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« Reply #45 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:21:00 »

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« Reply #46 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:22:07 »

Uh, there is a thread with over 100 pages on fucking cycling don't forget.

And I have contributed to both, what does that make me!
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« Reply #47 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:24:13 »

Yup, a10 John. You WERE the original Michael Jackson...
You know me too well Alan Smiley spot on.
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« Reply #48 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:24:22 »

And I have contributed to both, what does that make me!

On one of these?

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« Reply #49 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:47:27 »

And I have contributed to both, what does that make me!

unsavable! Smiley
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« Reply #50 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:01:35 »

I recall in 62, when this bad boy was being trialed on Western metals...



Known as Lion and numbered D0260, it was a prototype, which eventually wasn't persued BR preferring the class 47.

Well exciting mind....seeing this white thing flash past, the only one of its kind.
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« Reply #51 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:03:19 »

Did you have to put your flask down quick to snap that Reg?
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« Reply #52 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:06:51 »

I recall in 62, when this bad boy was being trialed on Western metals...



Known as Lion and numbered D0260, it was a prototype, which eventually wasn't persued BR preferring the class 47.

Well exciting mind....seeing this white thing flash past, the only one of its kind.
Scrapped 3 years before I was born, shame they didn't believe in preservation of prototype diesels back then such as the Falcon and DP1 and Kestrel etc.
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« Reply #53 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:09:22 »

Known as Lion and numbered D0260, it was a prototype, which eventually wasn't persued BR preferring the class 47.

Loads more info on Lion here: http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_feature_425.php

It's interesting in that BR was in such a rush to replace steam that they had already placed the order for Class 47's before Lion had even been properly trialled. Doomed from the beginning, but what a stunning loco. There was even a proposal to build a replica Lion from a dead Class 47 a few years ago  Cool
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« Reply #54 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:12:07 »

Scrapped 3 years before I was born, shame they didn't believe in preservation of prototype diesels back then such as the Falcon and DP1 and Kestrel etc.

DP1 is preserved at the National Railway Museum at Shildon, John? Love those whiskers!  Too Cool
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« Reply #56 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:15:35 »

Thomas has origins in the E2 Class designed by Lawson Billinton in 1913



You deserved that Audrey  Smug Fuck Off
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« Reply #57 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:19:17 »

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« Reply #58 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:25:33 »

Was always a fan of Steam Engines myself, classics like The Flying Scotsman and The Golden Arrow, but my personal favourite was The Mallard.

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« Reply #59 on: Friday, November 7, 2014, 12:26:07 »

DP1 is preserved at the National Railway Museum at Shildon, John? Love those whiskers!  Too Cool

Presently at the Ribble Steam Railway in Preston unless Thor has got at it!
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