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Falcon, a fine looking locomotive and quite swift. Hymeck for their looks and 86s for sheer power. Sorry lads, I'm a bit old!o_O

You fella must be very young! I remember going to meet a girlfriend at West Worthing on a what I think was a NOL. I remember because if I ha d a drink and the "Rock and Roll" ride usually ment I had to "cross my Legs" until I got to Lancing where I could use to Loo! Happy days

I remember the 86's when they were AL6's. Saw my first parked at Rugby when I was a very junior engineer on the Electric Traction Section at Euston . About 1964ish maybe 1965. I met them later on the Great Eastern 50 years later. They always had a lot of dig.

Oh Dear! I am out of date ( Retired Engineer, 17 Years) I thought that the hydrogen was to be used as the fuel for an extensively modified "diesel engine". Back to the classroom for me!

I worked for BR(E) in the late 60s and although my memory isn't so good now I thought that they retained the old works diesel shed as the DRS(diesel repair shop) and the black building further over was the Power House. On the other side of the line to Temple Mills was the old abandoned Carriage...

A long ago memories a a small boy on bike ride on the "Combes Road" between Shoreham and Steyning. Looking across the Adur Valley towards the cement works and watching a "Push/Pull" propelled by a Terrier on the line from Shoreham to Christ's Hospital/Horsham and the faint "Bark Bark" of the...

Yes I remember the 17.40 Ex LV in the early 70's. I think that often the delay was due to the 17.30 Norwich, usually hauled by a 47, was behind a Southend Victoria, which as it had to cross the down line at Shenfield, often held for an up train from the Chelmsford direction.. The end result was...

I worked at LV during the late 60's and never heard the Chingford and other services referred to as "Jazz". Incidentally there was an old chap in our office who remembered the service and who's claim to fame was that he was originally employed by the Great eastern railway

A School Trip to the "Festival of Britain" in 1951 and waiting at Victoria and watching an electric loco pulling out with a boat train. (Probably a Newhaven boat train with a SR "Booster" Loco on he front) The blue flashes from the 3rd rail shoes lit up half of south London! I still remember the...

In general the main difference between the electric and diesel locomotives is that when starting away the tractive efforts are similar, but as the locomotive accelerates the power required goes up by the square so that you soon run into the diesel engines maximum power output, whereas the...

When I was at Willesden MPD in the 1961 there was a lot of talk about Cricklewood's problems with the Co-Bo's when I was on evening turn I was often asked to carry out a "daily exam" on multiple Type 1.s,which I understood were last resort to help out Cricklewood for a Condor failure. Sometimes...

Mine was D8043, which, as an electrician at Willesden MPD, I partly rewired. Bags of overtime, helped to pay for my marriage. As an aside the Type !'s were the best loco's "On shed". Seldom failed, simple maintenance no wonder they are still around.

Reading these posts made me think of how much current there was for each pantograph over 500 amps dc! No wonder they were of such large construction and very unsightly. They must have system voltage drop problems.

I remember when I was working at Willesden MPD in the early 1960's being called out to a fault on a Type 2 Sultzer(24) and control kicking up a fuss because it was a "Residential". I think to Tring. I don't think I fixed it! The Station was a dump, filthy dirty. I was more interested in the type...

As a schoolboy in the early 50's at Worthing Central station looking at the Pullman Car of a 6PAN unit wondering if I'd ever be rich enough to travel in one! 10 years later I did on the Brighton Belle with my new girlfriend(now wife of 55years) to visit my mother. Memories!