Modern or Old?

[HSTfan!!!]

They allowed us to use HST speeds now with 175's, even though the timetable is set for MU speed. That would be why.

I thought as much that might be the case! It is pretty good, considering I expect 175s accelerate a damn sight quicker than a HST lol

 

[P156KWJ]

With 87s going abroad (and the majority of 58s and some 37s now in Spain) it just shows you how well built English older stock is, compared to a lot of modern stock, which in 10 years will need replacing, and who pays for new stock? The taxpayer. That's who. And also, still can't get over how stupidly small the wheels are on voyagers, the wheels will need replacing a lot sooner. RANT OVER!!

 

[Respite]

From "Sheds" to Sheds. Hmm.

one TN

LOL.

Although DRS Crewe drivers sign 66's & 57's they also sign class 20's, 37's & 47's so it's all good. Besides as DRS seem to actually buy there rolling stock rather than lease it they tend to look after them well. Really tidy DRS just painted ex freightliner 57's currently stabled at Oxley. If someone said to me, "take any piece of rolling stock you want out of oxley yard" I would soon walk past the dirty 180's, past the sheddy dildo's, maybe pause at 86233 for a minute, but the 57's would actually win.
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I thought as much that might be the case! It is pretty good, considering I expect 175s accelerate a damn sight quicker than a HST lol

Yeah I think they do, especially 3 car ones, the 2 car ones seem a lot slower than the 3's.

 

[O L Leigh]

If someone said to me, "take any piece of rolling stock you want out of oxley yard" I would soon walk past the dirty 180's, past the sheddy dildo's, maybe pause at 86233 for a minute, but the 57's would actually win.

Noooo!!!! They may look like Duffs, but they've been possessed by the evil one. They are no more than Sheds in disguise.

I'd love to have a crack at a Goyle (or similar) some day just to find out what I might have missed out on. However, it's going to have to be at the behest of a preserved line, as there is going to be next to no chance of doing so on the mainline. I've got a huge soft spot for these locos, as they were a staple on my local line when I was a wee lad thanks to the large allocation of them at Stratford. Tractors would come a close second with a genuine Duff a fair third, but the British love of the underdog sees the Goyle come out on top.

I recently got to see a Cotswold Duff by Stratford with the Blue Pullman rake from the back cab of a Cl315. By squinting hard enough and imagining it surrounded by Cl306, Cl307 and Cl309 EMU's in BR blue/grey livery I could almost have been transported back to happier times before the knitting extended beyond Colchester. With a sufficiently large leap of imagination I could have been looking at a Stratford Duff in BR "banger" blue with a silver roof at the head of a rake of WCML cast-off Mk2D's.

Ah, happy days...

one TN