Peterborough North

[St Enodoc]

Brush Type 4.

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

The only thing is the Castle votes don't specify which one.

Well, I did specify Collett Castles, to distinguish them from those of Mr Drummond...

[3rd Rail Exile]

+1 for the English Electric Type 3

[TrevorP1]

Regarding the poll for the diesel I'm tempted to vote for an HST power car but I'm not sure if that's 'in the spirit' so I'll go for the Class 37/English Electric type 3.

[TrevorP1]

I'd just like to say thank you to Gilbert for being the host for these polls. Although I've missed some it has been something to look out for each day. I wonder, when this Covid business is over -whenever/if ever that might be - if it would be interesting to see a listing of our choices?

[great northern]

Very gloomy outside. Might as well be raining, so why doesn't it get on with it?  The fortnightly duvet wrestling is over again, and I'm not sure what to do next, so tea break and photo while I consider that.

 

 

Lots of zoom, maybe too much, I think.

[Market65]

Well, for today’s poll, it’s definitely the EE Type 3, class 37.

 

Rob.

[Bloodnok]

Has to be a Class 47 for today's poll.

[A Murphy]

Brush type 4 for me please.

 

Alastair M

[FarrMan]

I can't say that I like them, but the 37 gets the most ticks from me. Must be all that standing around in long grass!

 

Lloyd

[CUTLER2579]

Brush Type 4 i.e Class 47. by a Mile.

[60027Merlin]

Class 37

 

So versatile and still going strong.

 

 

[Metropolitan H]

+1 for the Brush Type 4 / aka Class 47.

 

Regards

Chris H

[thegreenhowards]

Class 37 for me.

[37Oban]

Has to Class 37!

[westerner]

Brush type 2 later class 31

[great northern]

Went to pick up shopping from Melton. No problem. Get home, find that one of last week's bags fell off the rear seat on the way home, and cunningly camouflaged itself among some empty bags in the footwell. After a week, some things might still have been OK, tins, box of tissues, that sort of thing. But of course that bag contained fruit and vegetables, so today they are somewhat squishy. Why didn't I notice those things were missing? Dunno.

 

Here is Thane of Fife, which has just taken over a parcels that came up from Edinburgh overnight.

 

 

[jwealleans]

On 02/06/2020 at 19:45, great northern said:

Could I have your help please in selecting categories for a coaching stock poll?

 

It's a tricky one and although it was my idea I haven't come up with anything I think is a clever way of doing it.    Probably pre-, during and post-grouping (i.e. after 1948) would be the easiest categories to go for, but there's still a chance you'll get a whole heap of candidates with one vote each. 

 

What about 'favourite carriage on Gilbert's layout'?   There's a chance for people to go back over the thread and indulge in a bit of nostalgia while they choose.

Edited June 4, 2020 by jwealleans

[great northern]

Tonight we see 60505 again, from the spotters viewpoint on Platform 3.

 

 

Not so far away, our local Claud is once again tasked with bringing in the East shuttle.

 

 

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Probably a bit late, but Class 47, great all round loco.

 

manna

[great northern]

Early golf today, so here are the morning images. Coal is the theme. WD plodding away to the South.

 

 

And about seven minutes later the Little Barford load is on its way. We've borrowed an 01 for this job today.

 

 

[great northern]

I'll count the poll later chaps, but so you have something to occupy your minds this morning, here is today's poll.  If a time machine arrived at your door, and you could go to any decade in the 20th century to watch trains for a day, which decade would you choose?  It would be interesting to know why as well.

[Clive Mortimore]

The nineteen, tens, anywhere along the Midland Railway main line. Most locos would have their Deeley front ends by then, they would be in their various stages of being rebuilt, some of them for a third time in about ten years, all would be in the simplified 1907 livery but still that rich crimson lake. Just thinking of the elegant coaches makes me what to have a Tardis.

[Joseph_Pestell]

I second Clive's choice of decade. Railways at their most elegant, as illustrated by Hamilton Ellis.

 

But just to be greedy, I'll pick a location as well. Birmingham New Street. All the best of the Midland, but the LNW runs it close for interest, especially with regard to carriages.

[David Bell]

36 minutes ago, great northern said:

I'll count the poll later chaps, but so you have something to occupy your minds this morning, here is today's poll.  If a time machine arrived at your door, and you could go to any decade in the 20th century to watch trains for a day, which decade would you choose?  It would be interesting to know why as well.

My word, that is a difficult one! I am torn between the thirties and the seventies,oddly. I will choose the thirties and the location is Edinburgh Princes Street gardens. All those LNER top link locos drifting back from Waverley to Haymarket for servicing and an endless procession of trains ranging from humble suburban trains all the way to the the Queen of Scots pullman. What a day that would be!