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First post so be gentle.......

Just wondering if anyone knows were 89001 ended up? only had a few turns behind it and even jumped off one of the pennie 47s for it!!

Any news were it is?

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AC Loco Group. Not registered for mainline use IRRC.

Possibly at Barrow Hill.
 
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It's owned by the AC Locomotive Group and I believe it's based at Barrow Hill undergoing restoration. I'm not sure if that's with a view to mainline running or just to preserve it for the future.

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Not much point in having it mainline registered as it doesn't work! One of the traction motors is toast I seem to recall.
 
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ole man said:
Got to be the ugliest locomotive ever built, and i mean EVER
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Nooo, that would be a GE Class 70, silly....!! :D

Actually I must say I rather like the 89, particularly when she was in GNER blue. It is certainly subjective on the style front tho.
 
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ole man said:
Got to be the ugliest locomotive ever built, and i mean EVER
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You might be an ole man, but clearly too young to remember the coffee pot - so ugly, they had to scrap them - so ugly, in fact, that they were beautiful. They used to wander through Berkshire like sacks of potatoes

*I'm not talking about the 0-4-0 thing, though that's hardly beautiful, but the 0-6-0 Bulleid Q1
 
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heenan73 said:
You might be an ole man, but clearly too young to remember the coffee pot - so ugly, they had to scrap them - so ugly, in fact, that they were beautiful. They used to wander through Berkshire like sacks of potatoes

*I'm not talking about the 0-4-0 thing, though that's hardly beautiful, but the 0-6-0 Bulleid Q1
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Got any picture's of this ugly coffee pot?.
Will bet you nothing can be as ugly as 89001, im not that young, though admit never seen 89001 in action, was it good?.
 
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Geezertronic said:
If the Wikipedia picture and links are anything to go by, it looks like a poor mans Class 90 doesn't it?
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Almost the other way round really, it's faster and has two extra axles...

89001 came frighteningly close to being scrapped but the ACLG mounted a fantastic camaign to raise the money to save it at the last minute. They have to be one of the most dedicated and commendable loco preservation groups I know of.
 
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This beast:
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That is so ugly that it's beautiful. It looks like it's not been finished. Must have been a wartime design?

Anyway - class 89 - I agree with ole man. It is the ugliest thing I ever saw on rails, including the Q1 and class 70.
 
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Barrett M95 said:
That is so ugly that it's beautiful. It looks like it's not been finished. Must have been a wartime design?
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Correct - it was 'no frills' before Stelios was born. the most powerful 0-6-0 steamer ever in the UK, and survived in all its ugliness until 1966 (and there's still one at York, unless they've lost it). Great loco!

MUCH uglier than Avocet, which looks quite good when it's moving. Which has always been a rare occurrence.
 
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I quite like the "Anteater" but I do think it would look a lot better if they had built it with HST style horizontal headlight clusters instead of the experimental vertical ones.
 
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Agree that ACLG are very proactive in the preservation of locos. 89001 "Avocet" was built as a prototype by BREL in the hope that an order for a class full of them could be built.......................the order never came. Even a bus company bought it at one point. We all remember ugly locos and become fond of them in later years, I doubt that will be the case with 89001
 
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As with some other posters, I must protest against some opinions that the class 89 is "ugly": I think it is a better looking loco than the class 90, and it is certainly more capable in terms of haulage capacity and maximum speed than a 90.

If the specification for the ECML hadn't been changed in the eighties then we would probably have seen a fleet of 89s working for East Coast, which would have displayed better adhesion characteristics than the 91s given that the 140mph capability of those locos was never taken advantage of. Even if the Co-co bogies would have bashed the hell out of the track...
 
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Why are you some of you picking on the avocet, she is a beauty, much more better looking than a 70, I believe that I saw her in action, don't think I every traveled behind her.
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Don't think it is ugly.

Wasn't it called badger also?

Did see it once (at Euston),didn't get a pic.:-x
 
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Juniper Driver said:
Wasn't it called badger also?

Did see it once (at Euston),didn't get a pic.:-x
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Indeed, it was also known as the "Flying Badger".

Shame you didn't get a picture of it at Euston, as surely that was quite a rare occurence (I know that it was tested on the WCML before the wires had been put up over the ECML) because, as I remember, weren't the Co-co bogies were out of gauge for Euston station?
 
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