RMweb Premium SJR Posted January 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2021 Ottery St Mary for me please. My fathers family came from there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted January 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2021 My formative years were spent on holiday at Woolacombe (well Rockham Bay to be precise), so I’ll vote for 34044. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 One of my earliest summer holiday memories is going to the Swanage Railway for the first time and being hauled by Eddystone so I'll go for 34028. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 23, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 There is a short lull in main line traffic now, which allows another Ivatt to come in from Kings Lynn. Rather a clean one too, mind you it is a South Lynn engine, not New England. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Blimey mate. Wot aircraft? You can have both by the way. P 12 hours ago, great northern said: You will have the choice. It is WCs today only. Oops, misread the instructions - I only saw Light Pacifics. So Trevone this time please. @Clive Mortimore Dad was only in the RAF towards the end of the war. He trained in Southern Rhodesia and converted to Spitfires and Tempests. I don't think he saw active service, although he nearly managed to kill himself when he landed a Spitfire upside-down (to be precise, he landed the right way up but a tyre burst so it groundlooped and turned over). Edited January 23, 2021 by St Enodoc 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2021 For me in this poll, after much thought, I’m also going with Westward Ho!. Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2021 Another monochrome morning, as Doncaster arrives with the 1040 KX-Grantham stopper. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Salisbury for me. An air smoothed example that had a run up the ex GC London Extension to Nottinghan Vic and which I have a model of. Despite being a die hard LNER modeller I've always liked the Bulleid pacifics. Andrew 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2021 25 votes in the West Country poll, which I think may be a record. 18 different names put forward, the winner being Wesward Ho! with 5. And so to Battle of Britain names. In order to curry favour with my ducky chum, we will split this into original and rebuilt, which may also make you think a little more. Today then it is the best Battle of Britain name in original Bulleid condition. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 18 minutes ago, great northern said: 25 votes in the West Country poll, which I think may be a record. 18 different names put forward, the winner being Wesward Ho! with 5. And so to Battle of Britain names. In order to curry favour with my ducky chum, we will split this into original and rebuilt, which may also make you think a little more. Today then it is the best Battle of Britain name in original Bulleid condition. Sorry to be on obtuse , Gilbert but as they were all in original condition at one time, you mean Original/ Rebuilt condition at the time of withdrawal ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 66 Squadron was quite local to me when based at Duxford and Horesham-St-Faith so that gets my vote. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2021 So many worthy candidates... Of those that were not rebuilt, "Biggin Hill" is a favourite, being named after what was my "local" airfield growing up, but the best name must surely be "Winston Churchill" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2021 41 minutes ago, great northern said: 25 votes in the West Country poll, which I think may be a record. 18 different names put forward, the winner being Wesward Ho! with 5. And so to Battle of Britain names. In order to curry favour with my ducky chum, we will split this into original and rebuilt, which may also make you think a little more. Today then it is the best Battle of Britain name in original Bulleid condition. Fighter Pilot! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2021 12 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Fighter Pilot! I agree, not least because it was the only one of the 140 Bulleid pacifics I didn't see! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon4470 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Kenley for me in this poll....I was born and bred less than a mile away from the airfield. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2021 My vote for an "Air smoothed" BoB goes to 34051 "Winston Churchill" as I remeber going to see the funeral train going through Bracknell on its way to Handborough on 30th Jan 1965. He was at least a National Treasure, almost up with Royalty! Alternatives could have been 34057 "Biggin Hill" - which was the second loco, behind "Bude", on the LCGB Somerset & Dorset last day rail - or 34066 "Spitfire", but that one was involved in the Lewisham crash so probably not a well remembered loco. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Spitfire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2021 34024 Tamar Valley gets my vote Also 34111 633 Squadron... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 34064 for me. Not only an evocative name in Fighter Command, but GIESL EJECTOR! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CHAZ D Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2021 34051 "Winston Churchill" as I remember going to see the funeral train just before Earley station and have been immortalise in this picture:- https://railway-photography.smugmug.com/SRSteam/Bulleid-Locomotives/Light-Pacific-Class/3402134052-Built-1946/3704934052/i-jHc5dGW/A The memory of "old soldiers" saluting with tears in their eyes is very poingnant to this day. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Tamar Valley for me please Gilbert. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Has to be Winston Churchill. What would have happened without him? And conversely, would he be remembered if WW2 had never occurred? I watched the funeral on television and will never forget the way the Thameside cranes dipped their jibs in tribute. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2021 For me it has to be 264 Squadron. 264 was a night fighter squadron and had Defiants originally which is my favorite single engine RAF fighter. Although technically a destroyer not a fighter. They switched to Mossies in 42 and finally to Meteors in 51. Built by BR in 48 never rebuilt. Scrapped in 64. May she rest in peace. Regards Lez. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 10 minutes ago, 2750Papyrus said: I watched the funeral on television and will never forget the way the Thameside cranes dipped their jibs in tribute. Indeed, that is one of the first items on television that I can remember watching. I little amusing story:- One of our visitors at Locomotion (in the long remembered days when we could have visitors) complained that the air-smoothed casing wasn't smooth enough, and what had the Railway Museum done to it? And then of course there is the often quoted and possibly apocryphal De Gaul story. (And I did recently discover a possible another aspect of that.) I hope all our engines aren't getting bored with no-one coming to see them! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) Fighter pilot for me too. Where would we have been without them, though all allied WWII pilots deserve equal respect. Martyn Edited January 24, 2021 by mullie 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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