You have a time machine and you can go back to the 50s/60s and save one Engine. Which would it be ?

So an engine in the mid 1960s cost around 3500 quid (I understand that's what 34023 and 92203 cost in 1967) and a withdrawn coach around 300... so you could by say 10 to 12 coaches instead... well if that was the case then first a 2 car LSWR gate set, a six coach skirted Bournemouth Bulleid set, a Bulleid Tavern car and 2 or three LSWR Ironclad coaches if I had any cash left over

...or if I must buy an engine then a LSWR 700 class:



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The Beyer-Peacock built M&SWJR 2-6-0 as rebuilt by Swindon - it would have made a most useful preservation era loco I think.

 

Just to arouse a storm - a Q1 Coffee Pot

 

Odd one.

10800, later Hawk.

 

A side window cab K2 would look nice on the Jacobite but the LNWR is under represented in preservation so a Webb Cauliflower, a simple machine ideal for a heritage line.

 

All good choices. If we're allowed more than one, next on my list would be 3406 Calcutta, the last surviving Bulldog.

 

This and its GNR predecessor 62822.

 

If I had a time machine, could I not go back to the 1920s or 1930s at least? When they had proper locos in proper liveries (i.e. red!).

 

One of 46256, 44781, a Peppercorn A1, V4 or J39.
Industrial? A Lambton tender loco or a Nasmyth Wilson 0-8-0 tank.

 

I actually like their brutal chrm

 

I thought about the Atlantics but dismissed them as a replica / new build will emerge from Sheffield Park

 

I would go for something modern and innovative. 34001

 

And me - Elgar's County

 

7005 - Sir Edward Elgar

 

HS 4000 Kestrel

 

Not particularly important or valuable compared to some of the others, but would have to be 30931 for me, on the same logic.


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I suppose I could settle for a small locomotive and carriages... 30757 and LSWR gate set...



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A Gresley K3.

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Of all the suggestions so far I think 1287 the best.

 

For my own personal obscure reasons

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