Peterborough North

[great northern]

That will be because of the colour of the pixel you happened to click on - which is what the program "reads" before it does the edit. Zoom right into almost any digital photograph and you will discover that there is a surprising variation in the colour of the pixels which make up an even, flat expanse of colour. It's not a huge problem providing your software has an "undo" button. You can have a few quick tries with various settings and "click" points to get the best effect.

Ah, that explains a lot. My "undo" button is regularly exercised, but the problem comes when I zoom in on something to discover that I didn't notice a bit had been eaten up about fifty moves earlier. Sometimes I can be bothered to go all the way back to correct it, but other times I can't. A close look at the images I'm about to put up will illustrate the point. It is often hard to see the exact boundary of what the software is  intending to remove.

[Flood]

 

Ivatt and pilot.jpg

The pilot has propelled in the stock for the 1130 Edinburgh departure, and the fireman is even now retracing the route to retrieve the lamp what fell off on the way up from Nene sidings.

 

Ah, the 11.30 Peterborough North to Edinburgh. Summer Fridays and Saturdays Only and booked to use end vestibule 7 compartment seconds and a 6 compartment first. I'm interested to see what form of a scratch rake you use for this train Gilbert. Plus there's the added chance of a Thompson Pacific due to it starting at Peterborough.

I reckon this is the service 60506 is on in this link (dated 1960) http://www.lner.info...14591&mode=view

[great northern]

Ah, the 11.30 Peterborough North to Edinburgh. Summer Fridays and Saturdays Only and booked to use end vestibule 7 compartment seconds and a 6 compartment first. I'm interested to see what form of a scratch rake you use for this train Gilbert. Plus there's the added chance of a Thompson Pacific due to it starting at Peterborough.

I reckon this is the service 60506 is on in this link (dated 1960) http://www.lner.info/forums/download/file.php?id=14591&mode=view

That is a very striking image indeed. Many thanks for the link. Now, as it happens, today's featured train just happens to be the 1130 Edinburgh.

And here it is, headed by another of New England's filthiest. From the front we have :- Dia 346 BSK - Dia 329 SK - Dia 329 SK - MK1 SK - Dia 155 SK - Dia 329 SK - Dia 155 SK - Dia 172 FK - Dia 346 BSK.

 

The MK1 is temporary, and will be replaced by another Dia 155 fairly shortly. I store these in spurs at the front of the fiddle yard. A block of three, two  SK and BSK, off one end of FY road 1, a block of four SK at the other end. They are brought together manually, and then the FK which is loose, plus a loose BSK 4 are attched to the far end. This is all a part of my cunning plan to get the most out of rolling stock. I can add a RF/SO to this and get another common formation, or some MK1s instead of a couple of the seconds and get another one. I can even mix end door and all door stock as some formations did.

 

This was a New England working, so as you say Thompson Pacifics will be the regular performers. However, the 1958 Railway Observers say that this train was sometimes used to return Scottish locos which had strayed down South for whatever reason to their rightful home. A St Margarets (64A) V2 is recorded on 16/8/58, and they were incredibly rare this far South. 60031 is also recorded, presumably after a failure on the Elizabethan. It had been on the 1725 Peterborough -KX slow a few days before. You can no doubt see where this might be leading.

A J6 on a trip working from South yard now runs past on the Down slow. I'm not quite sure why empty brick wagons would be heading in this direction.

An attempt at a different angle and vantage point, using a rather wobbly tripod.

[Grafarman]

Fantastic shot GB, and a wonderful mix of coaches and liveries - any chance of a 'passing shot' of the various types?

 

 

David

[coachmann]

Been busy catching up on several pages .......Post 9903 has the best shots for a long time. It shows how awkward we humanoids are when track-level shots have become the 'norm' and the old-fashioned birds-eye shots look like an improvement all of a sudden! My immune system fails every time when it comes to Thompson Pacifics. 

Edited January 14, 2016 by coachmann

[great northern]

Fantastic shot GB, and a wonderful mix of coaches and liveries - any chance of a 'passing shot' of the various types?

 

 

David

I'll see what I can do next time I'm operating. It's rather more difficult when the train is in platform 6, but I'll find a way I'm sure.

[great northern]

While messing around with the camera on tripod, I tried this. I don't like it, so it should be popular.

 

Some time ago, I was asked if I could feature a particular A4. This is the first appropriate train since that request, hence the delay.

So here he is, and on one of the flagship expresses, as number 28 so often was. I wish to assure you that to the human eye, well mine anyway, that headboard is very nearly straight. The camera disagrees.

Do back lit shots look better in black and white? I can't make up my mind on that one. The headboard hasn't straightened up though.

This is included to show that now and again my duck egg blue walls do actually work as intended.

and a close up to finish for now.

 

[chaz]

While messing around with the camera on tripod, I tried this. I don't like it, so it should be popular.

roof high.jpg

 

Some time ago, I was asked if I could feature a particular A4. This is the first appropriate train since that request, hence the delay.

28 1.jpg

So here he is, and on one of the flagship expresses, as number 28 so often was. I wish to assure you that to the human eye, well mine anyway, that headboard is very nearly straight. The camera disagrees.

28 1 bw.jpg

Do back lit shots look better in black and white? I can't make up my mind on that one. The headboard hasn't straightened up though.

28 2.jpg

This is included to show that now and again my duck egg blue walls do actually work as intended.

28 3.jpg

and a close up to finish for now.

 

I'm with you - I don't like helicopter shots much. OK to show the layout in general, or the sweep of the trackwork, but otherwise much less realistic. The obvious reason being that none of us were blessed with this viewpoint back then - we would all have loved it if it were offered though!

 

Excellent grimy A2 - I remember 35A/34E V2s in green, but so dirty you could scarcely read the cab numbers. I must admit my 7mm New England V2 60869 must be not long out of shops as it is unusually clean.

 

Keep those excellent lineside shots coming and carry on cropping.

 

Chaz

[great northern]

Fantastic shot GB, and a wonderful mix of coaches and liveries - any chance of a 'passing shot' of the various types?

 

 

David

Had to pose them in the fiddle yard in the end David. Sorry about the sun.

I didn't bother with the Bachmann MK1, we all know what they look like. Forgot to crop one, as well.

[Mallard60022]

Don't know why but I just like the oval windows in Thompsons. Lovely set of coaches G.

Must be my instinct as I rather like shots pics taken  from above............................

Ducky.

[LNER4479]

While messing around with the camera on tripod, I tried this. I don't like it, so it should be popular.

roof high.jpg

 

Some time ago, I was asked if I could feature a particular A4. This is the first appropriate train since that request, hence the delay.

28 1.jpg

So here he is, and on one of the flagship expresses, as number 28 so often was. I wish to assure you that to the human eye, well mine anyway, that headboard is very nearly straight. The camera disagrees.

28 1 bw.jpg

Do back lit shots look better in black and white? I can't make up my mind on that one. The headboard hasn't straightened up though.

28 2.jpg

This is included to show that now and again my duck egg blue walls do actually work as intended.

28 3.jpg

and a close up to finish for now.

I only pressed like for this post because of the first picture - the rest were rubb15h!!

 

(Only joking - but I do like the aerial view and the glimpse it gives us of the work of Peter the roofer)

[coachmann]

While messing around with the camera on tripod, I tried this. I don't like it, so it should be popular.

 

 

Nothing wrong with your shot Gilbert, except.......life. In an aerial shot I expected to see people and even a BR parcels lorry on the road outside the station.

 

 

 

Don't know why but I just like the oval windows in Thompsons. Lovely set of coaches G.

 

Must be my instinct as I rather like shots pics taken  from above............................

Ducky.

I lay odds its those egg shaped lav windows...

[Grafarman]

Beautiful rake GB; it always intrigues me as to the variations in colours, hues, textures and so on, even on very similar types and allowing for lighting etc - far more interesting than a row of identical coaches which you so often see running on other layouts, but rarely in prototypical pictures...

 

Thanks for posting

 

 

David

[great northern]

Here is a rather sad bedtime photo. The idea was to catch the A4 on the Scotsman in the light at the other end of the roof as seen from the North end of Platform 2. The camera was pointed, but alas some old fool had forgotten one important thing.

There is a train on the Up, completely blocking the intended view. Never mind, it will be along shortly.

[great northern]

There you are, you see. I said it would. Mind you 10 hours to cover a couple of hundred yards might be considered excessive by some.

 

And now, a very special offer.

Not just two locos for the price of one, but five. And a DMU too! But I do wish that headboard had been on straight. Time for some cold golf.

[New Haven Neil]

Aha, like that last one, and it has the proper pilot in it too!

[Market65]

Excellent photo's. And the last one is so realistic. I think it is the way it is lit, and the way that the loco's and the station are all spread out as they should be, instead of trying to cram it all in. I thought it was a prototype photo' at first!

 

With best regards,

 

Rob.

[great northern]

Buildings at bedtime, or nearly anyway. More of Peter's District Engineer's corner, which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite areas of the layout.

[great northern]

Here are the last couple of images from the current photofile.

One more of Walter K with that lovely industrial background.

And some back lit spotters, with a dirty duke towering over them. They are ignoring him, having seen him so many times before.

 

Any requests? All jobs and exercises done, white stuff on ground outside, so I have time to point the camera at whatever you might fancy, in the railway room, that is. Not the beautiful blonde with the two lovely spaniels.

[coachmann]

 

 

Any requests? All jobs and exercises done, white stuff on ground outside, so I have time to point the camera at whatever you might fancy, in the railway room, that is. Not the beautiful blonde with the two lovely spaniels.

Not heard then called that before........

[New Haven Neil]

What's the pilot up to, Gilbert?

[great northern]

What's the pilot up to, Gilbert?

As it happens, one of them will be starring in a never before seen role shortly, but not, I'm afraid, your favourite. It will be a while actually - image 23 of 27 in today's shoot.

[great northern]

Quite a long running session completed, and plenty of images to be processed in due course. I was looking at that little building with the bell tower, and thought it deserved to feature in close up. Its not that easy to get at actually, but this came out reasonably well.

[JeffP]

Did it have a bell? And what for?

[coachmann]

Did it have a bell? And what for?

Lepers?