Peterborough North

[FarrMan]

I rather liked the look of the baby deltics, otherwise known as EE type 2 or Class 23. Not very successful mechanically, but good on looks.

[bigwordsmith]

SO should we combine classes 26 & 27 then as they were near as dammit the same loco?

[Clive Mortimore]

7 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said:

SO should we combine classes 26 & 27 then as they were near as dammit the same loco?

Depends if we are going to use a pre 1974(?) Ian Allan ABC or a post '74 one?

[CUTLER2579]

Pre 1974 of course.

[jwealleans]

Pre 1974?   This is 1958, dammit!    Get with it, daddy-O.

[bigwordsmith]

which one allows us to combine them?

 

[great northern]

1 hour ago, jwealleans said:

Pre 1974?   This is 1958, dammit!    Get with it, daddy-O.

Yes but, if its 1958, forget this poll, because most of the candidates didn't yet exist.

 

I should have realised we were opening a can of worms here. And we haven't even got to 37s and 47s, and all the myriad detail variations of those. Not that I know what they are, I just know that they exist, and that some people get very worked up when the manufacturers don't do the specific one or two that they want. Nothing like that with steam engines of course, except curly sixes maybe Or double chimneys I suppose, and different tenders maybe, and possibly one or two other minor things.

[jwealleans]

Diesels, diseasels.    I'm not keen (sorry, Clive).   One of them ate the Fat Controller's hat, you know.

 

[great northern]

I've just realised I hadn't run trains or taken any photos for nearly a week. That's been put right now though, and the first few moves of the new sequence have gone almost entirely smoothly.

 

Tea will be followed by a long walk on a lovely afternoon and then duck for dinner. I like duck.

 

Our featured train is the 7.30 FO KX-Aberdeen, running rather late, as it wasn't on the old sequence, and I'd forgotten it.

 

 

This is our only train which contains sleeping cars, so we shall have another look at some of them.

 

 

Very impressive cars, these, and many thanks again to Andy The Green Howards for making them for me. I would like some of the Gresley 66ft 6 cars as well, but sadly that doesn't seem to be possible at the moment.

[davidw]

8 minutes ago, great northern said:

I've just realised I hadn't run trains or taken any photos for nearly a week. That's been put right now though, and the first few moves of the new sequence have gone almost entirely smoothly.

 

Tea will be followed by a long walk on a lovely afternoon and then duck for dinner. I like duck.

 

Our featured train is the 7.30 FO KX-Aberdeen, running rather late, as it wasn't on the old sequence, and I'd forgotten it.

 

 

This is our only train which contains sleeping cars, so we shall have another look at some of them.

 

 

Very impressive cars, these, and many thanks again to Andy The Green Howards for making them for me. I would like some of the Gresley 66ft 6 cars as well, but sadly that doesn't seem to be possible at the moment.

Oh Like!

[mullie]

Brush Type 2 later Class 31.

 

Martyn

[CUTLER2579]

Gilbert,

i am very surprised at you

Quote :- "Tea will be followed by a long walk on a lovely afternoon and then duck for dinner. I like duck. "

 

What ever can our feathered friend in Retford be thinking.He's such a sensitive soul.

 

Derek friend of Arse

[great northern]

32 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said:

Gilbert,

i am very surprised at you

Quote :- "Tea will be followed by a long walk on a lovely afternoon and then duck for dinner. I like duck. "

 

What ever can our feathered friend in Retford be thinking.He's such a sensitive soul.

 

Derek friend of Arse

He is an honorary duck, and thus safe from harm. It was I, years back now, who first referred to him as the Mighty Duck, and it stuck. Anyway, he wouldn't fit in my oven.

[Woollydog]

I rather like the original Derby/Sulzer later class 24/0 in two-tone green that ran out of both Kings Cross and Liverpool Street ...

[CHAZ D]

Class 33. one of the longest serving early diseasels with a very long life and the first diseasel I remember seeing at Earley station in the early sixties

[great northern]

Getting late here now, as it was at PN all those years ago. The last but one train of the sequence was the 1002 arrival from Grantham, the light having miraculously held out so that we can see the arrival of Knight of Thistle.

 

 

The line of vans in the Midland sidings was not intentional, but I think it does a lot for both of these images. Just ties everyhting together nicely, if you see what I mean.

[Market65]

Having thought about the type 2 diesels carefully today, I am going with the Brush Type 2, class 31.

 

Rob.

[thegreenhowards]

Class 26 for me. Beautifully proportioned and they sound great too,

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

The vote for a diesel, having spent many happy years pottering around on Brush 2's, they get my vote.

 

manna

 

 

[St Enodoc]

12 hours ago, bigwordsmith said:

SO should we combine classes 26 & 27 then as they were near as dammit the same loco?

No.

[St Enodoc]

4 hours ago, CHAZ D said:

Class 33. one of the longest serving early diseasels with a very long life and the first diseasel I remember seeing at Earley station in the early sixties

Hold your horses! That's a Type 3. We're still on Type 2s.

[Woodcock29]

I do like an English Electric and I know they were failures but a Baby Deltic, Class 23 for me.

 

Andrew

[JeffP]

Brush Type 2, but specifically those built without headcode boxes.

[jollysmart]

Brush type 2, just something about them.

[Oldddudders]

No contest for me - Derby Sulzer Type 2, later called Class 24. The first mainline diesel I saw was D5009 in the up yard at Redhill, probably July 1960.