RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2021 Colchester-Glasgow is due shortly, and here's the loco which will take it onward. Filthy 60070 is about to cross to the Down side, and into the bay. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 5 hours ago, great northern said: Generally I prefer longer shots as it creates a greater depth to the image, but this is difficult to recreate in 4mm without taken multiple images at different focal points. But this one (the 3rd shot) gets my vote. It's a great setting with the signal box on the right, loco in the centre and the train curving away to the left. It just looks 'sharper' than the other two. But that's my 2 cents. or bob, depending on where you come from... 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2021 And here is the Glasgow, the Colchester engine having worked through this evening. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2021 Clean B17 on its way for servicing, possibly to New England, but more likely, I think, to Spital Bridge. The A3 has replaced it, and will soon be on its way home. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 That is one mucky loco! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2021 Just now, LNER4479 said: That is one mucky loco! Sadly, a lot of them were that bad. Tom Wright weathered this for me about 25 years ago, and I think I gave it back to him three times with the instruction "more dirt". 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 14 minutes ago, great northern said: Clean B17 on its way for servicing, possibly to New England, but more likely, I think, to Spital Bridge. The A3 has replaced it, and will soon be on its way home. I've got the Peter Tuffery book on the A3s much dirtier than that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, great northern said: Sadly, a lot of them were that bad. Tom Wright weathered this for me about 25 years ago, and I think I gave it back to him three times with the instruction "more dirt". I think our messages crossed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 29, 2021 The sun is sinking fast now, the shadows are lengthening, and we come to the time when ghostly apparitions may be seen, or imagined. And, right on cue, one appears on the Down slow. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 On 27/11/2021 at 17:05, great northern said: Returning to the discussion about the views from Platform 3, and the intruding signal, i took some more views from different places, as below. Signal included, and a bit of an eyesore. So I then moved the camera just the other side of the signal, and we get this. and finally further along still, with this result. What do you think? I liked the first one until I saw the other two. The second one seems to cut into some of the end of platform clutter, which the third one nearly avoids. Perhaps slightly to the left of the third one, including all of the signal box, and a wee bitea more on the left. But all your photos are nostalgia inducing. Even the less good ones are good, just not excellent like most are. Many thanks for them all, and keep them coming, please. Lloyd Lloyd 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 29, 2021 More coal, 9F hauled this time. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 30, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 9F out of the way, which allows the Talisman to come through. Gateshead normally turns out an A4 or an A1 for this prestige train, but today we have an A2/3, and a Heaton engine as well. What happened? It seems the rostered A4 failed, and so the shed foreman shouted to the driver to take 518 instead. Sadly, the driver is a bit deaf, and so when he came to 517, he thought that was the one. So, 517 now heading for London, instead of York or Leeds, which is where it should have been going, and the foreman is left scratching his head. 26 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted November 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, great northern said: 9F out of the way, which allows the Talisman to come through. Gateshead normally turns out an A4 or an A1 for this prestige train, but today we have an A2/3, and a Heaton engine as well. What happened? It seems the rostered A4 failed, and so the shed foreman shouted to the driver to take 518 instead. Sadly, the driver is a bit deaf, and so when he came to 517, he thought that was the one. So, 517 now heading for London, instead of York or Leeds, which is where it should have been going, and the foreman is left scratching his head. He better be careful of getting splinters. Edited November 30, 2021 by Clive Mortimore 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 3 hours ago, great northern said: 9F out of the way, which allows the Talisman to come through. Gateshead normally turns out an A4 or an A1 for this prestige train, but today we have an A2/3, and a Heaton engine as well. What happened? It seems the rostered A4 failed, and so the shed foreman shouted to the driver to take 518 instead. Sadly, the driver is a bit deaf, and so when he came to 517, he thought that was the one. So, 517 now heading for London, instead of York or Leeds, which is where it should have been going, and the foreman is left scratching his head. That's going to be an interesting trip. She'll sound like the hammers of hell when they let loose!! I'm a sad man, but I love these locos. Great shots as usual. Regards, Chris. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 30, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 Ocean Swell heads on southwards, while our grimy A3 waits to head off the other way. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 1, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2021 Onward goes the Talisman, In other news, I have now fitted Hunt couplings to one of my fitted goods rakes. 40 wagons and brake, a mixture of NEM pockets and screw couplings, one or two replacing the huge and horrible things on Mainline vans. Looks much better, and runs beautifully. I now realise I could have used their ultra close couplings and made it look even better still. Anyone need a lot of redundant tension locks? 23 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 1, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2021 On the Down main we have the evening KX-Leeds Class C, behind a recently ex works Doncaster V2. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 2, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2021 Don't know how this one got out of synch. We'll call that a bonus shot, and return to the progress of the V2. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 The train, signals, track and telegraph poles are so convincing. The only improvement might be some form of background? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 2, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2021 Back up on Spital Bridge now, to capture the approaching V2. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 2, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2021 2 hours ago, 2750Papyrus said: The train, signals, track and telegraph poles are so convincing. The only improvement might be some form of background? Difficult though, for two reasons. The first would be to get an accurate view, with the usual problem that what looks right from one angle looks silly from another.More relevant though is that a higher backscene here would obscure the view from the other side, and the operating well is really the main viewing area. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 3, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2021 I know some of you like the shots from this end, so I took several of the V2's progress. Here's the next one. Monochrome to give a bit of a change. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, great northern said: I know some of you like the shots from this end, so I took several of the V2's progress. Here's the next one. Monochrome to give a bit of a change. Hi Gilbert Definitely prefer your colour photo, the trackwork and ballasting colour looks so natural and realistic and shows up so much better. Regards David 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 3, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2021 I am not a monochrome person, but do find that image of the train snaking out of the platform very convincing. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 3, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2021 Yesterday saw another visit from Tim, and more goodies. Nothing new this time, but a continuation of our policy of upgrading exisiting locomotives, First up is Dominion of Canada, which was beginning to stand out like a sore thumb, as it was still more or less as it came out of the box. Not now though. Transformed. The second loco's transformation is even greater, as it involved a change of identity. A3 60067 Ladas had been bothering me for some time, as it had a double chimney, which put it in post April 59 condition, and outside the parameters I allow myself. So it has become 60064 Tagalie, another Doncaster engine, and correctly in single chimney condition. Tim and I thought when we discussed this that it would be an easy job to pop the double off and pop a single on, but it turned out not to be. As usual, I will leave Tim to explain how he dealt with it. He also had a struggle with the weathering that had previously been applied, but it came off in the end, and now it looks like this. 60064 was the last GN A3 I was able to rule under in my Ian Allan, to the predictable derision of other small and not so small boys. Goodness know why, because it was just as regular a performer as all the rest. I will forgive it the embarassment it caused me over 60 years ago now though. And I don't know why 60010 decided that it was so good that the driver's side should be shown twice. 30 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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