Trains and Planes and Boats and Vehicles - Your Favourite 4

I've really had to think about this and try and narrow it down a bit........failed miserably.

Loco- King Arthur( Watercart tender)
Adams Radial.
Johnson 1P 0.4.4T ( yes, really !)
Toby the tram engine.

Plane- Hurricane/Spitfire.....oh and Gloster Gladiator.

Boat- Not a strong point..Always fascinated by Turbinia thanks to a cigarette card.

Turbinia - Wikipedia

Big boat- Anything WW1. Dreadnought and thanks to Airfix, Iron Duke and Warspite.

Car.....mmm Struggled here. Don't really do cars so settled for a 1958 Triumph Tiger 110 650. Black and Ivory.



That said, a Rover P6 3500 V8 would be welcome.



Rob.

Really difficult but at this moment in time;

Train, an annual trip with a group of friends on the Severn Valley. We hire a loco and and inspection saloon for the day, enjoy a good lunch, a few drinks and great companionship. The team from the Severn Valley are brilliant and make the day for us.
Boat, travelling with my family on a paddle steamer on Lake Geneva drinking a chilled glass of Swiss white wine enjoying the spectacular scenery.
Car, this changes all the time, for the last ten years mostly my Jaguar E Type, in the last couple of years an Alpine A110,the new model, driving from Beaune to Geneva via the the Jura Mountains to visit our son and family.
Plane, travelling in luxury at the front of a 747 to New York, Chicago or Denver to take long distance Amtrak journeys or ride on the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge in Colorado and New Mexico.

Roll-on being able to get on the road again,

Happy New Year,
Tim

Funny idea!

Train is simple, because it's the last mobile earthquake on German rails.



Plane: F14. I agree with Mickoo, because this plane proofs that pigs (and trucks) can fly.

Boat: Not for me. All too close to water.

Car:
really?
250GTO


Michael

michl080 said:

Funny idea!

Train is simple, because it's the last mobile earthquake on German rails.

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Plane: F14. I agree with Mickoo, because this plane proofs that pigs (and trucks) can fly.

Boat: Not for me. All too close to water.

Car:
really?
250GTO
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Michael

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Nice Rabbits! and like real ones, they seem to breed equally well. I have all three EK Verlag volumes and it's a dizzy read keeping up with all the variants.

Great idea for a thread.

Train. Anything that ran into Wadebridge, so Bulleids, T9, N, O2, BWT etc. All very different in style, size and purpose. Very hard to choose one from that lot but if I had to I think it would be the grace and elegance of a narrow cab T9 with watercart tender.

Plane. The usual Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Tomcat etc would all be on the shortlist, all planes I built kits of as a lad. I think the SR71 Blackbird is a stunning plane to look at but takes second place to my favourite, the Mosquito. If the choice were limited to civilian planes, I'd probably go for Concorde. A big regret that I never flew on one.

Ship. I'm taking this very broadly as something that floats... I which case it would be a narrow boat for the UK canals. Many many enjoyable holidays with friends over the years. A sightseeing vehicle complete with beds, beer fridge and full English. Of the many we have hired, my favourite was Tricia, a 70' narrow boat with traditional boatman's cabin at the back complete with stove. A pig to steer but lovely.

Cars. There are lots of beautiful and functional vehicles produced over the years and it would be tempting to choose some esoteric sports car that I've never owned and driven. Instead I'll just look at the cars I owned. My first was a Vauxhall Astra E reg. Rubbish car, painfully underpowered and with fading blue paint but some fantastic memories of trips and friends. Despite that I'm going for the BMW 325 tourer I had. Lovely to look at, fun to drive, practical to use h a good all round package. The only car I've had that gave you a kick in the back when you stomped the accelerator. (Best forget the mpg, cost of tyres and electrical issues)

Loco - a non-streamlined Princess Coronation (in Scarlet Lake)



Planes - De Haviland Mosquito



Boats - one that gets me to where I want to go without sinking.

Cars - 427 Shelby Cobra (and my Yamaha V Max for when I want to nip out for the papers)

A mixture of wish list and experience.
Like Adrian, "Aircraft - this didn't take much deliberation Eurofighter Typhoon". With 26 types in my log book, this is the only one in my bucket list - not for a trip but to operate it on the front line. Forty years too old to ever achieve that. The expansion into roles that it wasn't intended to do is seriously impressive.
Loco - The Class 37 or the 42XX. They shifted an awful amount of coal.
Boat - HMS Arrow as driven by an aviator captain in the South Atlantic (think speed boat with a Phil Bennet side step), although HMS Ocelot is a close call for losing two days of my life in it while it was tied up in Mare Harbour.
Car - Like Michael I love the looks of the 250GTO but the experience of the pin sharp handling of the Lancis Delta Integrale still puts a smile on my face. I liked it so much that I had two.

Happy New Year. Bring on the vacine!

Simon

This could be fun. Let’s see…

Favourite "train" would have to be LMS 10000 and/or 10001 just because. Often forgotten, but back in the public eye more recently as model manufacturers have produced RTR and kits that are pretty accurate. Some mad people are also trying to build a replica 10000 somewhere up in the Midlands, too.

Plane is TSR2. A great "what might have been", coincidentally flown the year I was born. I’ve loved this plane since I saw a picture of it when I was a child. The shape is so evocative.

Boats? Not too bothered by them, if I’m honest. I like them historically, in a general transporty kind of way, but I don’t have a favourite particularly. Therefore, I will throw the Short C Class Empire flying boat into the ring. Or the Saro Princess…

Cars. Everyone seems to like a supercar. That’s fine, but if I had to make a choice I would go for a Citroën SM for the utterly sublime looks and the totally unique Citroën technologies. The Maserati engine goes by the way, when it goes at all. Alternatively, from completely the opposite end of the spectrum, an Austin Maxi 1750HL. Five door hatchback with five speed gearbox, and hydrolastic suspension. An advanced motor, ahead of its time in many ways and, if you can find one, still a competent car for modern road conditions.

Train - that's an easy one, the Quarry Hunslets, the locos I'm most familiar with and I've driven six of them on 3 different railways.

In the late 1950s/early 1960s with a schoolmate we used to spend the summer school holidays exploring railways in North Wales and sometimes these included slate quarries such as Penrhyn and Dinorwic which still had working steam locomotives including several Hunslets. In those days nobody seemed to mind a couple of schoolboys wandering about the premises unaccompanied, although at Penrhyn after descending two levels into the pit via vertical ladders we were told we shouldn't be down there, but we did get a ride back up in one of the DeWinton water balances. Penrhyn and Dinorwic were visited fairly regularly until steam finished in the mid 1960s.

In 1970 a friend got the job as Manager of the new Llanberis Lake Railway and invited me to come on a Sunday and "bring your overalls". After initially helping in the workshop and with tracklaying, as soon as public services began in 1971 I started driving one of the three Hunslets on Sundays and continued to do that regularly for the next 26 years.



Of the three Hunslets, ELIDIR was probably the favourite, named after the mountain where Dinorwic Quarry is situated. DOLBADARN had a stiff regulator - in the central dome instead of the raised firebox on the other two locos - and WILD ASTER was painted blue and ran with the name THOMAS BACH ("Little Thomas"), 'nuff said !

On several occasions when the Bala Lake Railway were short of footplate crew I used to spend a day there driving either MAID MARIAN or HOLY WAR.




At the Festiniog Railway's "Hunslet Hundred" event in 1993 I had charge of the Welsh Slate Museum's Hunslet UNA for a day, spent mainly shunting at Minffordd Yard with trips before and after along the line to/from Boston Lodge in convoy with two other Hunslets. Back in the late 1950s on a visit to Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry we were shown into a small shed containing two redundant steam locos which had been replaced by a diesel loco, these were UNA and BRITOMART. Little did we realise that some 35 years later on the Festiniog Railway at Minffordd I would be driving UNA and my schoolmate, who works as a volunteer guard on the FR, would be guard on the shuttle train between Minffordd Station and Minffordd Yard behind BRITOMART.

When I started with model live steam locos the choice was obvious, and one wasn't enough !



Vehicle - I suppose it must be this:


I've had it for nearly 38 years from new so I suppose I must like it !
Since I acquired my first car in 1965 I've only had 5 in total and I've still got two of them.
If there ever is another car, maybe a Mustang now they do RHD.


Planes/Boats - no interest, but if pressed I'll go for Spitfire and paddle steamer.

On page 2 already!

Some very interesting choices out there. Merlin engined WWII planes get lots of mentions and the usual supercars as well. The choice of boats is most interesting - I nearly chose a canal boat (but not the narrow ones) and to be honest after my drill ship experience I went off boats for years (A gas bubble under a drill ship has a disastrous effect on the density of sea water). Only recently have I started to trust the Brittany Ferry ships.

I am most impressed with the TSR2 choices. I can still remember the headlines when the prototype flew. I wonder if Post Brexit we can get back to turning out such wonderful machines.

As a Silhillian by birth (but really a Brummie, I was born of the boundary between the two on the Warwick Road, so they say) I like LarryG's Rover 105 a lot, I have driven several Rovers but not that model. We used to call the smaller ones Auntie Rovers, by the way, not really PC these days.

This thread got me going, like Mickoo too many interests that float my boat, but I've boiled it down to these.

Trains, well it's got to be a locomotive and fairly obviously it's the Liverpool St Station Pilot ( my avatar ) the reason being is as explained in my Wordpress blog it was the first locomotive I had seen or would remember seeing at the age of three, yes I still have that vague memory in my hairless brain. My Mother and Father were taking a short break down to Bath to see family in '59 we would have travelled by Shenfield Stock from Rayleigh in Essex up to Liverpool St. and then tube to Paddington for the run to Bath.
I can still remember standing at the buffer stops. Dad holding my hand looking at the pilot loco with bright red coupling rods, the main feature that stuck in my mind.



Boats, and considering my connection and interest in the East End docks and wharves it's got to be the Thames Barge. Yes I have the plans to build one in 1:43.5 scale for Bow Creek



Aircraft, loads I like but the one that has a proud meaning for me is the Douglas A20 Havoc or Boston as Brit's called them. Why ? because my Grandfather was an air gunner on these aircraft on Allied Command over the Med. They strafed and bombed the German's out of North Africa all the way back through Italy and back to where they came from which probably helped stop the war. He survived being shot down, they all bailed out successfully behind our lines and also a belly landing at their base, He flew over 60 sorties with 114 Sqd.



Vehicles, again too may to choose from cars, trucks but I suppose as an old Rocker it's got to be Tritons ( I built a few) but having said that if I was riding today ( and had a fat wallet ) it would have to be a Norvin.



I'll add an edit, my favourite car was my '90 35th anniversary model T'- bird SC just 'cause it could burn off the boom boys in hot hatches away from the lights


Col.

Possible 3 out of 4 if you had the money...

The Copy Pit Banker!
Last engine out of Rose Grove shed to bank coal up to Copy Pit Summit.
3rd August 68 - The last service day | LMS Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48191

C&O H8 Allegheny - check it out!
EE Lightning - amazing engineering manifest on a budget
QE2
Lincoln Continental Mark 4 - gross but so attractive!

Ah good, another vote for the Lightning!

Osgood said:

• - apart from the Carlos Fandango wheels just the same, even had my old DIY stripes on the door!

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Showing your age now Tony

Col.

My favourite train is the Class 303, "Blue Train" introduced on the North Clydeside electrification in 1960. For a teenager on Clydeside, this was a great development and a very Clydeside one as well, with the units being made by Pressed Steel at Paisley and the livery being based on that of the Caledonian. Fast and effective, with wonderful forward panoramic views out of the driving ends.

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This was my own picture which I now use for my avatar.

Favourite plane was the VC10 just because I managed to get a first class flight from Lagos to Gatwick on one when working on a promotional film for British Caledonian in the early 1970s - first class all the way with all the trappings. It was a superb flight over Sahara. the BCal representative with us on our trip was a training captain in his day job and he reckoned that the VC10 was a pilot's plane.

British Caledonian VC10 NAI 1 Skilton 257 :: Airline Aircraft Postcards :: AirlinePostcardDatabase.com

Favourite ship was the PS Jeannie Deans - built for the LNER in 1931 which plied her trade on the Clyde from Craigendoran. As a North Clydesider, the ex-LNER boats were the natural choice for going "Doon the Watter" as they were based at Craigendoran. The ex-LMS boats were on the other side of the Clyde at Gourock and Greenock. She was a typical Clyde paddler with a top speed of around 18.5 knots - a hangover from the cut-throat pre-group traffic between the North British, the Caledonian and the South West. A lot of us hoped that she might be preserved and she was for a few years. But her sister ship "Waverley" was chosen for long term preservation.

Jeanie Deans 1931

Favourite car was my Vauxhall Omega Elite estate, P673VTC, a 3 litre V6 automatic. It had started life as a lease to Rolls-Royce management at Filton, Bristol and I got it with 70,000 on the clock when the lease ended after three years. It was top of the range complete with really great heated leather seats - great on cold winter mornings. And she could go when I wasn't worried about fuel consumption in those times. Otherwise she was a great drive with a very good automatic box and I could actually get around 30mpg from her on easy motorway drives. I had her for almost ten years and got to 220,000 miles with no major problems.

Vauxhall Omega Estate 3.0 MV6 5d specs & dimensions | Parkers

I never actually tried to see how fast she could go, but her 0 - 70 was impressive.

When you put the back seat down, you could get a double bed in the back.

Jim.

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Boats - Riva Ariston, small and beyond my grasp

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Just once I had one within my grasp - but that was in the physical sense, not the financial one!

We visited a reclusive French gentleman who has a quite unbelievable collection of vehicles - from cars to aeroplanes.
The collection spans from a 1916 chain-drive Mack tipper through to mid- 60s racing cars I guess, and is a veritable time capsule of the American automobile industry.
Throughout our visit (mainly to do with ww2 era U.S. heavy trucks), my conversational input was constantly interrupted by "I 'ave one of those" and a diversion into yet another barn stuffed full with row upon row of automobilia on wheels - some restored, some part-restored, some as-found.

I wish I 'd been more interested in cars - I really had little idea what I was looking at but they were certainly some of the rarest you could find.

In the workshop (with an uber rare Bugatti on the ramps being fettled) was a Riva - the only one I've ever seen.
I'm not a boat enthusiast (my idea of a boat is one you can take pike fishing and not worry about the ensuing mess) but still went weak at the knees.....

And yes I did (grasp) touch it!!