The Decapod
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With all their lumps and bumps - how about 'Warthog' ? Or has that name been taken for another class?
I'm not really keen on the nickname idea, but for yoursake and everybody elses' who cares about the nicknames here are a few I've heard...
"Duck", "Bull Dog" and "Land Rover"
I honestly do not know how they got some of the above nicknames for this loco...
Please don't give them a nickname, and preferably stop using the nicknames for everything else, its stupid.
How about "seventies".
^^What he said^^
Modern nicknames are generally useless, as they aren't "common" (e.g. everyone back in the day knew what a "Peak" was, but a "Skoda" means nothing to me)
The only decent one in the modern era was Dusty Bin for the 321s
I've heard 2 so far
Betties
and
Cylons - a reference to Battlestar Galactica apparently
Funny the way that some classes were almost exclusively referred to by their nicknames, whilst others by their class number or builder/type.
I don't think I ever heard 'there's a class 52 on.....'
While if there was a pair of 20s on a train....a whole multitude of different phrases could be heard ..bombs, choppers (the commonest 2), chubblies, wardrobes....
Erm, weren't they Type 1s? But otherwise, I agree - silly names are silly!Bombs?? Chubblies??? Do the enthusiasts that use these phrases WANT to be made fun of and called anoraks?? Its a class 20, or English Electric type 2.
Erm, weren't they Type 1s? But otherwise, I agree - silly names are silly!
(EE Type 2s were the "Baby Deltics")
So presumably we shouldn't call the original Volkswagen car a Beetle !!!The only names you'll hear me use that arn't their TOPS number are 'Warship', 'Western', 'Hymek' and 'Deltic'.
So presumably we shouldn't call the original Volkswagen car a Beetle !!!