What is happening with 55016?

Read rumours of scrapping, of sales to DRS, wjat is actually happening
please?

On Sep 7, 9:58 pm, "Jack Taylor" <J...@Carney.co.uk> wrote:

> If all he wants is the bogies, then just doing a bogie swap would still
> result in a loco that he could sell on. There's very little internally
> that's of much use elsewhere

The insides of a deltic were never much use IMHO.

Strip out 55016 and fit a 16CSVT and make a DP2 out of it I say.

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Nick

Tony Polson wrote:
> D7666 <d7666@m> wrote:
>
>> The insides of a deltic were never much use IMHO.
>>
>> Strip out 55016 and fit a 16CSVT and make a DP2 out of it I say.
>
> Now *that* is a good idea. ;-)

Oh, I don't know. I quite like the idea of a pair of MTUs myself! ;-)

On Sep 8, 9:28 pm, "Jack Taylor" <J...@Carney.co.uk> wrote:

> >> Strip out 55016 and fit a 16CSVT and make a DP2 out of it I say.

> > Now *that* is a good idea. ;-)

> Oh, I don't know. I quite like the idea of a pair of MTUs myself! ;-)

A pair of Rolls Royce Merlins has cossed my mind in the past.

Or Darts.

Anything better than that infernal deltic racket.

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Nick

On Sep 8, 9:28 pm, "Jack Taylor" <J...@Carney.co.uk> wrote:

> Oh, I don't know. I quite like the idea of a pair of MTUs myself! ;-)


A pair of Rolls Royce Merlins - or 4 if they will fit.


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Nick

On Sep 11, 1:57 pm, a...@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:

> >> I do wonder if at least the last two V-bomber designs (Vulcan, Victor)
> >> were specifically /designed/ to look frightening.

> >Did you think that? I thought the the Victor looked rather odd, the

> The Victor, with its crew pod at the nose end of a slim fuselage, always
> reminds me of one of those parasitic wasps. Both beautiful and disturbing
> that the same time.

I think the Victor was both a menacing looking machine and one of the
best if not the best of all military aircraft.

When I was working in Wellingborough used to see them regularly at not
a great height to/from their base (somewhere in Lincolnshire ?).

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Nick

On Sep 11, 3:28 pm, Tony Polson <docnews2...@> wrote:
> D7666 <d7...@m> wrote:
>
> >I think the Victor was both a menacing looking machine and one of the
> >best if not the best of all military aircraft.
>
> "The best" by what definition?

Sorry, my fault, not clear, I meant ''best looking'', as you
suggested:

> If you mean the best-looking, that's arguable,

I'd not argue with what is or not best looking, but argue that it is
an entirely subjective issue.

Dropping back to original subject matter, I detest deltic noise - and
thats subjective too. I use the word noise quite clearly. deltics make
a noise, other locos make sounds. Deltics make a quantity of racket
whereas there are many other machines where I prefer the quality of
sound, even if it is less.

McMullen AK is one of my favourite ales - also subjective.

And so on.

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Nick

On Sep 11, 6:04 pm, Tony Polson <docnews2...@> wrote:

> Curious that you should choose to snip my phrase that followed
> immediately after the text you did quote, where I described it as "a
> masterpiece of design", and argued about "arguable" instead. ;-)

;o)

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Nick