The Million Numbers site

[Ivo]

I've noticed that quite a few on here have "bought" at least one number from the site millionnumbers.com, and having had a look at two numbers I might be interested I have noticed that one of them was available, and thus I can claim to be the "owner" of the former c2c Green Train, 357010.

This is my first foray into this "market". How many others of you have done such a thing? I appreciate that they are listed in some members' signatures, but I thought it might be interesting to get a physical discussion going and to see what prompted people to buy these.

 

[Eagle]

The one in my signature's a joke, of course, but a while back, I took 50043.

(Guess why; hint: it's not to do with the fact that the first train I ever went on was a NSE/SWT 50+Mk2 between Tisbury and London Waterloo.)

 

[Lampshade]

I own 156468 - it kept stalking me around Manchester hock:

 

[Tracked]

oh, might as well

http://millionnumbers.com/number/47517/

 

[Crossover]

I guess I did it just following a few others I had seen and also because of a friend who had units "of theirs"

I got 390054 first, quite a bit before the others and didn't put it on here at the time, just to "own" a Pendolino before someone else got it (it was before 054 was even in the country)

220030 haunted me for quite some time and has a habit of popping up in various places (although less so now I am further from the area served by them, though it still made an appearance in York a few months back.

185111 cropped up by sight and for travel a couple of times within a short space of time but I also like it because it is all the 1's :P

 

[Schnellzug]

I'd wondered what it meant. I thought maybe they were locos or units that you'd achieved a certain mileage on, or something.

 

[AlterEgo]

I don't see the attraction myself, but each unto their own. It's a very good business idea though!

 

[Minilad]

87022 As it was my 87 Machine
220007 As it was the first Voyager I drove (Central Rivers - New Street)

 

[scotsman]

I "own" a few, can't remember which ones - so I "bought" this

 

[Ivo]

Just bought 5403: My all time favourite bus (Leyland Olympian H263 GEV), as previously registered to the company I do not like.

 

[90019]

I own the ones in my signature along with 322481-485.

 

[CarterUSM]

I've got 318254 and a 322 one that I can't remember, maybe a 156 one too.

 

[BlythPower]

Just popped onto MillionNumbers now and at the top, the 'recently sold' number was 380106. Gone to some character called CarterUSM, apparently...

I've got 47401, 55008, 56076 and 56134. MillionNumbers was the big craze when I first joined RailUK.

 

[GearJammer]

Do you actually 'buy' these numbers, i mean with cash, or do you just claim them?

 

[Minilad]

You just claim them

 

[Schnellzug]

Do you actually 'buy' these numbers, i mean with cash, or do you just claim them?

What it says on "About":

Million Numbers, established in the Spring of 2007, aims to be the premier number supplier to those in need of the freshest, most outstanding numbers in the world. There is a stiff market for numbers in the world today, with some manufacturers selling their products for over $2000, and a resellers' market of as much as $5000!

Well, we at Million Numbers are saying "Enough is enough!" We're entering the market with the lowest prices in town: $0. That's right — absolutely free, zilch, zippo, nada, nothing, zero-money-down and no payments until you feel liking giving us some money. It's taken many seconds of grueling, stressful, highly-complex research and development, but our engineers have successfully developed highly efficient computer algorithms that produced for us the numbers 1 through 1,000,000 — and we're just giving them away!

I did "buy" one, but I forget how you get back to it to link to it.

 

[CarterUSM]

Just popped onto MillionNumbers now and at the top, the 'recently sold' number was 380106. Gone to some character called CarterUSM, apparently...

Ha ha, rumbled!

 

[district]

171126 is my number!

 

[gnolife]

I've got 323234 (the rolly blind one ) and 185001
SOmeone called Carl took 323235, which I really wanted , and knew which 323 it is

 

[Ivo]

There is a guy named 323235 on this forum; maybe it's the same person?

 

[David Goddard]

Ive just bought 150103, as it was the first unit that I officially kopped, when I started collecting numbers 1987.

 

[Lampshade]

I just tried to buy the whole 458 fleet, someone else has got 458001. I couldn't just buy the SR designations 8001-8030 either because someone's nabbed 8001

 

[Mike395]

I've got 395002 - the first 395 I ever travelled on! :P

 

[MidnightFlyer]

For reasons I'm not quite sure of, I've just invested in 60495

 

[Tomonthetrain]

I've gone turbo - http://millionnumbers.com/number/172331/

 

[bb21]

I've got 318254 and a 322 one that I can't remember, maybe a 156 one too.

Not possible, as he owns the lot.

I own the ones in my signature along with 322481-485.

The carriage numbers of the two I own explain themselves.

 

[CarterUSM]

That's right, I remember now, I couldn't get a 322 one, so I just plumped for a 318, not even sure if I have a 156 at all.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mine is 51218, as this is a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 0-4-0 "Pug" that is awaiting restoration and overhaul at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

 

[HST Power]

All my numbers are from the 365 Networkers named by FCC.