Train Nicknames...

[heart-of-wessex]

A couple I made up myself are:

Class 455 - Box Machine (because of it being a basic box with a motor)
Class 317 - High Speed Box (A rather fast EMU for a box!)


One thing I don't understand though, why does the VT 57s get called Ronnie's as well? I've seen somewhere saying its a Ronnie, thought its a normal VT 57/3...



Cheers,

James.

 

[me123]

^ If that's the case, I have a few for class 320s. But I can't really repeat them on a public forum...

 

[LilLoaf]

They have been mentioned, LilLoaf.

Apparently '323's are known as "Badgers", anybody care to elaborate on the meaning?

I thought the 323's were called Darlics, no really sure why, something to do with the way they sound.

 

[Aureol]

Why should modern traction have it all?

LNER/BR Class A4 - Streak

SR class Q1 -Spam Can

No mate, Q1s are called 'Coffee Pots', Spam Cans are the unrebuilt Bulleid Pacifics like 34067 Tangmere etc.

LMS Princess Coronation - Big Lizzies, Semis (from when they were unstreamlined but still had sloping smokeboxes), Duchesses, Coronations

LMS Princess Royal - Lizzies, Princess

Anything 0-4-0 and saddle-tank - p!$$pots

 

[David]

24/5/6/7: Rat

Really only 25s were called Rats, as there was so many of them, the 24s, 26s and 27s weren't so widespread. The 26s and 27s are McCromptons. Never really got the point of class 26s, why not build more 27s, or uprate the 26s??

The 26s and 27s were called McRats, as they were the Scottish versions of the 24s and 25s.

And the reason they are called rats is because there was hundreds of them, and they got everywhere!

 

[87015]

The 26s and 27s were called McRats, as they were the Scottish versions of the 24s and 25s.

And the reason they are called rats is because there was hundreds of them, and they got everywhere!

McRat is a nasty Ned News nickname!! 24s went too early for most to have known them as mega common I guess.

Ones I use often are:
14 - ted
20 - wheelchair/wardrobe/bomb
25 - rat
31 - goyle/ped
37 - syphon
40 - bucket
47 - duff/spoon/spoon menace
50 - dob
56 - grid

86 - rancid can (only really 86'1 or 86'2, not so anti- '4s and '6s)
90 - skoda/general abuse

390 - whatever is the current swear word of choice!!!

 

[GNERman]

89-Badger
153-Skateboard
91-Electra
150-Sprinter
156-Super Sprinter

 

[EM2]

I know COR/GRI/RES/BUF were Nelsons and 442/444/460 are Wessies/Arkwrights/Vaders but what about all the other SR units? Apart from the DEMUs, did any others get nicknames, or were they just BILs, REPs, HAPs, CIGs etc?

 

[The Snap]

20 - Chibble
37/9 - Slug
44/45/46 - 40 driven into a wall

 

[33056]

Austrian class 1044/1144: "Alpine hairdryer" and "Austrian vac(uum cleaner)" - due to the noise of the cooling fans.

Some UK cranks call these "howling gales".

Some other foreign loco nicknames
Austria, 1016/1116 = "Doh-Ray-Me"
Germany, 218 = "Rabbit", 212 = "Coathanger"
Czech Republic, 749 = "Grumpy"

 

[O L Leigh]

Can't believe you've all missed a few.

Cl20: Queers (always going around in pairs).
Cl31: Brians (boring, also Brian the Snail from Magic Roundabout). Gary's (same derivation as Goyle - Ugly - Gargoyle - Gary Goyle - Gary or Goyle).
Cl60: Politician (can see right through them).
Cl91: Dung Beetle (from the apparent likeness to the said insect caused by the high pan).
Cl92: Electro-Tug (electric Cl60).
C153: Mini-Cab (size of small-end cab plus the number of seats available).
Cl319: Bi's (from bi-sexual, because they are AC/DC).
Cl360: Doodlebug (send across to London by the Germans and prone to going "bang"). U-Boat (German in origin and prone to sinking in service).

O L Leigh

 

[P156KWJ]

Loads for class 20s (if not mentioned already): Queers (as said in last post), rollerskates (for the same reason), razor blades, whistling wardrobes, H-Bombs, wheelchairs, Moose (especially when running non-cab end first), choppers...

 

[Chilled Phill]

I thought the 323's were called Darlics, no really sure why, something to do with the way they sound.

Well, it's a better nickname than "badger", anyway.

 

[507 001]

class 153- scuds?

 

[90019]

class 153- scuds?

I'm sure someone was saying that's the 150s, or maybe that's just me :???:

 

[O L Leigh]

Cl153's were the original Scuds because of their resemblance to the Scud missile's mobile launch vehicle, their generally cheap design and their (in)ability to hit the target. However, the name seems to have spread and is now generally applied more widely to almost any unpopular class of train.

O L Leigh

 

[Phoenix]

I have also come up with a few through the last last year and they are.

92's = blowers (because of the overwhelming sounds coming from the loco)
323's = Caterpillars (because of their former livery)
390's = Bendolinios
321's = yawners (I swear they yawn out of stations makes me yawn great units though)

 

[Waverley125]

A3s: Horses
A4s: Streaks
Standard 7s: Brits
Ivatts: Mickey Mouse
LMS Class 5: Black 5
Unrebuilt bulleid pacifics: Spam Cans
Q1s: Coffee Pots
35s: Hymeks
55s: Deltics
52s: Westerns
42s: Warships
50s: Battleships
08s: Gronks
14s: Teddy Bears
25s: Rats
23s: Baby Deltics
Pacers: Nodding Donkeys
40s: Whistlers
37s: Tractors

 

[heart-of-wessex]

Cl153's were the original Scuds because of their resemblance to the Scud missile's mobile launch vehicle, their generally cheap design and their (in)ability to hit the target. However, the name seems to have spread and is now generally applied more widely to almost any unpopular class of train.

O L Leigh

Apparently in the magazine I have with the nicknames, it said 158s were scuds after these Iraq bombs, which were apparently unreliable, as was the 158s when they entered service.


I've no idea what they were like, but that's what it says...

 

[ungreat]

03/08/09-pilots
20-Tits
40-Whistlers
44,45,46-Peaks
47-spoons
50-Hoovers
58-Bones
60-Piece of ****(well,when we had them on test at Leicester in the late 80's anyway!)
66-Ying Ying
Old DMU's-Bogs
365-Milk floats

 

[David]

153 - V1 Flying Bomb. Your fine while the engine is running, but as soon as it cuts out, that's when you worry !!!!

 

[37427]

390 - Dildos
66 - American ****e
47s - Spooooooooon

Well thats what I call them anyway...

 

[33011]

Southern DEMU -Thumpers

4 reps - Southern Deltics

 

[AlexS]

Cl153's were the original Scuds because of their resemblance to the Scud missile's mobile launch vehicle, their generally cheap design and their (in)ability to hit the target. However, the name seems to have spread and is now generally applied more widely to almost any unpopular class of train.

O L Leigh

I think you'll find 150001 is, and always has been, The Scud!

 

[90019]

I think you'll find 150001 is, and always has been, The Scud!

That's what i was thinking of!

 

[Juniper Driver]

Class 458=Microwaves?

 

[TG]

153: Skateboard
150: Furnace
142/144: Tonka Toy Train

 

[The_Rail_WAy]

Class 02 - Tug
Class 08 - Grafter
Class 14 - Yank
Class 24 - Postman
Class 20 - Chopper
Class 37 - Tractor or 'Hardman'
Class 41 - U.R.O
Class 55 - Bull
Class 87 - Batchelor
Class 89 - Badger
Class 91 - Maverick
142 - 'Cattle Rattler'
220 (Voyager) - **** Tin
390 (Pendolino) - Wasp

 

[TG]

Maverick the nickname given to 158851

 

[John_158]

390 (Pendolino) - Wasp Don't Understand thus one but they do remind me of a P****S if you look at th shape of the front carefully you will know what i mean.

http://www.railwayphotos.fotopic.net/p54506729.html

Arn't 158s know as flying Coffins becuse of there shape at the front !

I call Merseyrail 507/508s Old Bangers Becuse they are allways Braking Down !