RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 14 minutes ago, great northern said: For today's poll, let's take up Peter's suggestion, and go for Garratt/articulated engines, and spread it worldwide, though of course lots of them were built here. Hmm "articulated" and "worldwide". OK then. Harz Mallet 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 For Garratts, the NSWGR AD60 class. For articulated locos other than Garratts, the Chemin de Fer du Vivarais Mallets. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 LNER U1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2020 19 minutes ago, 31A said: OK then. Harz Mallet Is that Alexisbad, Steve? On our tour a lady was much amused by the place name, having a nephew called Alex! Sachsen IVk for me. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 Just now, Oldddudders said: Is that Alexisbad, Steve? On our tour a lady was much amused by the place name, having a nephew called Alex! Sachsen IVk for me. Yes indeed Ian, Alexisbad it is, in 2007. I think it was on some kind of special, a least we didn't travel behind it, but all the trains on the line were carrying that headboard commemorating 120 years of the Selketalbahn. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 Bendy steam engine...world wide....gotta be an Algerian 231-123 BT streamlined express loco. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Despite the general lack of artics in the UK predisposing one towards one or other of the Big two's creations, I'm actually going to vote for the South African Railways Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4 Built by Beyer Peacock and shipped out to South Africa these were the mainstay of their fleet and hugely efficient engines. We never really had the train sizes, gradients and distances to justify these in the UK, but they did a sterling job in SA and other African countries. If you accuse me of hearkening back to better days then I stand guilty! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERandBR Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 If articulated engines include those of the narrow gauge then I would vote for the Ffestiniog Railway's Double Fairlies. If it's strictly Standard Gauge only then I'd say the U1. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2020 Articulateds are nearly as hard as Pacifics I reckon, the Algerian example mentioned earlier is right up there, Union Pacific Challengers with deflectors in two tone grey, Queensland Railways Garratt, NSWGR AD60s. Ok a choice, South African GEAs, very well proportioned. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnok Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Most elegant articulated loco, and we're allowed to go worldwide? I'm going to have to cheat and nominate two -- one Garratt and one Mallet. First choice: QR Beyer-Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4: Second choice: UP Challenger 4-6-6-4: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold A Murphy Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2020 Merddin Emerys. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 2 hours ago, thegreenhowards said: I had a busy day yesterday, so missed the 2-6-2 poll which is a shame because V2’s are my second favourite steam engines, so if I’m allowed a late vote you can make it 17 for the V2. I didn’t have a strong opinion on the tank as long as it didn’t have copper on the chimney! I like the idea of a diesel vote - you could even make it five votes for Types 1,2,3,4 & 5 to keep the competition going. Andy Thanks Andy. I will do that as of tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2020 I’m going with the LNER U1. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2020 Pond is refilling, and I've checked the first 50 entries on the laptop and found no mistakes yet, so the day is looking up. I think the photographer who is still here despite the late hour must have been Keith Pirt. He always did have a thing about shiny locos. This was done more to show the length of the train, but to get it in I managed to cut a buffer off the loco. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 A Garrat? I would vote for NRZ (Zimbabwe) 20a class. Saw quite a lot of these in Bulawayo in 1989. That was the last time I visited a working steam shed (not a preserved railway shed). They were a bit run down then, as was the coaching stock. I have a photograph of an NRZ coach in rather dirty condition that rejoiced in the name 'Tati'. The public timetable was interesting - it included first aid instructions! It also clearly stated, not that trains would leave and arrive at the times given, but that they would not leave or arrive BEFORE the time given. Mentioning strange timetables reminds me of the New Zealand timetable in 1985, that included a daily train from Wellington to Gisburn. Two days a week it was described as an express - but took an hour longer. Lloyd 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 4 hours ago, great northern said: For today's poll, let's take up Peter's suggestion, and go for Garratt/articulated engines, and spread it worldwide, though of course lots of them were built here. I'm tempted to say Bulleid Leader just to wind folk up..... but my vote goes for: Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie. Elegant and lots of power for it's size. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 Been right through the amended powerpoint sequence now, and to my great relief all appears to be OK. So now I should have only one point of reference for every train movement, whereas up to now there have been as many as nine. This is the problem when things just grow and change over a period of years, I suppose. Trains have changed fiddle yard roads, loco duties have been amended as I acquire more of them, the cassette scheme has grown a great deal, and I already had information in several different places. So the theory is that I can now take the laptop up, plug it in, and have everything I need on one slide. We shall see what happens in practice. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2020 Tea break again. Railway matters are on pause, as I've devoted a lot of time to them lately, but your mid afternoon image was already prepared. Golden Eagle has now backed on, and is ready to depart. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I am going with the NGG16 garratt, ex Alfred County now on the Welsh Highland. So good they should have won the 2-6-2 poll twice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Totally agree with Trevor Page so it's :- Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie. Elegant and lots of power for it's size. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 I’m not an expert on Garratts, but I’ll go for the Welsh Highland ones as I really enjoyed my trip behind one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2020 I've found one more image of 61666, so might as well use it. and then we do come to SIlver King on the Talisman, which means that tthere was perhaps some slight excuse for my recent confusion. Only slight though. The lack of a headboard on Wild Swan should have told me something for a start. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 G'Day Folks I was lucky in living in South Australia in the 1960's, steam was still working, the narrow gauge line from Port Pirie to Broken Hill (about 400k's) was mostly steam worked by 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratts which I managed to photograph over a couple of years, these 400 class locos, were built in Belgium. manna 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Definitely the South Australian 400 Class for me. As much as I like the U1 (and my DJH model) I think garratts looks so much better with curved front and rear units. I think the 400 class was the same as the East African Railways 60 class. Here's the preserved 409 at the Australian National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide and also an old photo of the class leader No 400 at Port Pirie in 1969 taken when I was 13 . Andrew 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Woodcock29 said: Definitely the South Australian 400 Class for me. As much as I like the U1 (and my DJH model) I think garratts looks so much better with curved front and rear units. I think the 400 class was the same as the East African Railways 60 class. Here's the preserved 409 at the Australian National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide and also an old photo of the class leader No 400 at Port Pirie in 1969 taken when I was 13 . Andrew rtars rage same loco in all but minor details (ok gauge is different ) as the SAR one I suggested. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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