I always preferred 110’s. We had 101, 104, 108 and 111’s on local services round here also but it was always the 110’s for me. Don’t know why.I too loved 101s, particularly the forward view but also the sound etc. And the forward view, it turns out, actually taught me quite well how to drive one when for my 30th birthday I finally realised my dream of having a go!
I’m far from a kid but always liked units as well as everything else.Kids today: voting for a unit. World is finished.
Summing up a scene from my youth at Bradford Exchange (before it was renamed) you could have an HST on a London or Swansea service (sometimes could be in the station together), various local DMU’s, maybe a loco (25, 31, 45 or 47) on mk1’s on a Scarborough and the 03 pilot pottering about. That to me is my pinnacle which is why I’m ok with all kinds of stock.