What is your favourite class of train?

[JamieLei]

Our work intranet has just been updated to a 'social' intranet. On the homepage is a quiz, asking what is your favourite class of train from the seleciton of rolling stock in our TOC. The obvious crank option - HST - won by a landslide bigger than Corbyn's mandate.

So what is your favourite class, crank and non-crank alike?

[Dave]

Loco: 92
MU: 153

Simples.

How's "tell people what you're doing" going for you?

[JamieLei]

lol - a little vague of course - although haven't written anything that isn't public!

I also 'liked' pay day. Cause it's a social intranet and everything can be liked or followed

[Dave]

Mostly my posts to SharePoint or Delve or whatever it is MS are calling it this week involve "This week, I'm helping one part of the business royally do over another for their own gain"

[Nawdic]

Loco:47
MU:456 in Southern spec. As much as I like what SWT have done with them, the old seats were far better than the new ones.

[Kevo00]

Depends if it has to be presently operating. But assuming not.

Loco: 50
MU: 303.

[Pilot]

Loco: 67 (I loved these when they were on the Chilterns, though I think the 68's are pretty decent)
MU: 185 (If they had a few more carriages, they'd be the perfect diesel unit)

[Geo Ghost]

A1X Terrier is probably my favourite.
Such a sweet little engine all round.

As for electric, diesel, and MUs... I honestly can't decide. Too many interesting ones for different reasons.

[Chris]

MU: 185 (If they had a few more carriages, they'd be the perfect diesel unit)

Nah they've got rock hard seats, fine for a short stint such as Leeds-Manc but distinctly unpleasant for any longer such as Leeds-Liverpool. The 168s on the other hand have some of the comfiest seats around!

[Redirect Left]

Loco: 92
MU: Hmm. Stuck between 185 and 220/221s. I'll go with the 220s though!

I personally do love the Pacers (at least the 142/144s that operate in the North) though, possibly the only person to do so. Yes they're old, they're flying apart, but they're such a memorable and iconic (if for the wrong reasons often) part of British rail building history.

[JamieLei]

I did vote for the 222 (surprised that Leftie prefers the 220s over them...)! Every time you get on a Meridian, you can't help but think that 'this is what the Voyagers could have been...!)

[Redirect Left]

I did vote for the 222 (surprised that Leftie prefers the 220s over them...)! Every time you get on a Meridian, you can't help but think that 'this is what the Voyagers could have been...!)

I have only been on a 222 once, perhaps if I used them more often I would indeed prefer them. It isn't often I hop aboard EMT trains for any real distance, so don't usually see 222s, except one time out of Sheffield towards London.

[Pilot]

MU: 185 (If they had a few more carriages, they'd be the perfect diesel unit)

Nah they've got rock hard seats, fine for a short stint such as Leeds-Manc but distinctly unpleasant for any longer such as Leeds-Liverpool. The 168s on the other hand have some of the comfiest seats around!

I quite like the seats on the 185s personally, they weren't even that bad when I did Carlisle - Manchester. Of course, the fold down ones are awful, but most are.

[Badger]

Loco - Class 50.
MU - Class 309.

[EXTspotter]

Loco - 47

MU - N700 Series Shinkansen (if it is favourite British - I'll got for 159)

[SquireJames]

G2A "Super D"

[Translink]

Steamer: LMS Black 5
Diesel Loco: BR Class 37
Electric Loco: BR Class 91
DMU: NIR Class 3000
EMU: Class 320

[andel]

153311

'Nuff Said.

[Geo Ghost]

153311

'Nuff Said.

The beast has risen.


Lately, I've started to develop a 'respect' for 313s. Finding out how they all work, all the mechanics and such. It has really fascinated me!
Such complex yet simple machines.