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Spacek531 wrote:

Geo Ghost wrote: Also Spacek, why has Twi been replaced with Nyancat? Not impressed

No, hyro said that the twi pic in my sig was breaking forum rules, so I'm looking for a new one. In the mean time, I changed my avatar

It was? How so? Size maybe... though I've seen much bigger around here (Note - No one ever try it. You know what I mean. Don't )
Hope to see something soon then. Be proud man, be proud!


For me, there are only two true diesel beasts.
A classic Intercity 125 powered with a Valenta engine, and a 221 Voyager for the modern day. But still, the sound and sight of an old 125 powering up and leaving a station, or whistling buy... frigging amazing. And it's still crystal clear in my memory.

A Voyager? Really?

Fraid so I know a lot of people dislike them, but the shape and look of them I find pretty awesome.
And I like the sound of them shooting past at speed.

Not a fan of the Voyager. The 180 looks much sleeker and less like someone has bought a bodykit from Halfords and has bolted it on the outside of a train...

EXTspotter wrote:Not a fan of the Voyager. The 180 looks much sleeker and less like someone has bought a bodykit from Halfords and has bolted it on the outside of a train...

But the 180s are a static display are they not?

Just had a flashback from when I was younger, maybe 7 or 8 years old, and was in the car park at Newton Abbot train station in the bit where it narrows as it goes alongside the southern approach to the station, so I was only a few feet from the track. I was sat on the bonnet of my nan's rusty red Nissan Bluebird (which was nicknamed the tank because of the amount of damage she did to other vehicles and lampposts in it) waiting for my sister to get off the train from school when an HST (in the old Great Western paintcheme with the green flying thing) flew past bellowing ridiculous amounts of acrid smoke. By the time I noticed what was going on I was in a massive black cloud. I remember being unable to smell or taste anything other than the burning oil for a few days afterwards. The sound of valentas reminds me of the taste still.

Class 165 wrote:

EXTspotter wrote:Not a fan of the Voyager. The 180 looks much sleeker and less like someone has bought a bodykit from Halfords and has bolted it on the outside of a train...

But the 180s are a static display are they not?

They need long rests so that they get their beauty sleep. If they didn't they'd be fugly like a 70.

Geo Ghost wrote:

Of course, for me as well. I'll never forget these.

Geo Ghost wrote:or whistling buy...

Oh the fail...

Anyway yes, the 125 is a sexy beast.

buckethead wrote:

Geo Ghost wrote:or whistling buy...

Oh the fail...

What ever you prefer to call that noise I can't very easily make the sound by text
PHHHHHHEEERRROOOOOOO
Nope... Doesn't work. Screw it, you know damn well what I meant. Stop mocking me

Geo Ghost wrote: PHHHHHHEEERRROOOOOOO

Maybe the word you're looking for is turbocharger?

buckethead wrote:
Anyway yes, the 125 is a sexy beast.

In an alternate universe...

Decided that'd be a bit too obvious for the 'Guess the Station' contest (even if I cropped the sign out)!

Well you never know. They're trying to get the prototype running again They've not done too badly so far, considering the state she used to be in not too many years back now.

True, shame they don't have the pair...


Meanwhile, here's a related old-school PHWOOOAAAAARRRR!!!!! (bit on the small side sorry!)

Class 165 wrote:

EXTspotter wrote:Not a fan of the Voyager. The 180 looks much sleeker and less like someone has bought a bodykit from Halfords and has bolted it on the outside of a train...

But the 180s are a static display are they not?

Where have you been?! They've been with Hull Trains and Grand Central for years (and now back with FGW too!)

PHWOARRRRR!!!

JamieLei wrote:

Class 165 wrote:

EXTspotter wrote:Not a fan of the Voyager. The 180 looks much sleeker and less like someone has bought a bodykit from Halfords and has bolted it on the outside of a train...

But the 180s are a static display are they not?

Where have you been?! They've been with Hull Trains and Grand Central for years (and now back with FGW too!)

I think it was more a reference to them being notoriously unreliable.

Geo, I have a nickname for the Voyagers that I have heard others use, It's the Vomiter!

A321Pilot wrote:Geo, I have a nickname for the Voyagers that I have heard others use, It's the Vomiter!

OOOOOLD!

Ameecher wrote:

JamieLei wrote:

Class 165 wrote:But the 180s are a static display are they not?

Where have you been?! They've been with Hull Trains and Grand Central for years (and now back with FGW too!)

I think it was more a reference to them being notoriously unreliable.

Indeed I was.