Peterborough North

[great northern]

This is beginning to get tedious. More heavy rain today, rain all day tomorrow, and heavy snow at the weekend!  Where has spring gone? This probably means a lot more time for the railway, but I could do with some fresh air and exercise.

 

 Another high level shot this morning, this time from the South.

Also from the south an ancient Midland loco runs in with what will be the 1200pm departure for Leicester.

 

I have to admit that I am not very gruntled.

[great northern]

In the end the rain relented, and we managed to get out and do something. What a difference it makes. Having said that, here is a picture that is not too different from one you saw this morning, but it has an impact, nevertheless.

You will not be surprised, knowing my liking for pre grouping 4.4.0s. that the camera was pointed at that 2P again.

[great northern]

Some good news to start the day. A cancellation means that I get my eye zapped next Wednesday, and normal vision will be restored. This will, of course, remove excuses for not getting on with things. As to photos, there is one more still life to show you, with the caveat that this is an unfinished part of the layout.

Then we have the appearance of the 1000 Up Leeds. This is the return leg of the diagram which started with the Down Yorkshire Pullman yesterday, and now brings Sir Nigel himself on his way back to the capital.

[JeffP]

Good news about your eye. Hope it all goes well.

 

 

 

This is beginning to get tedious. More heavy rain today, rain all day tomorrow, and heavy snow at the weekend!  Where has spring gone?

 

Errrrrrrr....it doesn't get here until the 21st March? Unless we listen to the daft MetOffice with their ideas of "Meteorological seasons"? In which case 1st march...but I notice they haven't been bandying that one around this year...I wonder why not?

[cctransuk]

Unless we listen to the daft MetOffice with their ideas of "Meteorological seasons"? In which case 1st march...but I notice they haven't been bandying that one around this year...I wonder why not?

 

Oh yes they have; it was repeated several time to my knowledge on 01/03/18.

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[great northern]

 Another shot of 60007 tonight, this time with that shabby A3 also in shot.

and no sooner has the sound of one A4 died away into the distance, a chime whistle announces the arrival of another. This time it is Walter K Whigham, bringing in the 1100 Glasgow.

Time for bed soon, with the promise of snow to look at again when the curtains are opened in the morning.

[St Enodoc]

Good news about your eye. Hope it all goes well.

 

 

 

 

Errrrrrrr....it doesn't get here until the 21st March? Unless we listen to the daft MetOffice with their ideas of "Meteorological seasons"? In which case 1st march...but I notice they haven't been bandying that one around this year...I wonder why not?

It won't be here until 1 September, according to our Bureau of Meteorology!

[great northern]

The promised snow has not (yet) arrived, but the 1100 Glasgow has.

Walter will now go off for a rest, and 60070 has backed on, ready for the journey home. It is highly unlikely to be cleaned when it gets there.

[FPH 603]

The promised snow has not (yet) arrived, but the 1100 Glasgow has.

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Walter will now go off for a rest, and 60070 has backed on, ready for the journey home. It is highly unlikely to be cleaned when it gets there.

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I'm sure either my memory is bad or my eyes are deceiving me (probably both, actually!), but does 60070 look grimier today?

[great northern]

I'm sure either my memory is bad or my eyes are deceiving me (probably both, actually!), but does 60070 look grimier today?

That will just be down to my variable photoshopping I think, with possibly some variable lighting conditions thrown in.

[great northern]

Three days have passed since Tim was here, but I haven't, until now, found the time to take photos of the latest lovely creation he brought with him. 60109 Hermit was a Kings Cross engine, but by August 1958 was due for a general overhaul, and in fact went in to Plant about a month later. For some reason she had gone longer than the usual eighteen months between shoppings, in fact it was two years since she came out of the paint shop. We know that KX Pacifics were generally kept clean, but that gets harder to do as time passes, and a lot of time has passed with 60109. The brief to Tim was to capture the loco as quite clean, but a bit run down. It was by now spending a lot of time on slow trains to Peterborough and Grantham, rather than on Top link duties. Did he succeed? Judge for yourselves.

Then I zoomed in

and finally did the classic three quarter view.

 

Yet another excellent job, so far as I am concerned, and in my view this kind of craftsmanship and attention to detail takes the Hornby model to a different level.

[Market65]

Yes, Gilbert, Tim has done it again! That is so excellent in every way, just as you requested the model to be finished. Excellent weathering like that makes a good model, like the Hornby A3, look so real. And the scale lamps are the finishing touch. You will be so pleased with the finished result, I know I would be.

 

Best regards,

 

Rob.

[45156]

Sitting on that excellent trackwork, that is just about the most realistic image of a steam model that I have ever seen, and it is a credit to Tim's abilities to take a mundane model to a new level.

[great northern]

The lunchtime departure for Cambridge will leave Platform 6 quite soon, and here is the loco backing on.

meantime yet another trip working runs through on the main.

 

Still not much snow yet, though that is supposed to change shortly. Another railway day to come, methinks.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Just to annoy everybody, South Australia has now gone 90 days with out rain, odd passing very light shower, having a bit of rain at the moment, probably won't add up to more than a couple of mills. Just thought you'd like to know   

 

manna 

[CUTLER2579]

G'Day Folks

 

Just to annoy everybody, South Australia has now gone 90 days with out rain, odd passing very light shower, having a bit of rain at the moment, probably won't add up to more than a couple of mills. Just thought you'd like to know 

 

manna 

 

Well you'll soon have a water shortage, unlike us in the  UK.  

[John Rich]

I have been quietly following this thread for some time and I have to say that all the photos are excellent but those photos of 60109 are absolutely stunning !

 

John

[great northern]

Outside my window, everything is very white, and the car is buried again. At PN, it is a nice day with light cloud and a gentle breeze, and things have moved on a little.

Loco in place on the 1243pm Cambridge.

and the J50 has a clear road into the yards beyond Spital Bridge.

[great northern]

I have been quietly following this thread for some time and I have to say that all the photos are excellent but those photos of 60109 are absolutely stunning !

 

John

The credit should go really to the basic excellence of the Hornby model, and Tim's expertise in adding to it in a way which, in fairness is absolutely impossible to achieve on a mass produced item. The standards really are now exceptionally high.

[great northern]

Sorry folks, I missed one out earlier.

I decided that I wanted to get the stock in Platform 6 into this shot, but in so doing we get the end of that broken down wall very prominently in our faces. Better if I had cropped that out?

[Podhunter]

We get the end of that broken down wall very prominently in our faces. Better if I had cropped that out?

The decaying wall is an idiosyncratic feature that identifies PN during the days of BR neglect.  Leave it in!

[great northern]

The B12 is now off on its way to Cambridge, and its home shed.

a near broadside view shows its graceful looks to good effect. I've replaced the blue card with white in most of the places I can reach, and that made shopping the background of this shot rather easier. There is just one more piece that needs doing, but it is perilously close to being completely out of reach. The thought of overbalancing and landing with a crash on the layout, and some of Peter's buildings means that it will probably have to stay as it is.

we can also watch it going away.

[great northern]

I have a visitor from oop North today, so I need to get on with things. First though it is time for another prestige train, this time the Tees-Tyne pullman. Today it is in the hands of one of Top Shed's roller bearing fitted A1s, suitably cleaned, of course.

some lovely rich colours on view here, so well worth another look.

[thegreenhowards]

I have a visitor from oop North today, so I need to get on with things. First though it is time for another prestige train, this time the Tees-Tyne pullman. Today it is in the hands of one of Top Shed's roller bearing fitted A1s, suitably cleaned, of course.

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some lovely rich colours on view here, so well worth another look.

 

That is a lovely looking train Gilbert. I'm impressed that you've actually got the roller bearings modelled properly in true 'Wright' style. That's still on my to do list! I'm interested that there is a top shed pacific on this service. Would it have been a lodging turn or a loco change at Grantham? 

[great northern]

That is a lovely looking train Gilbert. I'm impressed that you've actually got the roller bearings modelled properly in true 'Wright' style. That's still on my to do list! I'm interested that there is a top shed pacific on this service. Would it have been a lodging turn or a loco change at Grantham? 

Who do you think pointed out the lack of the roller bearings in the first place. When Tim did the body treatment on 60157 I asked him if he could get me off the hook, and as usual he did. Then we did 60156 as well, so I'm fireproof on both. There are plenty more to be done to Sir's exacting standards yet though.

 

The Up Tees-Tyne was the return leg of one of the Kings Cross Newcastle lodging turns. I can't remember just now which one exactly, though I believe it may have been the Scotch goods.