late it was -10 on Derby station (last feb half term)

Aah yes - have spent many a cold hour standing on Sheffield station waiting for a similar train to whisk me slowly back to the flatlands of Lincolnshire via every small and out of the way station imagineable between both cities!! How can it take you longer by train than it does to walk???

Mallard. Always Mallard

I have a soft spot for LMS Black 5's too.................. and the Great Western made some excellent locomotives......

Enough of the kettles! Now enjoy the majestic sight of a Deltic..

Fabulous

Industrial railways do it for me!
A very worthwhile day out is to the Alan Keef Open Day which is held in September at his railway workshops at Lea Line on the A40 between Gloucester and Ross on Wye.
See http://www.alankeef.co.uk/open_day.html for details. Alan Keef open days covering several years can be viewed on 'You Tube'. I have visited this location on several occasions and have never left disapointed. People come from all over the UK and I do mean from all over the UK.

At the end of the day, whatever your choice of train (steam or original diesel - Deltic), the railway network in this country was much better served pre Beeching.
It's a shame he wasn't hit by a train on the way to making his report!..............

In my opinion they only changed from steam to diesel so they could save on labour costs - they could sack all the firemen straight away! Steam engines always required more intensive maintenance. At the time the cost of diesel over coal was negligible.

Whilst your Deltic is a fine engine in it's own right, I wish more of the great steam locomotives had survived, too many simply became extinct.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine invited me up to Darlington to a museum where a group were fixing up a class 57 loco. It was a freezing cold day and they started it up, the locos are designed to run all day none stop and have no pre heaters on the glo plugs. This thing started from cold not on all cylinders, we were stood at the side of it and it was spewing unburnt diesel from the exausts and sounded like a bag of spanners, then as it warmed up it was fireing on all cylinders and sounded great. I think the engine was built by GEC. The engine pic was taken from the cab end of the train.

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I heard that BR used to leave them ticking over all night. Some saving in fuel, eh?

This one:



First steamed 2 years ago...

But I do like double Fairlies



and NG16s,


K1 is quite interesting too.



and of course the one I am working on (NG15 134)

JOWETTJAVELIN wrote:Don't want to be pedantic but a train is made up of locomotive and rolling stock. An engine on its own is simply that or more correctly a locomotive.

Quite right, I must be as pedantic as you because I felt the overwhelming urge to correct the title

without a word to the original poster