Lizzie,
There is a survivor of the Warship Class, Onslaught currently based at the Diesel and Electric Preservation Groups HQ at Williton on the West Somerset Railway.
We had a trip to the WSR's Autumn Gala a few weeks ago and part of the special events are the steam workshops and diesel workshops at Minehead and Williton are open for inspection which are very very interesting. There's some flippin' great engines being built in the diesel workshop 
I've been interested in choo choos for years now and am a member of various preserved railway lines. I've also had an awful lot of ribbing about my interests but I don't care. There's something very peacefull about the avarage railway enviroment, I think it's because it harks back to a time when thinks weren't so hectic. Nostalgia I think it's called!!!
Humpy
That's great to know Humpy and thanks
, as I feared that they had all been lost after the two at Barry were cut up.
Although a steam girl, I do still have very warm feelings towards certain classes of diesel, especially those that I encountered as a child being promoted as the new form of traction.
I never worry about being classed as a "trainspotter" as I soon inform anyone who does that to me of my knowledge of the history of railways, their mechanical and civil engineering achievements, quite apart from the social history surrounding them which encompassed thousands of real life railway families for many generations! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
That shuts them up, and they then appreciate the academic and practical worth of the railways, then, now and in the future!!
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