jazzer Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 31 minutes ago, Denbridge said: Not to belittle George, but Rocket was the work of his son, Robert. George played no part in the design. He was a bit busy, building the L&M. Yes a point we’ll made. Since you mention the L&M lets say then filling in Chat Moss to build the line across it , which I think is still in operation today. The point is those old railways pioneers worked so many things out themselves that still hold good today 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 2 hours ago, jazzer said: Yes a point we’ll made. Since you mention the L&M lets say then filling in Chat Moss to build the line across it , which I think is still in operation today. The point is those old railways pioneers worked so many things out themselves that still hold good today Not so much filling-in Chat Moss - surely it's still there? What George did was, to all intents and purposes, to 'float' the railway across Chat Moss. OK, it slowly sank to the bottom as more fill was piled on top of the floating base, but the genius was in conceiving the floating foundations. (Though I've a feeling that the Romans did something similar). Regards, John Isherwood. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2019 Enterprise's train is rather shorter than the norm, so the loco is able to stop short of some of the usual things that get in the way when taking a photo. A request to move the hammer to the other hand was ignored. Sneaking into the excursion platform came 60010, which not only has the menial job of taking the 8.10 to Grantham, but has also had to go and get its own stock. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 19, 2019 Another sunny morning. The promised fog has not occurred, and the golf course is open. So, with carry bag, a few clubs, and some frogman's flippers, if I can get my hands on some, off I shall go a bit later on. Not many A4s are seen at Platform 6, so 60010 got snapped again. This is one of the dwindling number of untimmed A4s, and it does show up in this shot. The 8.30 to Melton Constable is in the bay platform. Until 1957 Melton had some Clauds, though they were mainly, if not exclusively, used on trains to Norwich and the Cromer area. Today there has been a late Ivatt failure, and so one of Spital Bridge's D16s is standing in. Did someone say that it is a New England duty, and that shed has plenty of spare Ivatts? Must be fake news. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 That man gets everywhere Trumping people. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 19, 2019 Mud, mud, glorious mud. Sunny and very fresh air though. We all agreed nine holes was quite enough, and had a drink. The gloom is gathering at PN as the light begins to fade, and a K3 runs through with a Hitchin to Colwick Class D. Even gloomier under the roof, of course. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2019 Another lovely sunny day. It is 8.10pm at PN, and Happy Knight arrives with the 5.15 Hull-KX, as Dominion of Canada starts away for Grantham If we just let the A2 come on a bit further, we can get the D16 in shot too. 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted November 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2019 Here is something to complement your room Gilbert. The catalogue for Great Central Auctions 7th December sale dropped through the letterbox this morning. Within is a totem for Peterborough North (one for Peterborough East as well).....tempting? I purchased a Totem for 'Sandy' about 6/7 years ago, it cost me about £2000 but it is the cleanest one I've seen. It was a lot of money but I do get a lot of satisfaction when I see it on the wall over the layout. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 20, 2019 47 minutes ago, chris p bacon said: Here is something to complement your room Gilbert. The catalogue for Great Central Auctions 7th December sale dropped through the letterbox this morning. Within is a totem for Peterborough North (one for Peterborough East as well).....tempting? I purchased a Totem for 'Sandy' about 6/7 years ago, it cost me about £2000 but it is the cleanest one I've seen. It was a lot of money but I do get a lot of satisfaction when I see it on the wall over the layout. It would be on the "nice to have if I won the lottery" list, but I really do have quite a lot of things which would take priority for that sort of money. It has been a very expensive year! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 On 19/11/2019 at 08:31, great northern said: Another sunny morning. The promised fog has not occurred, and the golf course is open. So, with carry bag, a few clubs, and some frogman's flippers, if I can get my hands on some, off I shall go a bit later on. Not many A4s are seen at Platform 6, so 60010 got snapped again. This is one of the dwindling number of untimmed A4s, and it does show up in this shot. The 8.30 to Melton Constable is in the bay platform. Until 1957 Melton had some Clauds, though they were mainly, if not exclusively, used on trains to Norwich and the Cromer area. Today there has been a late Ivatt failure, and so one of Spital Bridge's D16s is standing in. Did someone say that it is a New England duty, and that shed has plenty of spare Ivatts? Must be fake news. That wonderful picture of the D16 ready to go over the M&GN reminds of a story from R. H.N . Hardy in one of the magazines some years ago. Long before the days when Elf en Sayftee were invented , when Dick Hardy was Mechanical Foreman at South Lynn, a Claud was due to take a train out when a leaking firebox stay was discovered in the firebox , which would have needed the loco to be taken out of service and the train cancelled. But railwaymen had a strong sense of duty in those days so the shed foreman, according to Hardy, ordered the fire to be moved across to the opposite side of the firebox, then he wrapped himself in wet sacks, climbed into the fire box hand hammered the rivet in to stop the leak and the D16 took the train out. If the story had come from from anyone else other than Dick Hardy I would have difficulty believing it but he has a whole raft of similar personal experiences from the ‘40’s and 50’s of heroic efforts railwaymen made in those time to keep the trains running , often with run down, worn out machinery, to be paid shirt buttons, with no thanks from an unappreciative public. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted November 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2019 7 hours ago, great northern said: It would be on the "nice to have if I won the lottery" list, but I really do have quite a lot of things which would take priority for that sort of money. It has been a very expensive year! Expensive....I know exactly what you mean They're certainly a lottery win item, I had to build a 3 bedroom house before I could buy mine 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2019 Tonight we have Happy Knight at rest. and starting to come towards the cameraman, who will be well advised to step back shortly. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 21, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2019 Easy caption for this morning's images- what a difference a day makes. The second Down Cleethorpes had just appeared at the end of a running session on a very dark day, and this was the best shot I could get. After this, I gave up, so the next day the B1 was still in the same position, but I now had wall to wall sunshine, which meant I could get this. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 21, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2019 Unpleasant things going on at the golf club at present, so I'm not a very happy bunny. There are some nasty people on this planet. Never mind, I will concentrate on more pleasant happenings, such as those on a fine evening in the summer of 58. Here's the Immingham B1 again. while the D16 won't be leaving for a few minutes yet. 24 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Just now, great northern said: Unpleasant things going on at the golf club at present, so I'm not a very happy bunny. It strikes me that it is a good thing that you have Peterborough North with which to calm your ire - I thought that golf was supposed to be a relaxing sport ?!? I'm glad that anything competitive - especially if it involves balls - has always done absolutely nothing for me ! Regards, John Isherwood. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2019 21 minutes ago, cctransuk said: It strikes me that it is a good thing that you have Peterborough North with which to calm your ire - I thought that golf was supposed to be a relaxing sport ?!? I'm glad that anything competitive - especially if it involves balls - has always done absolutely nothing for me ! Regards, John Isherwood. It's the politics and personalities John, not the game itself. As Chairman, I'm there to be shot at, and some people do just that. Only two months more of my term left though. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 G'Day Folks Pssssssssst, wanna buy a hot firearm, with ammo, only cost you a K2. manna 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2019 1 hour ago, manna said: G'Day Folks Pssssssssst, wanna buy a hot firearm, with ammo, only cost you a K2. manna Free postage from Oz? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted November 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2019 44 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Free postage from Oz? Tracked and signed for? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 22, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2019 3 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks Pssssssssst, wanna buy a hot firearm, with ammo, only cost you a K2. manna A K2? No way. Now if you had said a Pannier, that might be different. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 22, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2019 A real bonus now, as another D16 appears, this one with a Leicester local. Hidden behind the D16's stock in that image was another WD on the Down slow. It now comes into view, and catches up with 62613, which is slowing for its stop at Platform 6. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2019 (edited) After a couple of weeks in Sherry's flat, where I use a MacBook Pro laptop for Internet access, I am now back home - and the 27" screen on the iMac makes Gilbert's pics stand out even more. These are so good! Edited November 22, 2019 by Oldddudders 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 22, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2019 I think there are probably more locos on view in this shot than in any other I have so far posted on here. and at no extra charge. Cleethorpes, Melton Constable, Leicester and New England, such exotic destinations. Back now to the lines on the right of that image. The D16 has just stopped, but got slightly ahead of the WD again, whose driver has the task of gently bringing loose coupled stock to a halt not far ahead. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 23, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2019 Wet and dark again today, but I shall try to make some progress with the sequence, which is again coimng towards the end. First up today though is a real bonus, two D16s in one image. By the time the 1145am from Dundee comes into view, the Leicester has gone, but 62530 is still patiently waiting. Once again, lamps which look OK to the naked eye are made to look like milk churns by the camera. 29 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 23, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2019 We can of course also have close cropped Clauds. and a more side on view of Curlew. 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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