Favourite Nickname

[43021HST]

What is your favourite railway nickname.
Mine applies to the class 60s, Politician because you can see right through 'em. I also like Gricer because it sounds like a bird not a spotter.

 

[mrcheek]

"Flying Banana"
Originally used for the initial batch of GWR Diesel Railcars.
Later used to describe all HSTs.
Now used to describe the NMT HST!

 

[berwickspotter]

Growlers for the sound that the 37s make

 

[generalvegitable]

bendy-d... because it describes a pendolino very well

 

[EM2]

Arkwrights for the 444s

 

[Phoenix]

Either Buckets 40,44,45,46 for the leading area of their boogies which look like two buckets.
Wagons and again its 40,44,45,46 for there 1-co-co-1 wheel arrangement.
And finally whistling Wardrobes 20's well you know why.

 

[tbtc]

Names like Peak, Deltic or Western are fine, because we all know what they mean, but a lot of the "nicknames" used these days are confusing, partly because there's no consensus and partly because everyone makes up their own

 

[Daimler]

Can't beat 'Terrier' for the LBSC A1s/A1xs. Perfect description.

 

[Bittern]

Pendolino. If not for the fact that the name sounds cool, it's my favorite train.

 

[Ilove165's]

Doodlebugs for the 450s...They were sent to London from Germany and no-one knows what'll happen when the engines cut out :]

 

[Danielo]

Weren't 321's called dusty bins?

 

[BlythPower]

Weren't 321's called dusty bins?

Indeed, the ancient gameshow 3-2-1, fronted by Ted Rogers, featured a booby prize of a dustbin character named Dusty Bin. Hence the EMU nickname. Which makes you wonder why EMU's in general aren't nicknamed "Rod Hull's"...

 

[37401]

"Growlers" "Choppers" "Whistlers" and every other nickname a English Electric Loco has had simply because there my favorites

 

[43106]

Unfortunately, the nicknames I used are out of date, as they've all been scrapped! Nevertheless...
Any DMU was known as a BUG-CART, though some people called them BOG-CARTS.
Stanier 8Fs were BIG EIGHTS
Princess Royals (e.g. 46201) were known as SEMI's
Class 24's WITHOUT a headcode box above the drivers cab were known as SKINHEADS.
Metropolitan Vickers Co-Bos (e.g. D5701) were known as CHEESEBOXES when based on the Cumbrian Coast line (Workington, Barrow, etc)
Gresley A4 were sometimes called STREAKS
Fowler 5MTs (42701?) were called CRABS, because of the link motion.
Fowler 4Fs were called JINTY's - God knows why

 

[Hampshire Unit]

I Liked “Plastic Pigs” for the class 442 simply because once the drivers key was removed they used to snort like pigs !!

 

[Daimler]

Princess Royals (e.g. 46201) were known as SEMI's

Really? I always got the impression that was the nickname for de-streamlined Princess Coronations whose tapering smokebox had not been replaced/filled in following de-streamlining (hence, they were semi-streamlined).

 

[EM2]

Unfortunately, the nicknames I used are out of date, as they've all been scrapped! Nevertheless...
Any DMU was known as a BUG-CART, though some people called them BOG-CARTS.
Stanier 8Fs were BIG EIGHTS
Princess Royals (e.g. 46201) were known as SEMI's
Class 24's WITHOUT a headcode box above the drivers cab were known as SKINHEADS.
Metropolitan Vickers Co-Bos (e.g. D5701) were known as CHEESEBOXES when based on the Cumbrian Coast line (Workington, Barrow, etc)
Gresley A4 were sometimes called STREAKS
Fowler 5MTs (42701?) were called CRABS, because of the link motion.
Fowler 4Fs were called JINTY's - God knows why

Anything without a headcode box (eg 31s) was a Skinhead. And it's Fowler
3F tanks that are Jinties. Crabs were Hughes engines (ex-L&Y 2-6-0), not Fowler.

Sorry...

 

[berwickspotter]

Class 67s- SKIPS

 

[TDK]

Thumpers