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Something different. I have at least one family of woodpeckers visiting my feeders at present, and one family has had two fledglings perched on the fence while Mum or Dad gets provisions from my peanut feeder. Sometimes the adult also shoots off into a tree, so there may be more young still in the nest. Anyway, a bit earlier, one of those on the fence got tired of waiting to be fed, so decided to help itself.

 

 

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Quite a distance away, low light and hand held, so this was the best I could do, but I thought it was worth sharing.

 

 

 

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Thanks for all the help on my Thompson kitchen car from people on here a few weeks ago. It’s now finished, so I thought I’d show the final result.

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I managed to sort out the underframe fairly well. Jonathan’s trick of twisting the dynamos with pliers seemed to work well - thanks! I had some problems with getting it to go round curves without the bogies fouling the underframe which I don’t remember on these conversions before. But some ruthless filing away of plastic seems to have sorted it.

 

Not having to bother with an interior is definitely a time saver.

 

Andy

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On 12/06/2019 at 22:26, great northern said:

A whole round of golf without getting wet. What's more, we finished only one point behind the winners, and finished........ninth.:O Some old fool three putted four times on the back nine too. This evening though, the monsoon has returned in full force.

 

Here is another shot of Sun Castle, as it starts away towards Grantham.

 

 

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What did you expect? Honeyway? Ocean Swell? No such luck.

 

 

 

 

How about 60521 Watling Street racing through Peterborough North Station.

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28 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

My limited understanding of PN in Gilbert's timeframe says that nothing ever raced through due to the track config.  

 

15 mph speed limit for those reverse curves. Major consideration in the rebuild of the station.

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2 hours ago, landscapes said:

 

How about 60521 Watling Street racing through Peterborough North Station.

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Not racing, as noted below, but a loco which in a previous incarnation was Watling Street still runs on PN.  It was 60521 when it ran on Stoke Summit, and Tony offered it to me many years ago when he was upgrading to DJH A2s. When the present PN started, I decided to change it to 60513 Dante, a much more common sight. Tony was most understanding, I'm pleased to say, even though it had been one of his early locos.

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22 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

15 mph speed limit for those reverse curves. Major consideration in the rebuild of the station.

20 mph actually, as can be seen below.

 

 

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Why do I worry about strong light?

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5 minutes ago, great northern said:

Not racing, as noted below, but a loco which in a previous incarnation was Watling Street still runs on PN.  It was 60521 when it ran on Stoke Summit, and Tony offered it to me many years ago when he was upgrading to DJH A2s. When the present PN started, I decided to change it to 60513 Dante, a much more common sight. Tony was most understanding, I'm pleased to say, even though it had been one of his early locos.

Hi Gilbert 

 

sorry I clearly forgot about the speed restriction through Peterborough North Station.

 

incidentally 60513 Dante was one of only three Thompson A2/3’s I  ever saw.

 

Regards

 

David

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21 hours ago, landscapes said:

Hi Gilbert 

 

sorry I clearly forgot about the speed restriction through Peterborough North Station.

 

incidentally 60513 Dante was one of only three Thompson A2/3’s I  ever saw.

 

Regards

 

David

 

Dante was the only A2/3 I ever rode behind. Mallard whisked us down from KX toPN early , hitting 90 on the way, only to come off at PN and be replaced by Dante which lost 6 minutes struggling puffing and panting up (i.e down )to Grantham . Terribly disappointing.

 Not surprising that Thompson never joined Gresley in the Rock n Roll Hall,Of Fame.

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On 14/06/2019 at 10:58, thegreenhowards said:

Thanks for all the help on my Thompson kitchen car from people on here a few weeks ago. It’s now finished, so I thought I’d show the final result.

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I managed to sort out the underframe fairly well. Jonathan’s trick of twisting the dynamos with pliers seemed to work well - thanks! I had some problems with getting it to go round curves without the bogies fouling the underframe which I don’t remember on these conversions before. But some ruthless filing away of plastic seems to have sorted it.

 

Not having to bother with an interior is definitely a time saver.

 

Andy

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20 hours ago, great northern said:

Tonight we have Wild Swan waiting for the off, while an L1 arrives with the 2.45pm from Hitchin.

 

 

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a litle while later the L1 has reached journey's end, and Wild Swan's train is still at the adjoining platform.

 

 

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Could you have a word with the photographer and see if he has anymore negatives of the L1 he could develop and let us see ? There don't seem to have been many of them through PN, although the only one I ever saw there was slipping and sliding trying to get a three coach local ( presumably to Nottingham ) on the move.

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1 hour ago, jazzer said:

 

Could you have a word with the photographer and see if he has anymore negatives of the L1 he could develop and let us see ? There don't seem to have been many of them through PN, although the only one I ever saw there was slipping and sliding trying to get a three coach local ( presumably to Nottingham ) on the move.

I'm afraid not. The loco had to reverse its stock to the carriage sidings pretty sharpish, as it is busy on the Down main at present. There were two ways an L1 might get to PN, either from Hitchin, or from Grantham. Back in the distant past we discussed whether Grantham did use them on the locals, and I came to the conclusion that it must have occurred occasionally. Hitchin had lots of them though, and the choice for this mid afternoon stopper would almost certainly have been either a B1 or an L1. My Hitchin B1 is not very well, so the L1 got the job. And how could I have resisted one when Hornby announced it?

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