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Title: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: JayMac on July 17, 2019, 21:25:07 Tonight (17th July 2019) at STEAM Museum Swindon the nameplates for the Class 255 Castle HSTs were unveiled at a presentation by GWR for invited guests. The Class 43s remaining with GWR, for operation of the shortened sets on inter-regional services, are being named after castles/stately homes from across the area that GWR serves.
I believe there will be 24 named power cars on the fleet. 23 names have been decided upon, with one more to come. Those names are: Cromwell's Castle Chûn Castle Tregenna Castle St Michael's Mount St Mawes Castle St Catherine's Castle Castle-an-Dinas Trematon Castle Launceston Castle Kingswear Castle Compton Castle Berry Pomeroy Castle Okehampton Castle Castle Drogo Powderham Castle Rougemont Castle Taunton Castle Dunster Castle Walton Castle Cardiff Castle Caerphilly Castle Newport Castle Chepstow Castle The individual allocation of a name to a 43xxx has yet to be confirmed. Although Laira do have all the nameplates ready to go. Also unveiled at STEAM tonight were a selection of nameplates that have adorned Class 43s throughout their time on BR/GWT/FGW/GWR in the west. I'll post some pictures of the nameplates from the Class 255 'Castles' later. Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: JayMac on July 17, 2019, 21:35:52 Invited guests received a booklet with details of the castles/stately homes that have leant their names to the GWR Class 255 fleet of HST power cars.
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190717_212940_zpspmhm8m66.jpg) Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: martyjon on July 17, 2019, 22:06:12 Tonight (17th July 2019) at STEAM Museum Swindon the nameplates for the Class 255 Castle HSTs were unveiled at a presentation by GWR for invited guests. The Class 43s remaining with GWR, for operation of the shortened sets on inter-regional services, are being named after castles/stately homes from across the area that GWR serves. I believe there will be 24 named power cars on the fleet. 23 names have been decided upon, with one more to come. Those names are: Cromwell's Castle Chûn Castle Tregenna Castle St Michael's Mount St Mawes Castle St Catherine's Castle Castle-an-Dinas Trematon Castle Launceston Castle Kingswear Castle Compton Castle Berry Pomeroy Castle Okehampton Castle Castle Drogo Powderham Castle Rougemont Castle Taunton Castle Dunster Castle Walton Castle Cardiff Castle Caerphilly Castle Newport Castle Chepstow Castle The individual allocation of a name to a 43xxx has yet to be confirmed. Although Laira do have all the nameplates ready to go. Also unveiled at STEAM tonight were a selection of nameplates that have adorned Class 43s throughout their time on BR/GWT/FGW/GWR in the west. I'll post some pictures of the nameplates from the Class 255 'Castles' later. Bristol Castle for the 24th anyone. Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: TaplowGreen on July 17, 2019, 22:16:11 Elephant & Castle?
Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: Robin Summerhill on July 17, 2019, 23:08:01 Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view...) I am old enough to remember seeing some of those names appearing on working locomotives many years ago.
But not Okehampton Castle of course - wrong railway... ;) Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: TonyK on July 18, 2019, 10:40:00 My wife likes Coch.
Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: JayMac on July 18, 2019, 10:43:58 (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190718_102956_zps2htlqa95.jpg)
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190718_103030_zpshtvfjs8g.jpg) (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190718_103120_zpsb6batjkd.jpg) (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190718_103208_zps8wehltik.jpg) (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190718_103303_zpsmrbtape4.jpg) (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/rps20190718_103758_zpsw8nb691i.jpg) Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: eightf48544 on July 18, 2019, 11:47:12 Bristol Castle for the 24th anyone. Don't you mean Windsor Castle? Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: RA on July 18, 2019, 12:25:25 With the locomotive out of use for a long time at Carnforth, this is a legend Castle nameplate that I would like to see in use again: ;)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrs1967_1/5242513012/ Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: Red Squirrel on July 18, 2019, 18:29:37 Barbara?
Title: Re: 'Castles to Legend Land' HST Castle Class 255 nameplates. Post by: TonyK on July 18, 2019, 18:35:47 With the locomotive out of use for a long time at Carnforth, this is a legend Castle nameplate that I would like to see in use again: ;) I was only thinking of that the other day, for reasons I can't recall. My son, then about 13 so over 25 years ago (!), was chosen by his school to meet Roy's train at Temple Meads on that final tour he did, shortly before he died. Said son was interviewed by the BBC West news. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |