Loco names: The best and most, well.....?

anamorph · Post by **anamorph** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:02 pm

For me, loco names carry an aura of a past time - even as recenlty
as the 1980's...
Here are my favourites...

THE KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERER
PINZA
AJAX
HAL O' THE WIND
WAVERLEY
KLIPSPRINGER
PAPYRUS
any of the GLENS
and to save time, two of the best...
FLYING SCOTSMAN (obviously)
and the best of all....NORTH BRITISH
now, how about some "stranger ones"....
THE LAIRD O' MONKBAIRNS
LUCKIE MUCKLEBUCKET
CUDDIE HEADRIGG
and what self-respecting crew didn't get a ribbing driving CALL BOY?

nightbeaver911 · Post by **nightbeaver911** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:15 pm

best:
Nimbus

Atlantis (not a name yet but im workin on it

Most stupid:
The clothes show live (not!)
BBC East (or something)

Kevo00 · Post by **Kevo00** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:36 pm

I've always liked quality loco names and I quite like the way GNER are naming their locos at the minute, with the simple use of city, county or landmark names with the Rev W. Awdry as well.

But my fave silly name always has to be St Margret's School City of Durham Railtrack Railsafe Trophy Winners 1997 or something like that. I believe a 37 carried it which probably often double headed with the promisingly named Hartlepool Pipe Mill.

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:41 pm

and don't forget D30 Wandering Willie.

These locos were named after characters in Walter Scott's Waverley Novels.

I just hope we don't get an Eastenders class.

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:50 pm

Can't imagine a class 66 being called 'Rickeh!' for some reason

David

mikey2001 · Post by **mikey2001** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:52 pm

stupid:

European Rail Operator of the Year - The IFW Freighting Industry Awards 1998 (carried by 47309);

favourite:

County of Cheshire - carried by 87025.

Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:07 pm

There was a Virgin DVT named 'The big dish' for some reason or another

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:12 pm

Its BBC East Midlands Today actually

Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:14 pm

Well there used to be one called the big dish... I saw it in Lancaster all the time. In fact I think theres an upload of it in the download library

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:19 pm

martinhodgson wrote:Well there used to be one called the big dish... I saw it in Lancaster all the time. In fact I think theres an upload of it in the download library

I think Pete was correcting

BBC East (or something)

from nightbeaver911. Can't have been correcting you, I've seen it around too

David

Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:41 pm

Ah, fair enough

I don't think it carries that livery any more. And I saw Hal'O the Wynd today

on the 15.58 from Lancaster to London Euston

GatExp · Post by **GatExp** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:56 pm

The steam locomotives had some wonderfully evocative names. All, I'm sure were names of something else first but these names on an almost living thing just seemed to work so well.

Jubilee: Agamemnon, Mars, Phoenix.

A4: Quicksilver, Merlin.

A3: Brown Jack, Sceptre, Night Hawk

A1 Madge Wildfire

A2: Airborne, Sugar Palm, Bronzino, Pearl Diver.

BR7: Ariel, Vulcan, Shooting Star, Boadicea.

Not forgetting BR9 Evening Star.

They work for me anyway.

60085 · Post by **60085** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:21 pm

Daft (IMO)

- Royal Logistic Corps Postal & Courier Services
- OVS BULLEID C.B.E. 1937 1949 C.M.E. SOUTHERN RAILWAY
- Derby & Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- National Garden Festival Gateshead 1990
- Wigan Pier

Some of my favorites

Mallard, Evening Star, Bittern, Spitfire, Manna, Merlin, Griffon, City of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Swallow, The Scotsman, Pinza, Lord Nelson, The Black Prince...

boeing126 · Post by **boeing126** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:46 pm

Three Jubilee names spring to mind..45689 Ajax....45715....Invincible and...45742....connaught.

jashton · Post by **jashton** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:50 am

For some reason I always liked Velocity which I believe was a Class 87.

Jeff