First rolling stock you can remember travelling on?

[Halish Railway]

First train I would have been on would be a 333 (just missed the 308's).
The first that I could remember would be a Class 91 + Mk4's Leeds to Kings Cross pre-mallard refurbishment.

 

[cjmillsnun]

1967 stock in original unrefurbished form in the early 80s. My first ever time on a train was on the Victoria Line. First mainline stock was Mk3 LHCS.

 

[melena]

1st memory of riding on a train was on a miniature train that ran along Bridlington South shore from the caravan park, probably in the early 70's. It was full and i got a ride in the loco which is probably why I remember it. First BR stock was a dmu, either a class 101 or 108.

 

[brel york]

1979 Aged ten got invited to go in cab of an 08 that was about to couple on to a rake it had brought into york from London , I mentioned my great grandad had been an engine driver from 1922 until 1968 , turned out the old boy had worked with him , in his early days , he shut the door and I sat down opposite
He took the rake out past the iron bridge while the loco was released from the bay platform then we took em back in
I was made up for years

 

[xcooler123]

Mine would almost certainly have been an ATW 158 or 175. I also remember going on my first trip down to London on the train in a set of Mk3 coaches run by Wrexham & Shropshire!

 

[Geeves]

Class 504 on the Bury line. Springy seats, slam doors. I might be remembering wrong but I think it was a compartment carriage. Was a while ago!

 

[Firesprite]

I have very, very vague memories of travelling on some Network Southeast stock in the mid 1990s from (I assume) Poole to Wareham to visit the Swanage Railway. I must have only been maybe 3 years old at a push. Still have a photograph of tiny me on the stock with my ticket, which is clearly Mk. 1 or old Mk. 2 outline stock with the big windows - I thought the route was already in the hands of 442s at that point, but maybe it was a drag or a summer loco-hauled service?

You would have been on the all stations stopping service from Waterloo to Wareham and back which used a 4VEP.

As to the first train 4TC and class 33 from Swanage to Waterloo in 68. First train in Oz the 'Glan' on the old route in 74.

 

[physics34]

SR bodied EPBs

 

[mushroomchow]

You would have been on the all stations stopping service from Waterloo to Wareham and back which used a 4VEP.

That'd make sense! Thanks for sleuthing.

Funnily enough, I'm also very fond of the Mk. 1 bodied electric units - though I never saw one again until the very end of their operation when we had a family holiday in the Isle of Wight and got the ferry from Lymington. I do remember being excited when the GCR got itself a 4-VEP for push-pull operation with our 33.

I wonder how much of our affection for certain classes of loco and rolling stock are affected by our formative memories?

 

[davyp]

1951/52 ex LMS non-corridor stock (with long leather window strap) from Davenport to Mayfield behind a Fowler tank. Off to see Father Christmas at Lewis’s.

 

[Shimbleshanks]

As a toddler, compartment stock behind a tank engine on the Amlwch branch, circa 1963. I remember the seat covers pricking the backs of my bare legs. Clouds of steam as we puffed along; sheep; electricity pylons and many other wonders.
Now you can all work out my age...

 

[306024]

The clue is in the user name Many a happy journey on those units.

 

[AlterEgo]

1959 Northern Line stock.

 

[talldave]

Probably something 4EPB-ish from Carshalton Beeches to Wallington. Carshalton Beeches station being memorable to me for an amusing "GAP/STEP THE MIND" warning painted on the Sutton bound platform in later years.

 

[Class455]

For me it was an NSE Class 455/8. These used to be dominant on the Caterham Line until the Class 377's arrived.

 

[83G/84D]

Mk 1 compartment coach on a Penzance to Plymouth local in the early 1980's.

 

[RichJF]

Cig's on the BML in about 1992/3. Just about remember the 205's/207's on the Tonbridge line before EMU's took over!

 

[AM9]

The clue is in the user name Many a happy journey on those units.

Yes, windows rattling, motor drive gears winding up and at about 20mph, the loud knock from the switchgear changing from series to parallel, - sometimes taking 3 or 4 attempts.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Class 504 on the Bury line. Springy seats, slam doors. I might be remembering wrong but I think it was a compartment carriage. Was a while ago!

I only went on them on a couple of occasions, I'm guessing it was about 1972 and I was still at school at the time as was the guy with me who eventually went on to become a driver for Regional Railways NW. My recollection is of travelling in a compartment of the side doors to each seating bay type, identical to those found in the earlier batch of class 304s.

 

[Mag_seven]

Class 303 /Class 311 wrap round windows and all.

 

[Southend Rider]

Class 306, 307, 308 and many happy memory's of trips to Walton on the Naze on the 309s. First new train I ever went on was a 315.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

MK1 - steam hauled Neath to Clifton Down - schools special

 

[Class465fan]

My first rolling stock that I rode on was an unrefurbished NSE 465. Still remember those NSE seat covers.

 

[mike57]

Various SR stuff in the early 60's, 4SUB's with the individual compartments, side corridor compartments (4COR?) on trips to the south coast. Highlights were trips on Brighton Belle and Bournemouth Belle. I found some slides of the Bournemouth trip when I inherited all the family pictures when my mum died. I think the Bournemouth trip was my only main line steam hauled trip until the Northern Tornado hauled trains last year. By the time I started visiting Yorkshire during the school holidays it was Diesel haulage on the Harrogate Pullman. Not sure what the loco's were (about 1966), but the climb up out of Leeds to the Bramhope tunnel seemed to take for ever. I also remember the meals! Proper food on china with real cutlery. Also just remember a trip on Central line out into Essex, standard stock, even then it felt old.

Picture not the best, copied from a badly exposed transparency, Picture just said Bounremouth

 

[djpontrack]

Mk1 stock and class 27's on the West Highland Line in the 1970's. I can still remember the steam from the heating leaking all over the place, inside and out.

 

[3141]

It would be whatever the GWR were using on the Minehead branch during the Second World War. The earliest coach of which I have a specific memory was a GWR clerestory roof coach which was one of three attached at Taunton to a train to London in 1945.

 

[30907]

The earliest I am confident of is an EPB/SUB, Shortlands to Beckenham Jn. It was almost certainly during the London bus strike of 1958, and I was going to school (memory says alone, aged 6 - I was 3using the 227 bus alone by then), but certainly while the line was mechanically signalled.

I can also remember the crawl between Chatham and Gillingham going on holiday, which might have been the same year in steam stock, or a year later in a 2-HAP.

 

[Silver Cobra]

I've only been travelling by train for the last 5-6 years, and only regularly for the last 3, so I haven't had as much experience as most here. Living near to the GN section of the ECML, the first rolling stock I travelled on was a class 365.

 

[Cowley]

Mk1 blue and grey stock pulled by big diesels on the way to visit family in Nottingham in seventies for me.

 

[GusB]

Mk1 stock and class 27's on the West Highland Line in the 1970's. I can still remember the steam from the heating leaking all over the place, inside and out.

I remember visiting the cludgie on a train as a small child and being utterly terrified because of the steam leaks!