were is it now??

[sprinterguy]

It looks like an HST that's been left too close to the fire and the front has melted...

It's funny that you say that, as some drawings that I've seen for the electric HST variant that was being developed in the mid eighties looked remarkably similar to the final form of the class 89. I think that when that project was dropped, a lot of the styling developments were carried over to the class 89, or it seems that way at least.

 

[gg1]

Ugly? No - look at images of a "Fell" :cry:

Agreed, it was definitely hit with ugly stick:



I've always liked the 89, far better looking than the bland 90s and 91s.

 

[doubleamber]

Don't think it is ugly.

Wasn't it called badger also?

Did see it once (at Euston),didn't get a pic.:-x

good photo.

 

[Helvellyn]

89001 could have looked like this: -

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Artists%20impressions/89Proposed.jpg


I always think she looked better in Intercity 'Swallow' livery rather than 'Executive' livery: -

http://www.johndarm.clara.net/Resources/90Leeds89.jpg

 

[route:oxford]

I do like the 89, although it looks a bit "sad".

Could someone clarify...

Does a Co-Co arrangement cause greater damage to the track than a Bo-Bo? I'd always understood that the load was spread over a greater area causing less damage.

 

[Ploughman]

I remember seeing it being built at Crewe when I had to pick some gear up.
Was given a tour around the workshop where it was being built. I think alongside the 90s.

 

[sprinterguy]

I do like the 89, although it looks a bit "sad".

Could someone clarify...

Does a Co-Co arrangement cause greater damage to the track than a Bo-Bo? I'd always understood that the load was spread over a greater area causing less damage.

There's not only the axle weights to consider though, there's also the interaction between the wheels and the rail. It was explained in great technical detail some time in the past, but I can't remember the details.

 

[Tracked]

Saw it yesterday at Barrow Hill

 

[zn1]

89001 - the badger was a wonderful bit of kit that was never exploited fully she had plenty of potential that was never exploited fully, the badgers excellent pulling power was exploited and incorporated in to the channel tunnel tractors.

as for ugly -she has wonderful lines, and looks much better than those boxy 87/2's !! sorry i mean skodas, sorry i mean 90's !!

 

[colchesterken]

Ugly things seem to grow on me.I thought the Ford Anglia was ugly with the funny back window but grew to like it
The more I see of the cl 70 s on the GEML the more I admire them
If anyone wants to see a Q1 the Bluebell are rebuilding theirs will be able to sneek a look in the workshop at Sheffield Park guess it will be another year at least before it goes back in service

 

[Smudger105e]

Ugly things seem to grow on me.I thought the Ford Anglia was ugly with the funny back window but grew to like it
The more I see of the cl 70 s on the GEML the more I admire them
If anyone wants to see a Q1 the Bluebell are rebuilding theirs will be able to sneek a look in the workshop at Sheffield Park guess it will be another year at least before it goes back in service

I own three Ford Anglia's

 

[Waldgrun]

Ugly things seem to grow on me.I thought the Ford Anglia was ugly with the funny back window but grew to like it
The more I see of the cl 70 s on the GEML the more I admire them
If anyone wants to see a Q1 the Bluebell are rebuilding theirs will be able to sneek a look in the workshop at Sheffield Park guess it will be another year at least before it goes back in service

Sorry colchesterken but it's a Q class on the Bluebell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Q_class, sad to say only one of each type survived.