Peterborough North

[great northern]

That was a very quiet day, though I did go for a walk that for a short time turned into a run. This may have been a very silly thing to do. My back will tell me later if it was.

 

The Down slow is getting plenty of use at the moment. Next to show up is a long parcels and ECS. Our photographer tried to show just how long it is, but without much success, even though he ascended to the heights again.

 

 

 

Next in on the Up side is the first mucky duck of the day, bringing willing workers from the villages between here and Kings Lynn.

 

 

[great northern]

Boot up PC. Doesn't work. No mouse. Try again. Same result. Yell at it, using best Basil Fawlty voice, but no tree branch, try again....... it works.

 

Early golf today, so off we go. B17 Tottenham Hotspur has sneaked into Platform 6 with a local from March. As always, a B17 merits a close look.

 

 

 

Heading towards London comes a local V2, which has just taken over a Class C from Newcastle.

 

 

 

I went to great lengths to compose this, and succeeded in every way, apart from the signal growing out of the chimney, which of course I didn't notice until far too late.

 

I'm not allowed to shout at golf balls as I did at the PC, which is a shame, as I'd like to see if it worked on them too. Have a nice day.

[great northern]

 Golf report. Bad start, good finish. OK result.

 

Railway report. The V2 carried on towards London, and was photographed again as it passed the tranship shed.

 

 

 

Following on into Platform 2 was a Grimsby arrival, shabby B1 in charge.

 

 

 

The big question now is whether I go for a Saturday sequence as well as the current one. It would be far more passenger service orientated, so would that make things less interesting? It would certainly make my express locos work harder, but to do it properly would require a lot of V2s, and Bachmann show no signs of providing them any time soon.

[31A]

9 minutes ago, great northern said:

 

The big question now is whether I go for a Saturday sequence as well as the current one. It would be far more passenger service orientated, so would that make things less interesting? It would certainly make my express locos work harder, but to do it properly would require a lot of V2s, and Bachmann show no signs of providing them any time soon.

 

At the least it might add interest for yourself as the operator, in being different to what you're used to, as well as to us as viewers in that you could show us some different workings.  But much work might be involved in 'transitioning' the rolling stock from the M-F service which I presume largely repeats itself from one day to the next, to the SO service which might involve different combinations of rolling stock or indeed different rolling stock altogether in some cases?  Perhaps something to consider anyway; I suspect you've got a while to think about it before Bachmann provide you with more V2s!

[great northern]

10 hours ago, 31A said:

 

At the least it might add interest for yourself as the operator, in being different to what you're used to, as well as to us as viewers in that you could show us some different workings.  But much work might be involved in 'transitioning' the rolling stock from the M-F service which I presume largely repeats itself from one day to the next, to the SO service which might involve different combinations of rolling stock or indeed different rolling stock altogether in some cases?  Perhaps something to consider anyway; I suspect you've got a while to think about it before Bachmann provide you with more V2s!

Not as difficult as I first thought Steve. I'd lose some trains that only ran on weekdays, Tees-Tyne Pullman, Talisman, Fair Maid, for example, and the Elizabethan would need a reversed headboard. Most of the Saturday extras though used a lot of Gresley and particularly Thompson stock, including some very interesting combinations. With my latest cassette and spur set up they would not be difficult to put together, though I'd spend more time doing so than I do now. The difficult ones would be some KX- Skegness trains, which would need eight TSOs, either Gresley or MK1.

 

Doing without most of the coal trains wouldn't be too much bother, I think, but the parcels and fitted freights are nice to have for variety. The lack of V2s may be the deciding factor in the end though.

[great northern]

I'm running out of images again, and I have a visitor today so not much chance to take more. I do have another view of the Immingham B1 though.

 

 

 

The angle is about right, as is the cropping, so I'm happy with this, and b&w works best with it.

 

I then did another of the occasional still life shots, and I rather like this one too.

 

 

[Mallard60022]

5 hours ago, great northern said:

Not as difficult as I first thought Steve. I'd lose some trains that only ran on weekdays, Tees-Tyne Pullman, Talisman, Fair Maid, for example, and the Elizabethan would need a reversed headboard. Most of the Saturday extras though used a lot of Gresley and particularly Thompson stock, including some very interesting combinations. With my latest cassette and spur set up they would not be difficult to put together, though I'd spend more time doing so than I do now. The difficult ones would be some KX- Skegness trains, which would need eight TSOs, either Gresley or MK1.

 

Doing without most of the coal trains wouldn't be too much bother, I think, but the parcels and fitted freights are nice to have for variety. The lack of V2s may be the deciding factor in the end though.

V2s unavailable due to technical checks following an 'incident'. Other engines having to cover the workings.

A. Foreman.

[great northern]

4 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

V2s unavailable due to technical checks following an 'incident'. Other engines having to cover the workings.

A. Foreman.

That would be difficult. The bottom of the barrel had already been scraped on most summer Saturdays. 9Fs were quite regularly used. We might have to borrow some of those spammy things. You have got plenty, after all.

[Mallard60022]

18 minutes ago, great northern said:

That would be difficult. The bottom of the barrel had already been scraped on most summer Saturdays. 9Fs were quite regularly used. We might have to borrow some of those spammy things. You have got plenty, after all.

Brits and Std Class 5s and even more B1s.

P

[geoff west]

Gilbert,

 

Thank you for a most enjoyable day, very informative.

You have got me thinking about Huntingdon North now though.

[great northern]

2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Brits and Std Class 5s and even more B1s.

P

Yes, but, the Brits are all too busy going to the seaside, and Norwich, we only have three STD 5s, and the crews don't like them, and the B1s are going to the seaside too, as they have plenty of KX- Skeggy trips to do. Anyway, they'd all get knackered, as they aren't that big really.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, geoff west said:

Gilbert,

 

Thank you for a most enjoyable day, very informative.

You have got me thinking about Huntingdon North now though.

Good to meet up again Geoff, and I hope the demonstrations of cassettes and how to plan them will prove useful. As to Huntingdon, no doubt TW will put you back on the path of righteousness when he hears about it. Seriously, you could make it work, if you are prepared to accept the necessary compromises. And you could definitely have a J15, which is very good. As I said, if I can help with anything else, just give me a shout.

[great northern]

 A most enjoyable day with Geoff, and I even ran some trains, but they didn't get photographed, so you've missed Silver Link and Dominion of Canada. I expect they wouldn't have been cops anyway. I'm left with just one photo to show, which our man took after turning round from his vantage point for the last one.

 

 

Murky, but not grainy, which it probably should be to get the 1950s look.

[Mallard60022]

10 hours ago, great northern said:

Yes, but, the Brits are all too busy going to the seaside, and Norwich, we only have three STD 5s, and the crews don't like them, and the B1s are going to the seaside too, as they have plenty of KX- Skeggy trips to do. Anyway, they'd all get knackered, as they aren't that big really.

OK but I am not giving up yet. Control have contacted all sheds in the GN and GC district and ordered that anything that can turn a wheel on passenger duty must be made available and that includes Leeds, South Yorkshire, East Riding, north Lincolnshire and Nottingham area sheds. They have even been in touch with 'the enemy' over at Sheffield and  complimented their colleagues on how wonderful the Jubs and B'k 5s are. I also believe a quantity of Bog carts have been acquired from down Lundin as they are not being used on commuter stuff.

P

[Clive Mortimore]

21 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

OK but I am not giving up yet. Control have contacted all sheds in the GN and GC district and ordered that anything that can turn a wheel on passenger duty must be made available and that includes Leeds, South Yorkshire, East Riding, north Lincolnshire and Nottingham area sheds. They have even been in touch with 'the enemy' over at Sheffield and  complimented their colleagues on how wonderful the Jubs and B'k 5s are. I also believe a quantity of Bog carts have been acquired from down Lundin as they are not being used on commuter stuff.

P

Oi Quackers

 

Please address Diesel Multiple Units by their correct name in future.

 

The first special on the GNR formed of DMUs was from Lincolnshire to London, an eight car train formed of Cravens units, not the other way round.

[great northern]

33 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

OK but I am not giving up yet. Control have contacted all sheds in the GN and GC district and ordered that anything that can turn a wheel on passenger duty must be made available and that includes Leeds, South Yorkshire, East Riding, north Lincolnshire and Nottingham area sheds. They have even been in touch with 'the enemy' over at Sheffield and  complimented their colleagues on how wonderful the Jubs and B'k 5s are. I also believe a quantity of Bog carts have been acquired from down Lundin as they are not being used on commuter stuff.

P

Class 5 engines aren't going to do the trick with 13 and 14 coach loads though, whereas everybody knows that V2s were the equivalent of a Pacific, or nearly so, and much much better than so called class 7 engines on other railways.

 

A. Partisan.

[great northern]

An "interesting" half hour. Having said that last night's picture should have been grainy, I went off this morning to take a few more, and, goodness me, they certainly were. " Goodness me" were not my actual words when I saw them, by the way. A brief Corporal Jones period followed, after which I looked for answers and soon found one. ISO set to 2500 How that happened I do not know. Anyway, I set it back to 80, where I think it was before, and peace and order were restored.

 

I've no time to run trains this morning, but fortunately the 6.40 slow from KX was sitting at Platform 6, and looking very nice, so I got a shot of that, and here it is.

 

 

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Class 5 engines aren't going to do the trick with 13 and 14 coach loads though, whereas everybody knows that V2s were the equivalent of a Pacific, or nearly so, and much much better than so called class 7 engines on other railways.

 

A. Partisan.

Agreed, but two Black 5s could shift that. Still trying...…….

P

[gwrrob]

Off topic I know but congratulations Gilbert on your team getting promoted today.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

Off topic I know but congratulations Gilbert on your team getting promoted today.

Thanks Rob, I don't mind off topics like that. I've been a supporter for nearly seventy years, through thick and thin, and there seems to have been far more of the latter. The last three years have been fantastic, and I'm very happy tonight.

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Thanks Rob, I don't mind off topics like that. I've been a supporter for nearly seventy years, through thick and thin, and there seems to have been far more of the latter. The last three years have been fantastic, and I'm very happy tonight.

….and it may be that we meet next season, the way my lot did not play today. Useless is a compliment!

Ar$£

 

[great northern]

Foursomes today, which doesn't mean what some of you naughty people might think. It is a format in which each player of two takes alternate shots, and would then say "sorry mate", if that hadn't been banned by agreement before the start. Anyway, we have qualified for the knockout stage, though we tried hard not to.

 

Having sorted out the camera, I did get time for a couple more images this morning, so here is a J6 which has sneaked into the bay so that porters can throw things about.

 

 

 

Someone was determined to get a side on view, despite the clutter in the way.

 

 

[great northern]

Very strange. I can get on here via e-mail, but if I try to get on direct I keep getting "bad gateway". Has someone got it in for me?

[Herbert Nigel]

Nope, don’t think so (unless I’ve done something really bad that I don’t know I did). I had the same problem. Eventually I had to delete my saved link to the site, reload the site again as a “favourite” and now it seems to be all working again. I put it down to this new fangled technology wot needs feeding gold tokens (apparently).

[Bogie]

4 hours ago, great northern said:

Very strange. I can get on here via e-mail, but if I try to get on direct I keep getting "bad gateway". Has someone got it in for me?

 

Yes it is bizarre I am having the same issue.