47403
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thanks flymo much appreciated.
47403 top post very interesting.
That was indeed a good post; sounded like many of my trips at that time. The pre-bash excitement was unbelievable sometimes, and Carlisle was just about my number one favourite location to watch the railway (very possibly still is).
Only oddity was (apart from your duff fetish, but we've had time to get used to that ) the apparent turning up of nose at 81s and 85s, wanting an 86 instead. This absolutely does not compute!
I also remember when namers were special. When names meant something and nobody would have dreamed of naming something 'BBC Look North' or 'Pedigree Chum' or whatever. Naming multiple units was unheard of (except for NIR's 70 class DEMUS, named after rivers, but these were a bit different as they were used on what passed for Inter City services in 1970s Northern Ireland), and it irritates me to see a (for example) 333 with a painted on 'nameplate' that looks totally out of place. What do the public think that's for I wonder?
Did you admit to your duff fetish in the 1980s BTW? If you had done so on the York scene you would have been torn apart. There was one chap whose favourite loco was the otherwise universally despised 31404, but he only got away with this by being a total psycho would would beat up anyone who said bad things about it.