A slightly random photo for this Friday. Some time ago, I photographed the wannabee "Blue Pulman" train as it came through Leamington. It's not really a Blue Pullman, it's a repainted HST and I wish the owners would stop pretending. It's not like HST's aren't both excellent, and an endangered species!
The thing it, I know that the rules allow locos not to have yellow ends any more - but they just look wrong without them, in my opinion. Anyone else feel the same?
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We know about the history of the Blue Pullman & I remember travelling on one Bistol to London as a kid but I wonder how many of the other passengers have even heard of them.
Yellow ends? I cannnot say that it worries me - in fact as I grew up before yellow ends they have never looked right to me!
I know exactly what you mean Phil. I know yellow ends are now optional but trains just look weird without them as I’ve spent my entire adult life with them…
Only thing certain is that things change. I guess this is another example.
HST as a Blue Pullman - neat idea but the peak on the white over the windows is a stupid idea. It would look neater if it was just a white band around the window like on the original, rather than trying to compensate for a different shape. Still it’s not my trainset is it…
I too date from the steam era and yellow ends were something that was alien and never fitted the design of the more modern stock in my eyes. I remember Bulleids, both rebuilt and unrebuilt, on the Southern lines and Halls, Castles and Counties on the Western line. How we looked forward to the coming of the lunchtime parcels hauled by a gleaming County (usually County of Middlesex). We also enjoyed the DMUs which were gradually replacing loco hauled stock on the Bristol line (but not completely). A ride on them provided unrivalled views forward from behind the driver. Hymecs, DMUs and their like never looked right in corporate blue with yellow ends. For myself, I am happy that yellow has been consigned to history.
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