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i'd have to add to mine the FL class 57's, the FL livery suits them well and some great names on them as well (some ex western names)

Western in BR blue full yellow fronts Hymek in BR blue small yellow panels and white window surrounds Class 50 Large Logo Class 47 two tone green small yellow panels

Again well done sproggy :o)

you talk too much sproggy lol

ahh yes!! they sort of forgot about him in the design process!

seen the working model of the leader a few years back now, incidently the original didn't run of 'turf' but good ole fashioned coal ;o)

funny you should say that! someone has built one and it is fitted with a gas turbine engine!! saw it at a model engineer show

Errr! no ! this is the machine with the fitted carpet for the drivers slippers lol

still used now by chiltern couple of services a day and more at weekends

class 25 allocated all trips on 29/30/4 and 1/5 with the 33 on a freight demo

All are 'low emmision' type as 66/9 but numbered under the 66/7 to keep them numerically uniform for GBRf. GBRf do have 'other' loco's other than 47840, cue loads of speculation as to when they will move and whether its under their own power or dragged

as a driver on the GWML (albeit the 1st 10 miles and the busiest!!) most of the delays are down to network rail with TCF's and points failures, the 165/166's are a****st the most reliable DMU around, the 180's are gettin better (now that the stupid coupling cover has been removed!!) and most of...

about half our drivers are female, although what i was referring to was the amount of female totty i meet whilst drivin connect, won'tbe long before summer is here wink wink

always take my 'black book' with me

I do both, but only get connect turns when i'm on spare turns or they're short, prefer connect though as you get a half hr sleep in the head shunt every trip lol, plus you get to see more totty drivin connect than HEx lol

very true Tom and daft rule it was too!! (ahhhh like your avatar!! lol)

in a word YES

Defo not DEMU's its well known that these aren't suitable and is the reason the whole HST2 project has come about. What it will be is fixed formation with driving cars at each end whether these are powered or not depends on which manufacturer you go to, with either push-pull locomotives (aka...

The power cars wouldn't be much heavier than the existing ones, you use distributed power, the power cars would simply be driving vans with a diesel-alternator set, the traction motors would be distributed along the coaches, with the OHL 25kv stepdown transformer placed under one of the cars...