Peterborough North

[stewartingram]

Blackpool Central. Complete with the fabulous approach, from Blackpool South, either direct or via Lytham, then the masses of sidings holding excursions. Just outside the station the complex of Central MPD and the Blackpool Transport tram/bus complex too. A proper terminus with many platforms, always seemed busy (in summer anyway), and wonderfully located.

[great northern]

 Playing trains,which are behaving well, sun shining, photos took, three quick wickets for England. Only blot on proceedings is that someone programmed a route wrongly, didn't know his N from his R. Derailment swiftly followed.

 

No tea break photo, as I was busy pouring endless buckets of water into the fish tank while doing a water change. Here's a lunchtime one instead, Stanier tank pausing at Platform 2 on the last leg of the journey from Leicester to East.

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

30 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

Blackpool Central. Complete with the fabulous approach, from Blackpool South, either direct or via Lytham, then the masses of sidings holding excursions. Just outside the station the complex of Central MPD and the Blackpool Transport tram/bus complex too. A proper terminus with many platforms, always seemed busy (in summer anyway), and wonderfully located.

I had considered some of the wonderful termini at seaside locations which were busy in the summer and thought that could be another poll.  I nominated Brighton even as it is on the coast as my mainline terminus because it is busy with London and local traffic all year round.

[jazzer]

Cleethorpes on a Bank Hoilday Monday , it the days people still went to the seaside by train. There is probably no other terminus where you could see such a huge variety of motive power and rolling stock, except maybe Blackpool North or Skegness, but I’ve never been to either of those.

[simontaylor484]

There is always Scarborough 

[great northern]

Hint - Seaside termini may well be a poll of its own, as will be branch line ones. We are on the big city stuff at the moment.

[mullie]

Bath Green Park though I never saw it with trains in, only a Sainsbury's!

 

Martyn

[Market65]

For this intriguing poll, I’m going with Hull Paragon.

 

Rob.

[jollysmart]

I logged back in to place my vote for Hull Paragon, and found I wasn't quite on my own! Great minds etc.

[jazzer]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

Hint - Seaside termini may well be a poll of its own, as will be branch line ones. We are on the big city stuff at the moment.

Ah that rIses a problem . If seasides are having a poll of their own then Ihave to withdraw Cleethorpes and replace it with Penzance assuming the Rules Committee accept Penzance is a city even though it is technically a town.

[thegreenhowards]

I’ve been mulling this and Glasgow Central, Hull and Brighton are my main contenders. I’ll put in a provisional vote for Brighton but reserve the right to change it later.

[37Oban]

If seaside terminii are to be a later poll then I'll withdraw Oban and settle for Glasgow Queen Street just by a whisker from Glasgow Central!  Or maybe Hull Paragon between 1955-1970.  Facinating place according to photo's I've seen.  No, sticking with Glasgow Queen Street!

 

Roja

[great northern]

The 4.21 from KX brings Wolf of Badenoch back home.

 

 

 

and the 5.21 from Cambridge follows, and that brings us a lovely well cleaned B12.

 

 

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Bit harder, this one, so many city destinations are through station,  I did think of Bradford Interchange , but Hull Paragon piped it at the post.

 

manna

[LNER4479]

Seeing as how no-one else has mentioned it - and I've made a condensed model of it - Manchester Central, t'other end of t'line from St Pancras and every bit as grand.

[St Enodoc]

8 hours ago, great northern said:

Hint - Seaside termini may well be a poll of its own, as will be branch line ones. We are on the big city stuff at the moment.

Oh, in that case I'll change my vote to Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, LNER4479 said:

Seeing as how no-one else has mentioned it - and I've made a condensed model of it - Manchester Central, t'other end of t'line from St Pancras and every bit as grand.

I always thought the other end of the line from St Pancras  (patron saint of English railways) was the patron saint of Scottish railways, Glasgow St Enoch.

 

But others would argue that Bath Queens Square or even Bristol St Philips were the end of the line. Then there are Bradford Foster Square and Leeds Wellington. And what about Liverpool Central - High Level (despite it being in a hole).

 

Apart form St Philips all the others, and Manchester Central were grand affairs, what a wonderful railway the Midland was.

 

My vote still goes to Brighton as I did not know the others in the heyday.

Edited July 12, 2020 by Clive Mortimore

[St Enodoc]

11 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

My vote still goes to Brighton

That counts, as it is now in the City of Brighton and Hove (actually).

[great northern]

Good morning all. This is actually a rather special day, as it marks the 10th anniversary of this thread. An awful lot has happened during those ten years, and I would certainly never have anticipated that it would be viewed getting on for two million times by now. A lot of people have been with me on this for most if not at all of those ten years, and I thank you all for your support and encouragement, which has helped greatly in getting to where we are now.

 

Some extremely talented people are largely responsible for what I now have, and so special thanks go to them. They know who they are. We lost Dave Skakespeare, which for me at least has left a hole that cannot be filled, but in general it has been a lot of fun, which is all that matters really. So, the next ten years, I hope, start here. How will/can the layout develop from here? That is going to take some serious thought, but even if the answer is not much, I still have plenty of pleasure to look forward to. And some cursing, it wouldn't be the same without that.

 

When I looked for a picture to accompany this , I found that the next one ready was perhaps the most appropriate  that it could have been, for if there is any view of PN which shows it at its best, and sums up all I was looking for, this is it.

 

 

Norman Saunders' track work, Peter Leyland's superb buildings, and Tim Easter's brilliant bringing to life of RTR locos are all here, as, I like to think, is the spirit of 1958. I could not have asked or hoped for more.

[great northern]

That was a difficult poll to count, as we had a few changes of mind. When the dust settled, Hull Paragon, Brighton and Glasgow Queen Street all had three votes, but Penzance no longer did, so there was a three way tie.

 

Perhaps I should be more precise when giving the subject for the day. I think we can look at seaside termini in three categories, large, small and branch line. After all, some were not really holiday destinations, were they? So today, large seaside termini, let's say six platforms or more, and which came into existence and grew to serve the holiday trade.

[jwealleans]

Scarborough.  Only 5 platforms now but more in the day.   Last time I arrived there was on the footplate of 4472.

[St Enodoc]

Brighton this time!

[Market65]

Well, Gilbert, firstly congratulations on the tenth anniversary of this lovely thread about your beautiful layout of Peterborough North. Well done.

Now, I too are voting for Scarborough. Not a better example of a seaside terminus that I can think of which, in it’s heyday had nine platforms, plus that very long seat on number one platform leading up to the Whitby bay platform, number 1a.

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[Oldddudders]

Congrats on passing such an implausible milestone, Gilbert. One of the hallmarks of the thread throughout my time here has been your willingness to share the limelight with those whose skills have contributed to PN's success. 

 

Nevertheless the fact remains, as I have said before, that you are the glue - you have orchestrated the assembly and deserve massive credit for that. You might baulk at the term visionary, but I do not see it as an exaggeration.

 

I hope the next ten years are as successful, and that the band of regulars on this thread is still intact to keep the party swinging. 

[thegreenhowards]

I’ll be boring and go for Brighton again.

Edited July 13, 2020 by thegreenhowards