Best-looking train in the UK?

snookertam · 23 Mar 2019

Class 320s
Class 334s aren't so bad either. Everybody always forgets about them as they only really operate one route.

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HaggisBotherer · 24 Mar 2019

The production Deltics
Bugatti nose P2
Peppercorn A2
King Arthur

mmh said:
Plus... 423 4-VEPs just because I miss them a lot!

Well if drafts and uncomfortable 3 x 2 seating are your thing... o_O

Rail Blues said:
... Deltics and other eary diesels look to me like scaled down American locos to me and look crude and ugly, but without the size and scale of their American cousins to generate a sense of awe.

I can only assume you never witnessed four at a time thundering away at the country end of King's Cross? Awe was probably the most apt word...

Charlie Smythe · 24 Mar 2019

Unpopular opinion incoming.

I think that he Class 143's are actually OK looking units.

TT-ONR-NRN · 25 Mar 2019

Charlie Smythe said:
Unpopular opinion incoming.

I think that he Class 143's are actually OK looking units.

I do too, much nicer than aggressive looking 142s!

jayiscupid · 26 Mar 2019

LOL The Irony said:
I find the front looks like a slipper or an Easter Island statue.

Non Multi said:
I think it's a more streamlined 1990's interpretation of Kenneth Grange's HST. If a diesel-electric version was produced today I would expect SO MUCH JOY from this forum.

The Eurostar 373 power cars were updated from the external design of the Class 93 (The insides were TGV tech). It's covered in the InterCity book.
I've always wondered how good a representation you could get in model form with a Hornby 373 and a MkIV rake (plus filler!)

K.o.R · 28 Mar 2019

Non Multi said:
The never built Class 93. Excluding that, the 332s looked super sleek in plain silver.

That looks suspiciously like a 373/TGV.

Edit: jayiscupid explained why.

hexagon789 · 28 Mar 2019

Charlie Smythe said:
Unpopular opinion incoming.

I think that he Class 143's are actually OK looking units.

I would agree, they look alright, everything else though...

Doomotron · 28 Mar 2019

Charlie Smythe said:
Unpopular opinion incoming.

I think that he Class 143's are actually OK looking units.

I agree, although the tiny carriages and windows does make it look a bit like those bobbleheads you put in cars.

The Prisoner · 28 Mar 2019

Class 50. Large logo. Dark roof. ex-works. Nothing beats it

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