First rolling stock you can remember travelling on?

[6Gman]

Steam-hauled non-corridor stock to Amlwch.

That dates me!

The heater switch was a substantial lever on the bulkhead; we had great fun using it as a surrogate regulator.

 

[MK Tom]

117s and 121s on the Marston Vale Line.

 

[NorthernSpirit]

Class 308 on the Airedale Line.

 

[185143]

First train I can remember is a Northern Spirit 156 when I was about 4.

 

[delt1c]

101 Edinburgh Waverly to Dunfermline, closely followed by 107 from St Enochs to Stevenson ( one of the final workings). Also remember an 8F on an engineering train at Saltcoats around the same time

 

[DidcotDickie]

Ex-GWR buffet car on Cardiff to Padd steam hauled express in late 1950s. Loco was probably a Castle
Ex LMS (and later ex-LNER) non-corridor stock on the LT&S hauled by 2-6-4 tanks during late 50s and early 60s. Also had a run from Upminster to Thorpe Bay behind a Brush Type 2 (became class 31) on a rake of ex-LNER Thompson non-corridor stock. This was just before the AM2/class 302s took over.
What became the AM6/306 in their original 1500V DC mode between Romford and Brentwood
Met-Camm DMUs on Romford to Upminster branch. Also travelled on a Derby Lightweight DMU from Norwich to Sheringham and back in the early 60s.
R and CO/CP stock on the District Line. I also travelled on what I think was the Q stock - really ancient even in the 1950s as the coaches had clerestory roofs.

 

[waynemorrell]

Southern region 421/423 ect, always remember the different interior on the 411 on one of the Kent lines.

 

[hooverboy]

class 45 and mk1's out of st pancras! wonderful.

used to be such a nice mix of motive power. usually 45's or 47's but occasionally you'd get a treat.
maybe 2* 25's
maybe a 31
maybe a 37
maybe a 40

if you were really unlucky then it was the old 127's with slammers all the way down,stopping every station with no gangway(hence no toilet) between carriages,everybody smoking like chimneys,and the distinctive farting sound from the exhaust!

 

[466.networkers]

My earliest train memory was from 1998 and a Connex South Eastern Class 508/2.

 

[1018509]

Great Western suburban, maroon, non corridor stock, 4 coaches pulled by 4XXX pannier tank or occasionally a (wonderful) prairie.

Standard stock from Rayners Lane on the Piccadilly Line and that huge step down into the train for a five year old.

Also F stock (with the big oval windows at the front) from Uxbridge on occasions.

 

[Cricketer8for9]

Thought there must have been earlier ones on the Southern Electric the earliest memory is of Mk 1 stock in April 1974 on the Southampton Boat Train before getting the MV Aureol to Sierra Leone. Memory is of the ride being less than smooth, which must have been something given trips to London from Croydon would have involved Mk 1 emus into Victoria and they certainly weren’t smooth either.

 

[theageofthetra]

My earliest is aged about 3/4- certainly before I started school in the early 70's on what I later found out to be a Picasso railcar in Britanny. I can remember being confused as to why the driver sat so high up and it didn't look like anything in my 'Thomas' books. Can also remember going round some old station yard and being equally confused as to why a discarded Mallet tank had an extra set of cylinders in the middle.

 

[Oldrowley]

The memory's a bit fuzzy on this subject but I do remember telling Mr Huskisson to stay in his seat when the train stopped but he knew better and got walloped by a rocket or something!

 

[SwindonBert]

I don't remember before HSTs, but I would have travelled on something before them - whatever they replaced on the GWML between Swindon & London, but don't remember them

 

[AM9]

I don't remember before HSTs, but I would have travelled on something before them - whatever they replaced on the GWML between Swindon & London, but don't remember them

Class 42 or 52 pulling MKII (non-ac) LHCS?

 

[SwindonBert]

Class 42 or 52 pulling MKII (non-ac) LHCS?

Looking at the timelines of when they were cut up, more likely a 52

 

[Ash Bridge]

I don't remember before HSTs, but I would have travelled on something before them - whatever they replaced on the GWML between Swindon & London, but don't remember them

This is what I travelled to/from Paddington-Swindon by on a visit to Swindon Works during April 1973, there were also several class 52s that flashed through non-stop on IC expresses that day too.

 

[Tetchytyke]

These:

 

[LLivery]

The HSTs on the MML. They pass the hospital I was born in, the old workplace of a family member, the house I've lived in, a flat I've lived in and taken me to Uni.

 

[billio]

A trip on the Holcombe Brook branch when it was steam operated, probably in 1952 just before it closed. I would be 5. I have a dim recollection that it was not a normal compartment carriage, more like a saloon. I had probably been on a Bury electric before that but I cannot remember a journey. In later years I could never understand why the train indicator boards at Victoria could show Holcombe Brook as a destination for an electric train. I know now.

 

[LOL The Irony]

An ex-FNW 150 back in 2005.

 

[Cowley]

This is what I travelled to/from Paddington-Swindon by on a visit to Swindon Works during April 1973, there were also several class 52s that flashed through non-stop on IC expresses that day too.

What an excellent photo and really interesting to see that building going up in the background.
D1753 became 47491 Horwich Enterprise which broke down on me going up Dainton Bank in the 80s

 

[Foggycorner]

Give us a clue AT what are they and in what place but I like yellow green paint job

 

[waynemorrell]

Give us a clue AT what are they and in what place but I like yellow green paint job

Hitachi trains in Australia ?

 

[Edgeley]

Class 104 DMUs on the Buxton line: three carriages and the distinctive white cab roof. Usually the drivers would leave the cab blinds up so it was possible to sit behind and have a good view. Luxury compared to a present-day class 150.

 

[theageofthetra]

These:

Melbs? Heading towards Newport/Williamstown

 

[Strathclyder]

On a Dumbarton Central - Balloch service & Balloch - Singer return in the summer of 2002. Can still vividly remember the 314-esque interior & tatty Strathclyde Red/Black livery, over 15 years later...

 

[High Dyke]

Deltic on the ECML, Grandad was a mainline driver on them. Otherwise a Derby heavyweight (Cl.114) or Cravens (Cl.105) DMU on local services. We also had a mixture of Class 31, 37 or 47 on loco hauled trains.

 

[Tetchytyke]

Melbs?

Yep, remember getting them into Melbourne from Dandenong as a kid. Dunno where that photo is taken though, it was lifted off Wikipedia

 

[apk55]

The old MSJ&A 1931 electrics on the Altrincham line. Many jerks and away they would still give the replacement metrolink trams a good challenge!