My favourite classes are:
Past,
20’s on railtours,some even triple headed, doing 85mph down the GSWR on a railtours absolute hellfire.
31’s Birmingham-Ely etc, first trains travelled on my own to Aunt in Newmarket.
37’s on North Wales Coast, railtours, many hellfire runs, lots of thrash.
50’s on railtours,London Waterloo-Exeter etc, loads of high speed runs, good thrash, went to school near top of Lickey Bank, remember them thrashing over the summit.
55’s on railtours, Birmingham-Margate and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Cross country weekend trip, had some horrendous speeds down Shap and beattock due to undereading speedo, great thrash, never got to ride them in service.
56’s on railtours, great thrash, fast and powerful
58’s on railtours, powerful and when pushed fast machines, good thrash.
85’s had couple of trips on them at end of their life, made great noise.
Present
HST’s classic and believe they helped saved our railways, brilliant design.
390’s,just like the tilt, good fun blasting along the WCML, impressive trains.
Future
800-802, apart from hard seats,which i find ok, they seem pretty decent modern trains,and will be my main train down my neck of the woods for the next 20 or so years.
TPE Nova trains, Caledonian sleeper Mk5, ill be interested to see what they are like, they sound good and better than what on offer now,
Reason why not list much Present and future classes of trains is that modern stuff doesn’t have a patch on the past trains, i like trying out new stuff and they nice ride on but they just don’t give excitement the old locos and stock did, you don’t get the buzz when something unusual dropped on to a train, its all rather sterile, which not bad in itself, its just bit all the samey.
