RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 6 minutes ago, great northern said: this picture of a lovely graceful 4MT I think you posted the wrong photo, Gilbert. 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2021 Rolling Stock Mini-Polls (being run on behalf of Gilbert by Brian Macdermott) Hello everyone Recently, Gilbert asked for suggestions for his series of informal and highly enjoyable polls. I submitted an idea for a series of seven weekly polls – each of no more than 10 items per week – concerning rolling stock not yet (or not fully yet) available in RTR form and which have at least some relevance to Peterborough North traffic. These Polls will be for items that you would like to see made RTR and would realistically wish to buy. I make the assumption that any item would be produced in a full range of liveries from LNER to BR. The Polls will be: No.1: Gresley & Thompson Gangwayed No.2: Gresley & Thompson Catering No.3: Non-passenger – 4- & 6-wheel No.4: Non-passenger – 8-wheel No.5: Freight Stock – 4-wheel (Pre-1951) No.6: Freight Stock – 4-wheel (Post-1950) No.7: Freight Stock – 8-wheel The first will start next Monday 17 May during the morning. You will have until 17.00 on Thursday 20 May to submit your wishes – either here, on the thread, or PM direct to me if you prefer the ‘secret ballot’ method. I will present the results during the day on Friday 21 May. Subsequent Polls will follow the same Monday, Thursday, Friday timetable; however, on Monday 5 July, I will present a full summary: ‘Overall Results – Top-to-Bottom’. In the unlikely event that any poll reaches 50 votes, I will stop early and advise by a posting to this thread – so vote early! Gilbert and I hope you will find these Mini-Polls both challenging and interesting – you will certainly need your thinking caps on as you have to make a limited selection from the lists! If you vote on the thread, please feel free to explain why you have chosen your selection – hopefully, that will promote some interesting debates – but please do not take it as an excuse to start up the old chestnut of ‘kits vs RTR’. These are ‘informal Polls for fun’ on Gilbert’s thread only and neither The 00 Wishlist Poll Team nor RMweb are specifically involved (apart from me in my ‘personal capacity’.) All the best, Brian 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 14, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 1 hour ago, St Enodoc said: I think you posted the wrong photo, Gilbert. I just found I had a bit of spare irony, so I used it up. 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, LNER4479 said: Diagram 10 (A,B,C) RF please - and the RT(P) to go with it. Next? Hello LNER4479 You'll have to wait until Monday 24 May! Brian Edited May 14, 2021 by BMacdermott Corrected date. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 Has to be The Tyne and Bridges. As spectacularly modern and clean now as it was spectacularly industrial and crowded in the late 50s. Durham and the Cathedral in particular, is beautiful of course, so Mrs Mallard votes for that. Bishop Grosseteste. P 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 2 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I think you posted the wrong photo, Gilbert. Oink! P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 14, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 Belatedly, the poll result. Not surprisingly the winner was Durham Cathedral, by a long way. Proceed now from Morpeth to Edinburgh, where I reckon you would be looking to the right a lot of the time anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnok Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 1 hour ago, BMacdermott said: concerning rolling stock not yet (or not fully yet) available in RTR form What about not accurately enough yet available in RTR form? That's why I currently don't own any RTR Gresley coaches at the moment. Not that manufacturers haven't made them, but that they haven't captured the shape well enough... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 So much to see from the right hand side of the train on that stretch but I will go for running into Berwick from Tweedmouth with firstly the view of the Royal Border Bridge, and then running over it. As well as the wonderful view of Berwick, if you turn your head you can look right down the Northumberland coast to Bamburgh. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 20 minutes ago, great northern said: Belatedly, the poll result. Not surprisingly the winner was Durham Cathedral, by a long way. Proceed now from Morpeth to Edinburgh, where I reckon you would be looking to the right a lot of the time anyway. And there was me thinking that you'd split it at Berwick - so much of the delights of the East coast are crammed into this section across the border. The Royal Border bridge does take some beating - 'iconic' is an entirely appropriate description. However, the views out to sea running along the cliff tops just north of Berwick (as you actually cross the border) just shade it as my personal favourite. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2021 15 minutes ago, Bloodnok said: What about not accurately enough yet available in RTR form? That's why I currently don't own any RTR Gresley coaches at the moment. Not that manufacturers haven't made them, but that they haven't captured the shape well enough... Hello Bloodnok You are welcome to try that one yourself, but I would be grateful if you could hold it until my series finishes - comments may arise that could usefully 'feed into' what you do. Personally, I wont take the job on...I know from experience of running The 00 Wishlist Poll that it's a difficult subject! Brian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 It's got to be one of the sea views, hasn't it? So... Holy Island (Lindisfarne)? The sweep of the Tweed estuary and the Royal Border Bridge? The border sign at Marshall Meadows? Cockenzie Power Station (only kidding)? Actually, no. I'm going to choose the distant, oblique views of Arthur's Seat after Prestonpans until just before you swing to the right at Monktonhall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 Assuming that "The Northumberland Coast" (all the bits that can be seen from the train, taken together as one...) is a bit too unspecific to be allowable, I'll have to vote for the view of the Royal Border Bridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) I know I've already voted but it's so lovely along that stretch that I couldn't help posting a few pics: Another favourite of mine is the view of Alnmouth, viewed from the train, south of the station. It's a charming little place, well worth the walk down from the station And now that bridge. Horrors! If you look closely at the front of the train you'll see that it's not my normal 'fare' (it was Tornado on the way back - Elizabethan 2012). Another walk from a station that's richly rewarded. Even the overhead structures don't impinge much on its elegant lines. What a beautiful thing - sheer poetry in architecture. Now with proper motive power in charge - Tornado 'Top Gear' special 2009 with 'each a glimpse - gone forever' moments like this. I shall forever be a die-hard West Coast fan ... but this stretch is the East Coast's tour de force Edited May 14, 2021 by LNER4479 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, LNER4479 said: Another favourite of mine is the view of Alnmouth, A truly lovely little place. The first few production HST trial runs terminated here and most of the team lunched in a tavern in Alnmouth. I can remember on one occasion some of the team, me included, missed the return trip to Derby LL. The runs to Alnmouth ended shortly after... Kind regards, Richard B Edited May 15, 2021 by 30368 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 I always love the roofs of the houses in Alnmouth that sort of glow orangey red as if in Italy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 It has to be the Border sign just North of Berwick. Always gives me a warm feeling to know that I am back in Scotland, perhaps more that I am out of Englandshire. Lloyd 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Going over the Tyne into Newcastle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Holy Island at Sunset Paul 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 As regards LNER stock I'd like to see, Gresley metal sided stock, both solo and articulated. Tourist stock too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Coming into Berwick and seeing the Royal Border Bridge curving to the right in front and the estuary. Andrew 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Sandhole said: As regards LNER stock I'd like to see, Gresley metal sided stock, both solo and articulated. Tourist stock too. Hello Sandhole Please vote on Monday - I am not counting until then, and only on those on the list. Thanks. Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 38 minutes ago, BMacdermott said: Hello Sandhole Please vote on Monday - I am not counting until then, and only on those on the list. Thanks. Brian OK, no probs. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 Close run between Almouth and Berwick - I'll go for Almouth (No votes for Torness? ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted May 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2021 My vote goes to Berwick with the Tweed estuary and the Royal Border Bridge. Regards Chris H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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