Inversnecky
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Hope this is the appropriate forum for my meanderings!
It’s certainly a big task catching up with the latest in the world of British railways!
Before my childhood interest faltered and I moved onto other things in the early 1980s, classes 86 and 87 were the height of modern locomotion, and the HST was tantamount to space age technology (ok, a little hyperbole!).
Now after three plus decades away from the subject, there’s been more than a few changes and more than a few more additions since the appearance of class 56 locos which was the latest when I was last following things.
When once upon a time MUs were never seen in my part of the country, and the roost was ruled by 47s, 37s and 25/26/27s, they have become commonplace, all over, and familiarisation with all the various types is desperately required!
Living in a part of rural Scotland many miles indeed from a railway station, I’ve not even been in a train for two decades, so also haven’t had that day to day experience of seeing the changes rung in.
How the wheels of time turn: while my father used to decry diesel locomotives as soulless ‘boxes on wheels’, compared to the LMS steam of his childhood, I felt the same about the often all too similar MUs, compared to which, classics such as the class 37 seem as characterful as any steam engine.
Privatisation has led to a plethora of new liveries, but at heart I’ll always remain a BR blue and grey man!
It’s certainly a big task catching up with the latest in the world of British railways!
Before my childhood interest faltered and I moved onto other things in the early 1980s, classes 86 and 87 were the height of modern locomotion, and the HST was tantamount to space age technology (ok, a little hyperbole!).
Now after three plus decades away from the subject, there’s been more than a few changes and more than a few more additions since the appearance of class 56 locos which was the latest when I was last following things.
When once upon a time MUs were never seen in my part of the country, and the roost was ruled by 47s, 37s and 25/26/27s, they have become commonplace, all over, and familiarisation with all the various types is desperately required!
Living in a part of rural Scotland many miles indeed from a railway station, I’ve not even been in a train for two decades, so also haven’t had that day to day experience of seeing the changes rung in.
How the wheels of time turn: while my father used to decry diesel locomotives as soulless ‘boxes on wheels’, compared to the LMS steam of his childhood, I felt the same about the often all too similar MUs, compared to which, classics such as the class 37 seem as characterful as any steam engine.
Privatisation has led to a plethora of new liveries, but at heart I’ll always remain a BR blue and grey man!