What was the first train you went on??

[phill70]

Basingstoke to Waterloo, and return, around 1966/7

Up, a brand new diesel, no idea that it was, apart from it was green
Down, a steamer of some sort.

[pjt1974]

Beyer Peacock 'Hutchinson' from Douglas to Castetown in 1979 (millenium celebrations)

[67025]

Enough said -

[craigy]

It was either a Western or Class 47 as i was going to devon for my holidays in the early 70's, but its been that long ago i cant remember, as for steam never, i dont do steam

[wolly1380]

It was ether a class 507 or 508 about 4 years old back in the 80's I hated it as with the windows oped in the tunnels it was loud we were all going to southport and I loved going there as a kid but hated the train, now I can't get enough of them.

[tialho]

Almot certainly a Warship from Paddington-Hereford at Christmas 1969 - I was 15 months old at the time so don't remember much about it! By the time I was old enough to notice, the Warships had been replaced by 47s with the odd Hymek if you were lucky.Other early memories are the Shenfield electrics (Class 306) - we lived in Stratford at the time and would sometimes catch one into London instead of the tube.

Tim

[ashgray]

Probably a Patriot hauling the Birmingham New Street to Newcastle on Tyne service back in 1961. The first one I remember vividly was around 5 years later, when on a service that had just pulled out of Paddington headed to Birmingham, with the carriage windows wide open, being passed by another service hauled by Warship D816 Eclipse - I'll never forget that sound of Maybachs on full bore!

Ash

[Crimpsal]

As far as I remember, it was the 'Hook Continental', Liverpool Street - Harwich Parkstone Quay in 1957.
The loco would most likely been one of the 'Britannia' class.
I must have travelled by rail before this, but would only have been 6 - 12 months old at the time, as we
moved from Yorkshire down to London. (was born 1953).

[gswindale]

I've really got no idea - it could have been on a preserved line when I was a toddler (or younger). The first I can remember is a DMU from Lichfield City on a trip down to Stratford-Upon-Avon in the early-mid 80s. I remember we had seats behind the cab and so could see where we were going and watch the signals etc.

[oldrocker]

I remember we had seats behind the cab and so could see where we were going and watch the signals etc.

I do miss that !

Wouldn't it be great to be on, say, a 350 from Wolverhampton to Liverpool with that view?

[jordieDAFC]

i think my first train was a scot rail class 156 from dalgety bay to edinburgh.


Jordie

[PaulH2]

I can't remember for sure but it was almost certainly a class 503 and probably between Wallasey Grove Road and Liverpool Central in about 1978 (so the 503 would presumably have been in BR blue / grey with Merseyrail logo).

Paul

[Tonysmedley]

What a boring lot of first train rides from you youngsters!!

Tony

[gswindale]

What a boring lot of first train rides from you youngsters!!

Well thats not our fault is it? and I personally don't think of my first train ride that I remember as boring!

[117305]

guess it would have been an epb from Gillingham(kent),up to london when i was a wee baby sometime in the 1970s!