What's your favourite diesel train?

[1369]

Mine is the Class 50.

What is yours?

 

[Halish Railway]

HST (as a complete train). For an individual locomotive I’d go for a Class 68.

My favourite DMU would be the Class 180.

 

[yorksrob]

Thumper 1001:

https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/1001/

It's even got a buffet car !

 

[hexagon789]

Loco - BR 47 or an Irish 071
Trainset - HST
DMU - 156

 

[Ashley Hill]

Loco - Class 20
DMU - Class 101

 

[NYCSubway137]

Class 40 and Class 66.

 

[Whistler40145]

Class 37 then 40s and 50s

 

[Enthusiast]

No contest: Class 55 (Deltics). Runners up: Class 52 (Westerns) Class 42/43 (Warships) and class 50.

For novelty value, class 28 (Metrovicks) and class 14 (Teddy Bears).

 

[Whistler40145]

Definitely not 47s or 66s

 

[Jorge Da Silva]

loco- Class 68
DMU- Class 170

 

[Ash Bridge]

Locomotives: Deltics no contest, closely followed by Westerns & Warships.

Unit: would have to be the Blue Pullman & HST train sets, the latter preferably powered by the original Paxman Valenta power units.

 

[mmh]

The Voyager. Seriously. If you'd told me as a kid I'd have sub three hour trains to London without electrification I'd not have believed a word of it. The word transformational is overused, but they genuinely were.

 

[Fuzzytop]

Class 68. (or HST as a complete trainset)

 

[xotGD]

<----- These

 

[Islineclear3_1]

Valenta HSTs of course - the mother of all diesel startups!

Crompton Parkinson Class 33's

 

[GRALISTAIR]

No contest - Deltics by a mile. Distant second - a Clayton

 

[Ash Bridge]

No contest - Deltics by a mile. Distant second - a Clayton

Excellent taste you have @GRALISTAIR !

 

[43096]

Valenta powered HST by a long way.

Honourable mentions for Classes 14, 37 and 68 in the UK and DB 218s (TB10/11 engines) and Amtrak/Metro-North P32AC-DMs.

 

[SteveM70]

1 - 55
2 - 37
3 - 50

DMU - 110

 

[YorksLad12]

Sorry to sound like a philistine, but I can only go by the ones I've travelled on so...
HST and class 158 for DMUs.

 

[AJM580]

1 - Class 55 Deltic
2 - Class 50
3 - Class 68

DMU - Class 156

 

[Richard Scott]

Nothing like a 50 to ride behind but always had a soft spot for peaks - seeing them as a 4 year old left a great impression!
Got to admit to a bit of a passion for SNCF 72000s too!
If have to add units then thumpers but, did like the noise of a TL11 in the pacers!!!

 

[tramdan]

73/9 hauled test train. Fab traction and no passengers!

 

[Bletchleyite]

InterCity: HST with the original whistling turbochargers
Local: Class 101 DMU, ideally on the Conwy Valley!

 

[Peter Sarf]

No contest: Class 55 (Deltics). Runners up: Class 52 (Westerns) Class 42/43 (Warships) and class 50.

For novelty value, class 28 (Metrovicks) and class 14 (Teddy Bears).

Locomotives: Deltics no contest, closely followed by Westerns & Warships.

Unit: would have to be the Blue Pullman & HST train sets, the latter preferably powered by the original Paxman Valenta power units.

For me it is the class 52 Westerns followed by the Class 55 Deltics. Proud of HSTs and I like Thumpers (well I come from Southern EMU land).

Sadly never saw a Warship (class 42/43) or Hymek (class 35) in action but I do think the Hymeks were possibly the best looking locomotive.

Never a class 50 - just a jumped up 37 !.

 

[route:oxford]

Class 26 or Class 27

I tend to think of them as the same loco (Shocking I know).

Class 156

It's such a likeable unit, in my mind it was the best Metro-Cammell or BR Unit.

Voyager

Many loathe them. But I spent quite some time in the late 90s, early noughties working in the Manchester area. They completely revolutionised my travel. I stopped driving and started taking the train from Scotland instead.

 

[CW2]

Anything with an English Electric power unit.
Deltics
Little Sulzers (class 33 or lower)
Anything with a Maybach power unit.
Further afield, Alco and GM power, the older and noisier the better.
Kolomna diesels

Dislikes:
Big Sulzers.
Anything French (look good, sound rubbish)

 

[py_megapixel]

I generally don't really like diesel traction that much. Massively prefer electric. But if I had to choose...

I'm going to be controversial and say a Class 195. People will say I have no taste but personally I love the swift acceleration and the spacious feel of these units.
After that, possibly an IC125 or a 158.

Other possible contenders are TPE's Mk5 sets and GAs FLIRTS, but I've never been on one so can't comment.

Again, people wil say I have no taste, but I never really liked sprinters other than 158s. They're all too noisy and draughty and they feel knackered, even after refurbishment.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

Anything with an English Electric power unit.
Little Sulzers (class 33 or lower)

Dislikes:
Big Sulzers.

What he said ^

Mine is the Class 50.

Good lad!!!
My first recorded run was behind 50019 and I own a (albeit very small) part of repulse!
Plus with a lifelong link to RO7 I have a special affection for 50035

Add to that the HST, 185 for DMU (Why? Because the best place to be is in the centre cabs of a 6 car hammering through Morley tunnel!) and 411 for EMU where you will find me perched in the Swindon seats above the motors and that’s my collection of faves

 

[hst43102]

HSTs, no question about it at all. Then 37s and 50s.