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Originally Posted by Trev
I wouldn't go as far as to say that the class was jinxed though. In numerical terms they were the largest class of diesels (main line locomotives), and they were used over the whole country on a huge variety of different trains. So I suppose that whenever an accident was 'waiting to happen' there was a good chance that a Brush 4 would be the unfortunate locomotive.
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That is a good point, however I just find a lot of the stories interesting, such as the two incidents in as many days and of course the infamous story of the clairvoyant who predicted 47216 would have a fatal accident and begged British Rail to renumber it in TOPS, and then shortly afterwards it crashed anyway.
However I suppose as you say with a large volume of these loco's out there, there is room for such "coincidences".
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Originally Posted by paul miller
Fabulous looking locos. Always looked as though they would cope with anything.
After the two tone green livery, I thought the Silver Jubilee ones from Stratford where the best. Though to be fair they looked good in any livery.
Paul.
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They do indeed have a look about them that I can't tangably explain but draws me. I think they could cope with anything, the fact many have been converted to 57's, while possibly unpopular I don't know (is zombies derogatory?
) it is a testament to (at least in basic design) the fact that if it's not broke, don't fix it.