Your favourite English Electric Diesel?

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:24 am

Its close but it's got to be a 20 for me.

With class 55, 40, 37, 31, 08 sharing 2nd place and the rest in 3rd

phill70 · Post by **phill70** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:25 pm

Class 73's, because they can go just about anywhere, duel powered as well, very usefull these days.

Close second, 08/09 because they are just about the most usefull little locos ever built.

carlwestwood · Post by **carlwestwood** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:27 pm

i have to say 37s cuz .. well i dont know... but i have my reasons

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:09 am

hehe, Class 31s all the way

with 37s running a close second

Whitemoor · Post by **Whitemoor** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:08 am

argh, love em all, except the thumper and 73....if i had to pick a star, probaly the 37, no wait, the 31............or maybe the 20......nah 37, or not........argh i dont know!!

Anonymizeruk · Post by **Anonymizeruk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:52 am

Whitemoor wrote:argh, love em all, except the thumper and 73....if i had to pick a star, probaly the 37, no wait, the 31............or maybe the 20......nah 37, or not........argh i dont know!!

You just dont like anything that picks up a current do you?

steveenefer · Post by **steveenefer** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:20 am

Class 50 for me

big noisy and fast

all the things i loved as a kid (all them years ago)

arabiandisco · Post by **arabiandisco** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 am

Anonymizeruk wrote:
Whitemoor wrote:argh, love em all, except the thumper and 73....if i had to pick a star, probaly the 37, no wait, the 31............or maybe the 20......nah 37, or not........argh i dont know!!
You just dont like anything that picks up a current do you?

The thumper doesn't pick up a current...

My vote would go to 10203, but that isn't on the list, so a 50 will have to do.

Whitemoor · Post by **Whitemoor** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:42 pm

Anonymizeruk wrote:
Whitemoor wrote:argh, love em all, except the thumper and 73....if i had to pick a star, probaly the 37, no wait, the 31............or maybe the 20......nah 37, or not........argh i dont know!!
You just dont like anything that picks up a current do you?

yes i like the 92s!!! (only cos they look like 60s)

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:52 pm

Now If Your talking of all time Favs I'd say the Class 47 ( Diesel's Black 5) Everytime

alexnick · Post by **alexnick** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:13 pm

I voted 73s, but that's because I like electric traction! But I do always see the 73s as electrics, not diesels.

Nick

NiallGray · Post by **NiallGray** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:14 pm

Could never pick any of them... the peaks were the only diesels for me.

Whitemoor · Post by **Whitemoor** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:55 am

talking of peaks, whats happening with fragonsets (FMRail)`s peak??

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:32 am

NiallGray wrote:Could never pick any of them... the peaks were the only diesels for me.

Some of us never got to see Peaks in action when we were kids

To some extent it matters not what manufacturer and which power plant they had, they're still not steamers. On that basis, I'll take anything in original BR green livery, but it's still a 31 on top with a 47, I suppose as backup.

Shoulda painted 'em Royal Blue anyway

Ghostcav · Post by **Ghostcav** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:41 pm

Tough call.

I do love 50's but........
37's rock as well.......
although 40's were just beasty......
& of course the old 08/09 ,that go's without saying.sadly getting less & less...

Hmmm

Not 31's though,although I like them they just used to annoy me when I was trying to signal them years ago.Half of them wouldnt pull skin off a rice pudding & trying to regulate a path for them required skills & even more luck.

So I'm gonna have to say 20's (in a pair of course),good memories of those at my first signal box hauling coal.

Although if it was all diesels rather than just EE stuff it would be more like this.
-Class 47
-Class 56
-Class 20.

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Your favourite English Electric Diesel?

What's your favourite English Electric Diesel?