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Discussion in 'Diesel & Electric Traction' started by 50041, Jun 14, 2009.

  1. 50041

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    http://class50.zenfolio.com/p375532762
     
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    Thanks for the photos.
    Class 50s were the class that never was for me. I lost interest in 1970 by which time I had seen only D428. I remember some friends who were still interested in railways moaning when they heard these D400s were going to be given naval names. They considered that insult to the injury of losing their beloved Warship hydraulics. In 1992 my son started taking numbers, so I bought him a platform 5 book and found just 7 members of the class listed. I've now seen a dozen preserved examples.
     
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    60017 Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    As a teenager in Lancaster, saw every single one of them brand new. Locally, we felt they were 'ours' for the Crewe - Glasgow portion of the WCML, so they were very popular with spotters in the area. I certainly photographed a few with my Zenith B !

    http://johnleyland736.mediaobject.co.uk/p57791765.html
     
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    Some excellent photos there 60017! =D>
     
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    Thanks - it was all a very long time ago !
     
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    I remember as a very young lad being taken down to Laira depot by my dad for a spot of trainspotting while we were on holiday and being greeted by a very long line of 50's in the scrap line. Also I just remember seeing one go through Dawlish on what must have been one of it's last workings. We have an old video of a camping holiday to Bodmin in about 1988 and the site backed onto the Cornish mainline, the Hoovers provided the sound track as they climbed the bank! Probably one of the few diesels that I have a soft spot for (though I am slowly coming around to diesel from coal :)) as it was my first experience of seeing a familiar class disappear from the mainline.
     
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    I would probably have stayed a 'silent admirer' of the hoovers if they had stayed 'up north' where they were born. However they came south and displaced the class 52s from most of their top workings, so I had no welcome in my heart for them and wasn't sorry to see them go. I did turn out for the last pair of 50s that worked Salisbury-Exeter, but only to watch them depart. This is only a personal view, I hasten to add!
     
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