Not wanting to start an argument on here Dennis but everyone is entitled to the opinion on what particular trains they like to watch, you like 50's I personally like 47's and others like 66's I think its not very good to say why people are going to look at these 'poxy things' as as I've said its each to their own.
Well, yes: each to their own.
I always had a bit of a soft spot for the
class 03 shunter. I think it was the way that the exhaust 'funnel' made it seem to have pretensions to being a 'proper' chuff-chuff.
When, about a decade-and-a-half ago, my (then) teenage daughter said, "This is a brilliant film; you should watch it," and slotted in a video-tape of
Danny Boyle's
Trainspotting (1996), I had to agree on the brilliance of the film. But I did quibble over the lack of motive power to tick off in my notebook.
Mind you, I shouldn't complain; Renton and Begbie didn't have much luck trainspotting in
Leith Central Station, in Irvine Welsh's book, on which the film was based – as the station had been closed for years. That chapter didn't make it into the film as scene: I think the station had been demolished before filming started.
