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  1. 5944

    5944 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Someone went to a 1940s weekend at the ELR and asked the driver of a class 40 where the other 18 were...
     
    5944, 9. Listopad 2014.
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  2. Miff

    Miff Part of the furniture Friend

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    No-one is objecting to engines having names. I am objecting to the notion that all engines should have names. I also object to long names.
     
    Miff, 9. Listopad 2014.
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    The Dainton Banker se sviđa ovo.
  3. Murray

    Murray New Member

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    Errm, 590? Also, hate to a pedant but Beddgelert was scrapped by the NWNGR in 1906 so never became a WHR engine.

    Personally, I think the current WHR locos should continue to acknowledge their SAR history by retaining their historic numbers.
     
    Murray, 10. Listopad 2014.
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  4. John Stewart

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    So we won't be having another The Green Howard Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own Yorkshire Regiment then? (I know that it was Wales's but I'm keen on grammar)
     
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  5. Miff

    Miff Part of the furniture Friend

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    Is there a locomotive long enough for the nameplate?
     
    Miff, 11. Listopad 2014.
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  6. Steve B

    Steve B Well-Known Member

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    Yes, an NGG16, but the name plate would have to be flexible to go round corners...

    Steve B
     
    Steve B, 12. Listopad 2014.
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    Miff, Jamessquared i Martin Perry se sviđa ovo.
  7. John Stewart

    John Stewart Part of the furniture

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    From recollection is was a three-storey nameplate.
     
    John Stewart, 13. Listopad 2014.
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  8. huochemi

    huochemi Part of the furniture

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    Easy, make it this small (the suffix from 45156's plate, 14 3/4" long), and stick it in the cab. Problem solved, the loco has a name but it does not detract visually. :D
    45156.jpg
     
    huochemi, 13. Listopad 2014.
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  9. Miff

    Miff Part of the furniture Friend

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    Sounds horribly vulgar :)
     
    Miff, 13. Listopad 2014.
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  10. Britfoamer

    Britfoamer Well-Known Member

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    Names like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu spring to mind?
     
    Britfoamer, 14. Listopad 2014.
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  11. Eagle1711

    Eagle1711 Well-Known Member

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    How about this for a name plate of the side of a FR/WHR engine.... "H.R.H Andrew T"...

    **ducts below the parapit**

    Haha
     
    Eagle1711, 14. Listopad 2014.
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  12. marshall5

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    Reminds me of a 1980 visit to Voorbai shed in South Africa. I asked the shed foreman why they'd named one of their GMAM's "Amin". The reply was "It's big black ugly and covered in brass - what else would you call it!" Speechless! Ray.
     
    marshall5, 14. Listopad 2014.
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    242A1, nanstallon, The Dainton Banker i 1 drugoj osobi se sviđa ovo.
  13. nanstallon

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    They didn't do P.C. in South Africa in those days! But at least it shows that they were starting to become more inclusive.

    John
     
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  14. nanstallon

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    How about 'Top of the Pops' if you really want a vulgar nameplate?

    John
     
    nanstallon, 17. Listopad 2014.
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  15. david1984

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    Personally I woulden't object too much to the Garratts being named (South Afican loco's in North Wales so authenticity is non existent in this case), just pick something decent if you do, leave the speciality of crap names to NR TOC's.
     
    david1984, 17. Listopad 2014.
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  16. John Stewart

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    And "Sir Jimmy Savile" on the other side.
     
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    What is wrong with long names?
     
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  18. Miff

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    Nothing wrong with long names. They just don't look good on locomotives. Either the plate is too long for the space available or the lettering is too small. Or, even worse, it takes up more than one line. Has anyone ever resorted to naming the tender? That would be the pits.

    The FR and WHR have a fine tradition of, mostly, short snappy loco names. Prince & Princess even had their names shortened from The Prince and The Princess presumably because someone realised it would look better.

    Finally when the time comes, as it surely must, to name a loco after me I hope my descendants will have the good sense not to use my full name which is reserved for my passport, my headstone, election nights and in the dock at the Old Bailey. MIFF is fine; CLICHELMORE is good; M.A. CLICHELMORE is ok. But MIFF ALOYSIUS ST-BERNARD XAVIER FITZ-CLICHELMORE - on a locomotive? No no no! :)
     
    Last edited: 18. Listopad 2014.
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  19. andrewshimmin

    andrewshimmin Well-Known Member

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    I really hope that is actually your name...
     
    andrewshimmin, 18. Listopad 2014.
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    Miff se sviđa ovo.
  20. Rbridge100

    Rbridge100 New Member

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    You could try acronyms for long names, but this doesn't seem to have had much success on Welsh narrow gauge. SMR No.1 was named L.A.D.A.S for only a year before it mysteriously fell off the mountain.
     
    Rbridge100, 18. Listopad 2014.
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