Peterborough North

[great northern]

Let's have another look at a little seen area, this time to the right of the main entrance.

 

 

 

Over to the West, the 8.10 to Grantham is on its way, while the Ivatt has another twenty minutes or so before it heads off towards Melton Constable.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Last chance this evening for anyone wanting to get to Stamford Oakham and Leicester, or the villages in between. D16 62530 comes into view.

 

 

 

and as always, we want to see both sides of a Claud.

 

 

[Oldddudders]

" I've looked at Clauds from both sides now 
From up and down and still somehow 
It's Claud's illusions I recall 
I really don't know Clauds at all…"

 

With apologies to Joni Mitchell.

[great northern]

Tonight we have a mixed goods from Letchworth. Unusually, it has been allowed along the main, which means this rarely used signal arm will allow access to New England yards.

 

 

 

This turned out to be a good location also for looking back towards the station, and so despite the cramped location, we had two men positioned up here. This is what the other one saw.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Today began with a visit to the surgery to have blood taken, something I do not like very much at all.  That is now done, thank goodness, and I shall play with my trains instead, before golf in the heat.

 

Photographers are still lurking along the Midland sidings up by Spital Bridge, and so could record the departure of the D16 towards Leicester.

 

 

 

Next on the Up was fish from New Clee.

 

 

 

Just had a phone call to tell me that important railway room developments scheduled for tomorrow or early next week have been postponed for a fortnight.

[trw1089]

That Claud really is something, such a diminutive looking loco.

[great northern]

It was very hot. The golf club involved, not ours, then decided to serve us pie and chips for dinner. I did without. What might have been better? How about fish. And by sheer coincidence, here is quite a lot of it.

 

 

 

Fish was followed by coal, headed by a 9F this time.

 

 

That's a lot of lattices and ladders, lads. Worth the effort this time though.

[westerner]

Agreed, excellent shots again Gilbert.

[great northern]

No curtains in the room where my PC resides at the moment, and the sun is shining diagonally across the screen, so I can see very little. I will do my best.

 

9Fs are very impressive beasts, so a portrait now and then is a good thing.

 

 

 

61282 then arrives with its regular turn, the 5.52 from KX.

 

 

 

I will now give up on the PC till the sun moves round.

[davidw]

Gilbert, I know from databases and photographic records that the ECML had a good number of 9F's allocated to them and ex-lner 2-8-0's - I just wondered if they were used interchangably on the same workings?  

[thegreenhowards]

I love the work stained B1 and the leading Gresley BSK(6). What are their provenances?

 

Andy

[great northern]

1 hour ago, davidw said:

Gilbert, I know from databases and photographic records that the ECML had a good number of 9F's allocated to them and ex-lner 2-8-0's - I just wondered if they were used interchangably on the same workings?  

One of the slightly frustrating things about PN is that most of the LNER 2.8.0s ended their journeys that tantalising mile further North. Really I should be using almost exclusively WDs and 9Fs, which do seem to have been used interchangably by New England.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, thegreenhowards said:

I love the work stained B1 and the leading Gresley BSK(6). What are their provenances?

 

Andy

 Next shots were going to be of the formation Andy, so I've brought them forward.

 

 

 

 

 

Four cars was the core formation, specified as two TSOs topped and tailed by BCKs. From what I've gathered though TSOs and SKs were used randomly, so I did that with this train.

 

The B1 is Timmed Hornby. That leading BCK says Hornby underneath, but I'm pretty sure it is one that Larry Goddard did as a conversion with proper sides. The rear BCK is definitely Lawrence/Goddard

[davidw]

15 minutes ago, great northern said:

One of the slightly frustrating things about PN is that most of the LNER 2.8.0s ended their journeys that tantalising mile further North. Really I should be using almost exclusively WDs and 9Fs, which do seem to have been used interchangably by New England.

 

Thanks  Gilbert - its your railway.... 

[thegreenhowards]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

 Next shots were going to be of the formation Andy, so I've brought them forward.

 

 

 

 

 

Four cars was the core formation, specified as two TSOs topped and tailed by BCKs. From what I've gathered though TSOs and SKs were used randomly, so I did that with this train.

 

The B1 is Timmed Hornby. That leading BCK says Hornby underneath, but I'm pretty sure it is one that Larry Goddard did as a conversion with proper sides. The rear BCK is definitely Lawrence/Goddard

A nice rake, thanks for showing us. I couldn’t see the ‘1’s on the BCK in the first picture hence my confusing it for a BSK.

[great northern]

Time for another A3, this time 60048, a Grantham engine till recently, but now at Top Shed. It has charge of an Up FO West Riding train, composed mainly of MK1 corridor seconds.

 

 

 

 

Still 27 degrees in here, it is going to be a sticky night. Much cooler tomorrow though.

[Clive Mortimore]

Hi Gilbert

 

Is it my eyesight or is that TSO/SO/SK second in the last photo, sagging in the middle? 

 

 

I bet he will say yes owing to the fat bald bloke in the center compartment.

[robmcg]

Lens distortion.    Works for me.  Cheers.

 

Repeat after me,  'the eye forgives....'   

[great northern]

4 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Gilbert

 

Is it my eyesight or is that TSO/SO/SK second in the last photo, sagging in the middle? 

 

 

I bet he will say yes owing to the fat bald bloke in the center compartment.

It's the camera as usual Clive. It is a standard Bachmann MK1, and it hasn't even sagged in the heat, as the photo was taken a few days ago. Rest assured Clive, were you to travel in any of my trains, I would make sure you were in first class.

[great northern]

Trying to sleep, with the benefit of a nice fan blowing cooler air over me, when suddenly..... power cut, no fan and very hot indeed. Two hours later, power restored, rather too late.

 

A K1 has sidled into Platform 6 with a short parcels train, which has come all the way from East.

 

 

 

On the main, one of the local A2/2s is also on Class C duties again. Finsbury Park to York, this one.

 

 

[45156]

I love the pics, Gilbert.  Still not too sure on the Thompson A2s though.  They look very ungainly compared to the Gresley and Peppercorn pacifics.

[davidw]

Thompson a2s were part of the scene. Roll on an RTR version

[great northern]

56 minutes ago, 45156 said:

I love the pics, Gilbert.  Still not too sure on the Thompson A2s though.  They look very ungainly compared to the Gresley and Peppercorn pacifics.

That's because they were!  They have a definite presence, but aesthetically there is no contest. The same applies to performance, I'm afraid. That's why they were at New England, which was primarily a goods shed.

[great northern]

25 minutes ago, davidw said:

Thompson a2s were part of the scene. Roll on an RTR version

Just possibly an A2/3 David, but I can't see an A2/2 ever appearing, particularly as no two were alike.

[davidw]

TBH if one appears, I hope Hornby  take a crack at it...

Edited July 26, 2019 by davidw