Dream train formations

[Mk1dreamer]

Day Train (Commuter/Intercity/Cross Country)
Locomotive (BR Class 37 or BR Class 47)
BR Mk2 Compartment Standard x 4
BR Mk3 Restaurant
BR Mk2 Compartment 1st x 4

Sleeper Train
Locomotive (BR Class 37(s) or BR Class 47)
BR Mk2 Compartment 1st (Standard Class Price) x 2
BR Mk2 Lounge
BR Mk3 Restaurant
BR Mk3 Sleeper x 6

 

[frankmoh]

All I ask for is an HST formation to stop somewhere in the Oyster Zone. Closest we got was when they stopped at Luton Airport.

 

[Bevan Price]

WCML, ECML or SR long distance express.
4-6-2 (LMSR, LNER, SR or BR)
BSK + 8 or 9 x SO + Buffet + FO + BFK
(GWR would have to use King or Castle 4-6-0)

Other (medium distance) express:
5MT 4-6-0 (LMSR, GWR, BR or LNER)
BSK + 6 x SO + BSK

Local - length variable dependent on typical number of passengers.
Loco steam, 2MT, 3MT or 4MT as required; tank loco for shorter distances. .

 

[contrex]

4vep4epb2hap. That's how I saw the SR emu notation in a working timetable I found on a bench on Herne Hill station around 1966 (e.g. '4cep4bep4cep').

 

[43096]

Diesel powered:
Valenta power car
TGS + TS + TS + TS + TS + TRFB + TF + TF
Valenta power car

If we're going electric:
ÖBB 1016 or 1116 Taurus
ÖBB 1016 or 1116 Taurus
SBB EuroCity FO (Panoramic) + SBB EuroCity FO + ČD Restaurant + Standard + Standard + Standard + Standard + Standard + Standard + Standard
(So not far off the formation of EC163/164 "Transalpin" between Buchs and Innsbruck, although the ČD restaurant obviously isn't on that service)

 

[DerekC]

O2 and a push-pull set would do me, as long as I could run them anywhere I like in my 1952 dream!

 

[Mk1dreamer]

I use a free Chat Ai thing and during my recovery from knee surgery it helped me build dream trains with pros and cons etc lol