Peterborough North

[LNER4479]

17 hours ago, great northern said:

Today we are on the East side of Scotland, so major junction stations between Berwick and Aberdeen on the ECML, but we will also include the Waverley route, which should not be left out of any poll. The criteria for that lovely line will include any junction station that had an engine shed, however small.

We play by the adjudicator's rules ... and, yes, Riccarton had an engine shed

[St Enodoc]

44 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

We play by the adjudicator's rules ... and, yes, Riccarton had an engine shed

Fairy nuff.

[great northern]

7 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

We play by the adjudicator's rules ... and, yes, Riccarton had an engine shed

Thank you Graham. The Waverley had quite a few lovely junction stations, but most of them could not be described as large, so that's why I changed the criteria. I hoped that places like Hawick and St Boswells might get a look in, but they didn't.

[great northern]

Someone found another picture of Enterprise, and here it is.

 

 

and so we came to the very last move of another sequence. This one took 78 days to complete, 19 days longer than when under complete lockdown, but still very much shorter than previous efforts. The last train is the 7.25 from KX, which comprises a five set plus two SKs and a PMV.  Another very smart A3, this time KX's Sandwich, seen running in to Platform 6.

 

 

[great northern]

What a poll that wasn't.  The middle of nowhere got 10 votes out of 12!  That puts Riccarton Junction in good shape for the eventual "poll of polls", when all this finally comes to an end.

 

Today we start to head south again along the ECML. Junction stations between Edinburgh and York. There aren't that many major ones, so any will qualify, big or small.

[New Haven Neil]

Another (late) Riccarton vote from me, and a vote for Peter Handford's recordings too!  I have most of them, and some are just so incredibly atmospheric.  It was his profession of course, he was a 'sound man' in movies.

[New Haven Neil]

Posts crossed!

 

The new one- Newcastle not a major junction - really, Gilbert.....

[Clive Mortimore]

Newcastle.

[St Enodoc]

Newcastle Central and the entire complex of junctions on either side of the Tyne. If there we're a separate category for small junctions I'd pick Alne.

[FarrMan]

I wondered about Northallerton, but I think it will have to be Newcastle - such an amazing complex of junctions with lines in all directions.

 

Lloyd

[LNER4479]

28 minutes ago, great northern said:

Thank you Graham. The Waverley had quite a few lovely junction stations, but most of them could not be described as large, so that's why I changed the criteria. I hoped that places like Hawick and St Boswells might get a look in, but they didn't.

Had I known Riccarton would be quite so popular I might have mentioned another favourite of mine, Reedsmouth Junction, on the Border Counties line en route to ... Riccarton Junction (fancy that!). Very distinctive tall signal box in the vee of the junction and had its own loco depot.

 

Anyway, we're moving on ...

[31A]

I thought about Darlington but will vote for Newcastle as well.  The whole station area and railway layout is so impressive with the high Tyne bridges and junctions.  But it also strikes me that the station itself is remarkable and an indication of how quickly railway technology progressed in the 19th century when you consider that it was only built 25 years after the Stockton & Darlington opened, but is still fit for purpose today.

 

[LNER4479]

I'll be the first to mention Darlington. Impressive overall roof (that rather plays second fiddle to York) and of course the hub of the NER's loco building empire.

 

Depending on how strict we are re ECML, Bishop Auckland's unusual triangular junction station (as was) is worthy of mention - it was an alternative Darlington-Durham leg of the ECML in the mid-1800s and was still being used as a diversionary route until the mid-1960s. From here, you could catch a train along no less than six different routes (Darlington, Barnard Castle, Ferryhill, Wearhead, Consett and Durham). West Auckland shed (51F) just round the corner on the Barnard Castle route.

Edited August 4, 2020 by LNER4479

[New Haven Neil]

Yeah, Bish was in my mind, but I spent too many hours on the end of platform 10 at Newcastle not to vote for it!

[David Bell]

I will go for Alnmouth

[scottystitch]

Another Perth General vote here, my childhood home town.  The station, sadly, now a shadow of its' former importance.

 

Best

 

Scott.

[JamieR4489]

York for me. Lots of memories of going there by train, most recently behind 60009 and back with 6233.

[drmditch]

56 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

I'll be the first to mention Darlington. Impressive overall roof (that rather plays second fiddle to York) and of course the hub of the NER's loco building empire.

 

Depending on how strict we are re ECML, Bishop Auckland's unusual triangular junction station (as was) is worthy of mention - it was the original route of the ECML for the first 20 odd years or so and was still being used as a diversionary route until the mid-1960s. 

 

 

Really? The East Coast trains ran via what we now call the Leamside route from Hoggersgate/Tursdale junction until 1872 (?), Anyway until the YNB (later NER) opened the Bishop Auckland branch (1852 ?) Bishop was an S&D station.

 

Also, despite recent claims by ill-informed politicians, the main NER locomotive works until 1910 was Gateshead.

 

All in favour though of Bishop being an ECML diversionary route. It's what my own railway relies upon for more 'exciting' trains!

 

PS - thank you for the nice picture!

Edited August 4, 2020 by drmditch

[DaveF]

 

It has to be Newcastle Central.

 

David

Edited August 4, 2020 by DaveF

[jollysmart]

York, always busy and very impressive overall roof, many visits there when the children were younger and we had monthly work meetings in the hotel for many years so lunch times were either at the station or wondering around the NRM. York, so many memories.

Edited August 4, 2020 by jollysmart
correction

[drmditch]

Re: Junctions

Many splendid stations to choose from. Out of the best NER stations I would have to choose Darlington. The architecture and layout shows the height of NE prosperity.

[LNER4479]

31 minutes ago, drmditch said:

 

Really? The East Coast trains ran via what we now call the Leamside route from Hoggersgate/Tursdale junction until 1872 (?),

Fair do's! I was really thinking of the Darlington-Durham section, the route via Bish effectively being bypassed by the opening of the more direct route through Ferryhill in 1872. I have amended my post above.

[Woodcock29]

Hard to go past Newcastle. The view from the castle was fantastic before track simplification.

[Market65]

Newcastle for me too. 
 

Rob.

[great northern]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Posts crossed!

 

The new one- Newcastle not a major junction - really, Gilbert.....

But I didn't say there weren't any, just that there weren't many.