Sad Sprinter
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Bit of a whimsical thread, but do you have a train that takes you back to being 8 or 9 years old on the station platform again? For me, its an NSE livered class 455/1-ambling miserably through South London.
Intercity 225 sets, as these were seen as the train of the future when I was born and in my childhood and it is one of the first train sets I had. Possibly Eurostar too, I still find it amusing that my first ride on such an exotic seeming train was Leeds-Doncaster.
As I got a little older and started getting out onto the rails it would be classes 156/158 and 144’s plus 47/86/87/90 in Virgin Red or MML/Virgin/GNER HST’s and EWS freight locos.
In all BR Blue.Class 115 Derby 4-car DMUs
Before I began spotting at age 10, I'd watched the trains passing through Padgate station from the road bridge over the railway.
It's the Irish Mail or one of its reliefs for me to. Standing at Euston or Holyhead en route or retuning from a summer spent in Ireland back in the late 50s and early 60s. First the excitement of steam and then the introduction of modern electrics and the replacement of clickity clack with the smooth running of welded rail.My fondest memories were standing on the footbridge over Prestatyn station with my brother back in the 1960s waiting for The Irish Mail to thunder through.
In those days we saw a variety of locomotives working the service including Coronations an Britannias.
If "The Mail" was running late word was they used to make up time on the North Wales section.
A Merseyrail 507/508 in blue and grey, I guess.
Essentially the same here, except for the nature of the journey (my grandparents lived a mile up the road). CIG/BIG/VEP stock in blue/grey livery with blue/green checkered upholstery and lightbulbs plugged into the ceiling. Long gone.I suppose at that age (8-9 years and before) it would have been an unrefurbished VEP taking me to visit my gran in Tonbridge.
Essentially the same here, except for the nature of the journey (my grandparents lived a mile up the road). CIG/BIG/VEP stock in blue/grey livery with blue/green checkered upholstery and lightbulbs plugged into the ceiling. Long gone.