Peterborough North

[jwealleans]

Really, Derek.   How can you read Gilbert's thread and not mention Silver Fox?

 

Especially as it's at the top of the page.

[great northern]

8 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

Really, Derek.   How can you read Gilbert's thread and not mention Silver Fox?

 

Especially as it's at the top of the page.

Or 60165 Legal Eagle.

[great northern]

Update. So far today I have resisted  the urge to do anything remotely constructive. Here is Sir Nigel beneath the ramshackle roof.

 

 

 

 

You can see how ramshackle the roof is by the fact that a lot of a recent violent hailstorm has got through, and is now lying on the platforms.

[great northern]

We were promised heavy rain. Where is it? Probably waiting for me to go out walking. Jolly cold again though. I did something earlier, but quite soon I stopped again.

 

There are more people gathering on the forecourt. It could get crowded if this carries on.

 

 

[great northern]

I was only able to load one image just now. Don't know why, it didn't tell me I had exceeded anything. Here, I hope, is a B1 on the 3.58 to Grantham.

 

 

Zooming again.

Edited April 29, 2020 by great northern
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[bigwordsmith]

Posted this earlier, but it didn’t stick ..

 

it’s been chucking it down in Sussex most of the day!

[great northern]

Not much done today, but then there was no requirement to do anything in particular. Hair is still attached, and will wait until at least Friday, to allow the weekly clapping to take place without unnecessary embarrasment.

 

Into Platform 6 comes a Doncaster based 9F.

 

 

It heads another York bound parcels, and stops here for a while, which allows another rake of empties to come along side on the slow, and give us two 9Fs for the price of one.

 

 

 

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

11 hours ago, great northern said:

Update. So far today I have resisted  the urge to do anything remotely constructive. Here is Sir Nigel beneath the ramshackle roof.

 

 

 

 

You can see how ramshackle the roof is by the fact that a lot of a recent violent hailstorm has got through, and is now lying on the platforms.

True story. Before Mrs M became Mrs M she would accompany me to railway related things. We went to the Norwich Crown Point open day and there was a big blue thing with a pointy front on display. "Oh look there is Sir Nigel Gresley" I said. "You know someone with a knighthood?" she asked.

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Before Mrs M became Mrs M she would accompany me to railway related things.

She doesn't bother now, I assume.

[Clive Mortimore]

7 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

She doesn't bother now, I assume.

Not since we got married 33 years ago. She has been to a few social events when she can join up with the other wives and take the micky out of us puffer nutters.

[Woodcock29]

52 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

She doesn't bother now, I assume.

Sounds familiar.

[great northern]

Sunny and windy today. Plenty to do, but will I do it? I will do the morning images, the first of which is again of a WD and coal for London.

 

 

I've been cropping this view lately, but I thought we'd have the full panorama for a change.

 

In contrast, we have a very close crop of an L1 passing Crescent Junction box with the 2.45 from Hitchin.

 

 

[great northern]

1100 again already. I have spent most of the morning trying to read my "smart" gas meter, on the basis of " I wonder what happens if I press this button". It would help if there were some instructions. Anyway, pressing the red button blew nothing up, and when I hit the black one afterwards, I got a reading.

 

Her's the L1 again to go with our mug of tea.

 

 

[manna]

G'day Folks.

 

That's a good shot, the L1 just fits.

 

manna

Edited April 30, 2020 by manna

[great northern]

13 minutes ago, manna said:

G'day Folks.

 

That's a good shot, the L1 just fits.

 

manna

It needed careful positioning, but yes, it just did.

[great northern]

In addition to running and photographing trains, I have also been cleaning up the railway tip, I mean room, and I'm now really beginning to see the effects and the benefits. Here's where my toolboxes now live, under baseboard at north end of the fiddle yard, for those interested.

 

 

This area was a chaotic mess, so I'm very pleased to have transformed it into this. Moving the two toolboxes has also created much more free space under the island baseboard. We are under the station buildings here.

 

 

apart from looking a lot better, this now gives me a second duck under to access the window side of the layout, and one which is easier on the back than the existing one. It also provides space for one of the guest's chairs.

 

Was this worth the effort? Absolutely.

Edited April 30, 2020 by great northern
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[great northern]

I had a cunning plan today. As showers were forecast, I decided to run and photograph trains during the lighter spells, and do more tidying up when darkness descended. Thus , some of both occurred, and I have more photos to process.

 

And while sipping our mug of tea, we can have another look at that L1, now at rest having completed its journey.

 

 

[bigwordsmith]

Quick off topic please Gilbert?

 

just in case any of our two or three mutual friends don’t get an alert from my thread (Waverley Route Revisited) I have just popped a lengthy post, with some actual progress to report!

 

click on the link in my signature, and go to the last page...

 

”Now, back to the records....” 

 

Tx Gilbert 

[great northern]

5 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said:

Quick off topic please Gilbert?

 

just in case any of our two or three mutual friends don’t get an alert from my thread (Waverley Route Revisited) I have just popped a lengthy post, with some actual progress to report!

 

click on the link in my signature, and go to the last page...

 

”Now, back to the records....” 

 

Tx Gilbert 

Yes, I've seen it Peter, and I'm pondering as to what my response may be. I think you may still be over complicating a bit. There's a very definite limit to what one operator can do at any time, particularly if there is to be no fiddle yard. Needs more thought before I come back to you though.

[great northern]

Another day nearly gone, and at least I got more done than I did yesterday. Another B17 for you tonight, Kimbolton Castle. It will be taking the 4.32 to Harwich for part of its journey.

 

 

And now another experiment. The camera is on Spital Bridge again, but more towards the centre. We know that the parapet was too high to see over in that area, so someone must have found something to stand on, and it must have been quite tall. Here is the result. The 9F at platform 6 is departing, and this is the view we get.

 

 

Oh, and it is zoomed as well. What do you reckon?

[Adrian Stevenson]

I think it is a great shot.

[BurscoughCurves]

42 minutes ago, great northern said:

Another day nearly gone, and at least I got more done than I did yesterday. Another B17 for you tonight, Kimbolton Castle. It will be taking the 4.32 to Harwich for part of its journey.

 

 

And now another experiment. The camera is on Spital Bridge again, but more towards the centre. We know that the parapet was too high to see over in that area, so someone must have found something to stand on, and it must have been quite tall. Here is the result. The 9F at platform 6 is departing, and this is the view we get.

 

 

Oh, and it is zoomed as well. What do you reckon?

Hi Gilbert,

 

I like the lower shot; it shows the flow of the station very nicely and gives a sense of what might have been seen.

 

All the best,

Pete

[St Enodoc]

9 hours ago, bigwordsmith said:

Quick off topic please Gilbert?

 

just in case any of our two or three mutual friends don’t get an alert from my thread (Waverley Route Revisited) I have just popped a lengthy post, with some actual progress to report!

 

click on the link in my signature, and go to the last page...

 

”Now, back to the records....” 

 

Tx Gilbert 

Now following Peter. Lovely view of the Downs by the way. Sometimes I miss Sussex just a little...

[great northern]

Here we are again.  A bit dull and windy, but I have a new vacuum cleaner to unpack, so there will be great excitement shortly in these parts. This morning we have another look at 61633 on its way under the bridge, and about to branch off down the chord to East.

 

 

As always, the Up main doesn't stay quiet for long, and a J6 with a short transit goods soon appears. It is first seen from that high vantage point on Spital Bridge.

 

 

and then from the safety of ground level.

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Now following Peter. Lovely view of the Downs by the way. Sometimes I miss Sussex just a little...

There is an easy but long way round to miss Sussex. From Hampshire go up to Surrey then down into Kent or the other way round. Or if you have boat sail into the Channel and not stop until you reach Kent.