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Is "hellfire" far too overused??

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OK recently I've been getting quite annoyed at the sheer amount of times the word hellfire has been used to describe videos or photos of something that's, well, just not hellfire.

Does anyone else find this even remotely annoying?
Yes I use the word but I don't use it to describe 7 and a half minute videos of constant processions of 450s or any other unit crap.

Thoughts?

I can use it how I want against Units, if you have a personal anger and dislike to my ways of calling units hellfire and personally PM me with the subject.
 

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you see, I think class 465s are hellfire, they don't smoke (well unless they're on fire), but make a damn good sound loudly (especially 465/9s), but they are the only electrics I think are hellfire, bar 73s, but only when in diesel mode :D
 

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you see, I think class 465s are hellfire, they don't smoke (well unless they're on fire), but make a damn good sound loudly (especially 465/9s), but they are the only electrics I think are hellfire, bar 73s, but only when in diesel mode :D

465s are rather rateable, specially when its slippy.
 

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top 5 hellfire:
5: Class 185 (the engine noises are great!)
4: Class 43 (valenta / VP185 only)
3: Class 465/9s
2: Class 47
1: Class 37

worst 5 hellfire:
5: Class 150 (they just sound awful)
4: Class 43 (MTUs) they just sound awful too
3: Class 180 Why do people rave so much about them being with HT?
2: Class 170 sounds like a flippin flymo!
1: Class 390 Most awful train ever built, will only ever look / sound good when on fire
 

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2: Class 170 sounds like a flippin flymo!
1: Class 390 Most awful train ever built, will only ever look / sound good when on fire

170s rock! End of. 8) And as for Pendos, a guess you've never been on a 320, 321 or 322?
 

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a guess you've never been on a 320, 321 or 322?

All of them pretty much have the same seating which I guess is your point. But I quite like the seating on 319s/321s/317s...
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It is horrendously over-used but it's just become a parody of itself and is just funny to say it :P.

What a hellfire opinion! ;):lol:
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at least bins have decent sized windows

Don't give 321s/317s/319s or any other unit of the type good comments about seating, as JDS will have none of it and say they are too low and you cant see out the windows. :roll:
 

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All of them pretty much have the same seating which I guess is your point. But I quite like the seating on 319s/321s/317s...

:shock: Well, perhaps they are better than the 320 rubbish we get up here. Stupid seating that's both impractical and uncomfortable, tables that are absolutely no use for anything... The refurbed 318s are much better and even the 334s (although I find the 318s more comfy).
 

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yeah i'd call hellfire depending if its noisy/claggy whatever.

This subject comes to mind of something like what do you call clag?

Ever watched carry on clagging 1 DVD? Most the clag is haze and hardly just very small exhaust
 

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yeah i'd call hellfire depending if its noisy/claggy whatever.

This subject comes to mind of something like what do you call clag?

Ever watched carry on clagging 1 DVD? Most the clag is haze and hardly just very small exhaust

And is all preserved stuff <(
 

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31454+31602 at Bescot is an example of hellfire'ness, seeing it 4 times thrashing and quite loud, I even gave the train a flail
and as David Maxhey would say: "and why not"

I will never forget that
 

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37605 out of Viccy wasn't bad. No full thrash action but seeing as it was under the Southern Platorms, it sounded good.

Also 259/605 through Wyteleafe was HELLFIRE! No video though as a 456 got in the way for the 259 shot! :(
 
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