they didn't LOOK too bad once BREL neatened up the front ends, and Raspberry Ripple always suited them better than the old greeen and cream.
Problem is, they rode like an unsprung cart and could deafen small children when they screamed through Morley tunnel at 50. I'm probably looking through rose-tinted spectacles, but I'd rather they'd been retained and a few 142s been shipped off to Iran instead!
I was social distancing before it was cool Formerly known as 47434
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The '1st Generation' units always suited BR Blue and blue/grey more than this thing:
But the 101s weren't the prettiest either imo, that title goes to the 'Mexican Bean'-liveried 104 that ran Oban shuttles in the 80s:
I was social distancing before it was cool Formerly known as 47434
Last train journey I could be bothered to look up the headcode for: 04/02/2016, Mirfield to Batley, 2J34 1459 Huddersfield to Leeds, Northern Rail 144015
47343, that first one makes me feel sick. The second one isn't much better...
What? I think the Mexican Bean looks hot!
As for the 140, a hideous thing. But bizzarrely, BR crashworthiness requirements were relaxed in the early 80s, which is why the first production pacer originally looked like this:
I was social distancing before it was cool Formerly known as 47434
Last train journey I could be bothered to look up the headcode for: 04/02/2016, Mirfield to Batley, 2J34 1459 Huddersfield to Leeds, Northern Rail 144015
Sometimes I don't get the aircrafty people, climaxing over the oddest things!
An extreme case:
What was it that I liked best about her? Her nose? Her beautiful wings? Her nicely proportioned body? Her engines? I did not see anything about JA801A that I did not like. She was remarkably beautiful and that special livery fitted her like a glove. A supermodel among all the other airplanes!
I could not take my eyes off her!
The gate signs with the Dreamliner were beautiful too!
It looks like the front was chopped off, but not too bad besides.
I'll go in a different direction yet again (well, it does have "train" in its name):
--- Licenses: GNU LGPL, version 2 or newer, code and graphics. CC-By-SA, graphics, alternatively. If you're using any, I'd like to hear about it --- Call them "track types" ---
--- Mostly inactive developer for: NuTracks - Central European Train Set --- Running/compiling for: Linux (x86) - Android - Windows (32/64 bit) --- --- Need a file packer? 7-Zip --- BOINC - use your computing power to benefit science --- Block trackers, not ads --- Unix in dispersible pellets, the formula for the future. ---
That looks pretty terrible by today's standards but in 1973 it would have looked space-age!
I was social distancing before it was cool Formerly known as 47434
Last train journey I could be bothered to look up the headcode for: 04/02/2016, Mirfield to Batley, 2J34 1459 Huddersfield to Leeds, Northern Rail 144015
