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

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  1. OldChap

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    So an engine in the mid 1960s cost around 3500 quid (I understand that's what 34023 and 92203 cost in 1967) and a withdrawn coach around 300...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.
     
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    Just to arouse a storm - a Q1 Coffee Pot
     
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  4. The Green Howards

    The Green Howards Nat Pres stalwart

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    Odd one.

    10800, later Hawk.
     
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    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.
     
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    All good choices. If we're allowed more than one, next on my list would be 3406 Calcutta, the last surviving Bulldog.
     
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    This and its GNR predecessor 62822.

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    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!).
     
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    26D_M Part of the furniture

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    One of 46256, 44781, a Peppercorn A1, V4 or J39.
    Industrial? A Lambton tender loco or a Nasmyth Wilson 0-8-0 tank.[​IMG]
     
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    I actually like their brutal chrm
     
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    I thought about the Atlantics but dismissed them as a replica / new build will emerge from Sheffield Park
     
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    I would go for something modern and innovative. 34001
     
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    And me - Elgar's County
     
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    7005 - Sir Edward Elgar
     
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    HS 4000 Kestrel
     
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    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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    Kylchap, Dec 22, 2017
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    Of all the suggestions so far I think 1287 the best.
     
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    For my own personal obscure reasons

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