ALL the known Loco and Multiple unit nicknames

[physics34]

Are Turbostars nicknamed "Flymos", because of the cooling fan sound?? Think ive heard that somewhere...

 

[Strathclyder]

Are Turbostars nicknamed "Flymos", because of the cooling fan sound?? Think ive heard that somewhere...

I call the Turbostars 'Howlers' sometimes. The 170s are particularly loud:
http://youtu.be/AUvw3aqSHzM?t=2m17s

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Are Turbostars nicknamed "Flymos", because of the cooling fan sound?? Think ive heard that somewhere...

It's the shape of the front end.


Incidentally, slightly off topic but one from a few years ago:

MGR train = Robbies. ( Coal train... geddit? )

 

[physics34]

I call the Turbostars 'Howlers' sometimes. The 170s are particularly loud:
http://youtu.be/AUvw3aqSHzM?t=2m17s

Ha ha, yeah thats the fans going like the clappers. 171726 had a coach that was really loud like that for a while, but theyve obviously sorted it now Occasional you get other 171s (i sign them) as loud as that! In hot weather they are louder.

 

[Strathclyder]

Ha ha, yeah thats the fans going like the clappers. 171726 had a coach that was really loud like that for a while, but theyve obviously sorted it now Occasional you get other 171s (i sign them) as loud as that! In hot weather they are louder.

They can be pretty loud when climbing out of Glasgow Queen St towards Cowlairs Junction. The 170/3s seem to be the loudest, though.

 

[zn1]

didn't the Turbostars get the nickname DEATHSTARS for a while...due to their doors opening up at speed ??

personally the end of the darths was a sad day....

 

[LM 170]

We'll these are my nick names for some of the DMUs

Class 143/144 - (Bathtubs) because of their wide body's.

Class 150/0, 150/1 - (Solid fronts) because their solid at each end.

 

[Beveridges]

They can be pretty loud when climbing out of Glasgow Queen St towards Cowlairs Junction. The 170/3s seem to be the loudest, though.

Not really loud when your used to class 150s though are they?


150s have got to be the loudest trains on the network.

 

[bussnapperwm]

NMT aka Flying Banana
442s I've heard called Bacon, wessies (a play on nessie!) or Pigs
220s Vomiters
221s Super Vomiters
365s Smilers
460/458 refurbs - Darth Vaders

 

[TDK]

I think the Gatwick Express units, I don't know the class as I aint a spotter were called Darth Vaders due to the nose cones on them, EPB's so I learnt when at Selhurst meant every person bounces, the 400 series were know as 63's or slammers, 09's were known as humpies. 33's were cromptons I dunno any more, these names were given to the trains by the drivers though.

 

[noddingdonkey]

Pendolino = Caravan

Due to the amount of time they spent being towed away from the wires

 

[wbbminerals]

Apoligies if these have already been done. Some silly nicknames include:

Class 60: Tug
Class 70: Domino (from the lights), Toaster (from setting themselves on fire).
Class 153: Dogbox, Skateboard

 

[Strathclyder]

Class 153: Dogbox, Skateboard

I'm sure I've heard someone call 153s 'Lunchboxes' before. It's certainly an appropriate nickname for them.

 

[Nevillehill]

142 - basic railbus

Nodding Donkies..
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I'm sure I've heard someone call 153s 'Lunchboxes' before. It's certainly an appropriate nickname.

Tardis
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158s minges

Becouse the front corridor is like a fat barnsley womens minge, well that big lol

 

[muddythefish]

English Electric Type 4s (Class 40s) were always known as Leckies in our area.
Class 47s were Brush 4s.
Class 44/45/46 were called Peaks with a sub-class known as Cromptons.

 

[Juniper Driver]

444s are sometimes referred to as Arkwrights...

 

[Bevan Price]

"Fridge" - non-boilered Class 47 on passenger train in winter.

 

[Parallel]

A few units.

142+143+144: Nodding Donkey

I wondered why they were called this, and then I saw a FGW 6 car Pacer leaving Newton Abbot and all the carriages were... err... nodding.

 

[Strat-tastic]

English Electric Type 4s (Class 40s) were always known as Leckies in our area.

Which area would that be?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Class 44/45/46 were called Peaks with a sub-class known as Cromptons.

Cromptons were the 33s, surely?

 

[Whistler40145]

I always thought Class 33s were Cromptons or Shredders.

Classes 44-46 were Peaks

 

[Minilad]

44-46 are mostly known as Peaks or wagons to enthusiasts but railwaymen tend to call them Cromptons

 

[HSTEd]

Southern Region slang is different to rest-of-BR slang.

The Thrifty SR - gone but not forgotten.

 

[Warbonnet]

Someone earlier referred to 31s being nicknamed 'Toffee Apples', but I always thought that referred only to handful of the class that didn't have headcode boxes above the front windows.

Another I remember from a while back is (for obvious reasons) 'Linfords' for 150s.

The Toffee Apples were the small sub class of 31/0's that were built as pilot scheme loco's for the rest of the standard class. They were equipped with a power handle that looked like a toffee apple apparently!
Also the unique electro magnetic coupling code was a red circle, maybe that was the reason for the name aswell.

The name Deltic was also the Greek word for triangle which ofcourse was the shape of the apposed piston engines used.
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Cromptons were the 33s, surely?

That may have been because the 44's and 45's used Crompton Parkinson electrical machines where as the 46's used Brush motors and gennies.
But yes, I always associated the Crompton's with 33's.