Guess the Train...

[185143]

Gwr 143?

 

[Cowley]

Gwr 143?

Not a 143.

 

[Ash Bridge]

It looks like it could be a GWR class 153 to me Mr C?

 

[Cowley]

Damn good Mr Bridge. You may have guessed by now that I was eating my sandwiches next to Crediton station the other day.

Time for one of your confusing photos...

 

[Ash Bridge]

Damn good Mr Bridge. You may have guessed by now that I was eating my sandwiches next to Crediton station the other day.

Time for one of your confusing photos...

Thanks Mr C. Perhaps when you're finished on this current job you could maybe slap a fresh coat of green paint on that former Southern Railway iron fencing in the foreground of the picture?

Here's the next confusing photo....

 

[Cowley]

This one is really doing my head in. I just can't think of anything that has a roof like that.

 

[Ash Bridge]

This one is really doing my head in. I just can't think of anything that has a roof like that.

I'll throw in a bit of a clue if you like Mr Cowley. There are two connections with my home town of Stockport with this particular shot of a train/locomotive/unit etc. Just hope that doesn't make things even more confusing

 

[Cowley]

Ok. Purely going on that clue, is it a shot of 390056 'Stockport 170' taken at Stockport station as you were about to take the train from Stockport to somewhere else before you went back to Stockport station later and picked the car up from Stockport station car park and drove home through Stockport?

Surely I've said Stockport! enough to win this?

 

[Ash Bridge]

Ok. Purely going on that clue, is it a shot of 390056 'Stockport 170' taken at Stockport station as you were about to take the train from Stockport to somewhere else before you went back to Stockport station later and picked the car up from Stockport station car park and drove home through Stockport?

Surely I've said Stockport! enough to win this?

Well I think I've heard Stockport mentioned enough times to last me a lifetime now!.....but the computer still says No

Right this is dragging on now so I will state that this is not a unit of any type, if that helps?

 

[Cowley]

Well I think I've heard Stockport mentioned enough times to last me a lifetime now!.....but the computer still says No

Right this is dragging on now so I will state that this is not a unit of any type, if that helps?

Maybe.
Is it a 67?

 

[RJ21]

I'm thinking Class 57 from the curved roofline and step/grab handle.

 

[Strathclyder]

A Class 47?

 

[Ash Bridge]

Maybe.
Is it a 67?

No.

I'm thinking Class 57 from the curved roofline and step/grab handle.

No.

A Class 47?

No.

Sorry chaps, an additional small clue would be that another class of BR locomotive dating from the 1950s shared one of the same connections with Stockport when they were originally constructed, but by the 1970s this was not so.

 

[Cowley]

Is it a 333?

 

[Ash Bridge]

Is it a 333?

Definitely a locomotive Mr C and a diesel-electric at that, would you like me to remove some of the cropping? The thing is if I do it will then become immediately obvious I'm sure.

 

[Cowley]

No not yet. There can't be too many options left. I'll try a 56 before I go out?

 

[Ash Bridge]

No not yet. There can't be too many options left. I'll try a 56 before I go out?

Sadly it's not a 56, try thinking about the Stockport connection between the two classes I mentioned, it was/is a major component built by the same (former nowadays sadly) manufacturer.

 

[superalbs]

I don't suppose it's a Class 41 HST Prototype is it?

 

[Ash Bridge]

I don't suppose it's a Class 41 HST Prototype is it?

No it isn't I'm afraid superalbs, but as far as I'm aware it shares the same manufacturer regarding its main alternator & traction motors if that's any help?
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[superalbs]

No it isn't I'm afraid superalbs, but as far as I'm aware it shares the same manufacturer regarding its main alternator & traction motors if that's any help?
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So I'm looking for a diesel-electric locomotive, that uses Brush motors, and there is another locomotive that also used Brush components, but by the 1970s, they had been replaced.

Is it a 60?

 

[Ash Bridge]

So I'm looking for a diesel-electric locomotive, that uses Brush motors, and there is another locomotive that also used Brush components, but by the 1970s, they had been replaced.

Is it a 60?

At last!

Well done As well as using Brush components the other locomotive mentioned was actually fitted from new as were the 60s with a major component from another former Hawker Sidderley Group company, by the early 70s if not earlier this was replaced by a unit from another manufacturer so for a bonus point what class of loco was this?

 

[superalbs]

Great!

Here's mine.

 

[A Challenge]

Class 700?

 

[Ash Bridge]

Is it a Virgin East Coast HST trailer car?

 

[superalbs]

Afraid not, neither of them!

 

[A Challenge]

Class 43?

 

[superalbs]

Class 43?

Nope, they don't have interlock lights I am afraid.

 

[RJ21]

Is it a Class 156?

 

[superalbs]

Is it a Class 156?

Nope, similar time period though.

 

[Dhassell]

Class 317?