RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 1, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2012 I managed to get quite a lot of what you need GN. Will post them to my albums when I get home. I have now been able to look properly at all the photos you took, and I can't believe the time and trouble you have taken. All of this will be of great assistance to me, and will certainly create a couple more building commissions for Peter Leyland. Many thanks once again for spending so much time and effort in doing this. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 No problem, wanted to try the new camera out and had a spare couple of hours. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonF Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Yes, I got that email too - August it appears to be. But saying that...this time last year, I had an identical email in my inbox, save for August 2011 was the date...! It's not a matter of life or death of course, but it is intriguing the number of models which have jumped the queue ahead of the B17, including the B1. I'm half expecting the O1 to appear before the B17. It couldn't, could it...?! Well it could be - hattons just e-mailed me again to say the B17 is now due for release end of september 2012! Gives me more time to track down some 52'6" carriages to go with it..... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 1, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2012 I'm back into running trains now, so here's a few more shots of the early morning traffic. We start with the 0550 KX - Grantham, arriving behind Doncaster A1 Amadis, already over two hours into its journey and having stopped just about everywhere. In the foreground of the second shot you will see a nice little hut which recently arrived with Gravy Train, and which has replaced a ready to plant thing. This was the addition I challenged everyone to find in a recent post. Unfortunately no-one did, and the time to claim the £5000 prize expired yesterday. I always find it hard to resist photographing B17's, so here is a zoom shot of Doncaster Rovers having arrived with the 0826 from March. I also love that beautiful canopy on Platform 6, so here's the best of both worlds. When the overall roof and footbridge are in place I reckon this may make quite a nice shot, once a proper platform surface is added, together with a lot of advertising posters on the walls and some waiting passengers. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 (edited) Very nice Gilbert. I've always found B17's to be the most elegant of locomotives. I'm 60 now but my cousin in Scotland recently sent to me an old photo of me playing Cricket in our back garden when I was about 6 and in the background just to the left of my family house a B17 is caught in action on the embankment, just to the east of Shenfield station on the Southend loop heading towards London. The odd thing, to me, about it is that it is pulling "blood and custard" stock when my memory tells me it was all maroon on that line. Best, Pete. Edited June 2, 2012 by trisonic 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tom F Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 (edited) That last shot, very nice! Just think what it will be like with the real roof on! Edited June 2, 2012 by Tom F 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 (edited) just going back to the mysterious signal discussed a few pages back, looking at this shot by Ben Brooksbank. is there another one behind the loco? Mike Edited June 2, 2012 by michael delamar 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gresley Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 just going back to the mysterious signal discussed a few pages back, looking at this shot by Ben Brooksbank. is there another one behind the loco? Mike Mike, Not sure about the signal, but can you please explain the "Q" at centre of buffer beam ? gresley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 2, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2012 Mike, Not sure about the signal, but can you please explain the "Q" at centre of buffer beam ? gresley I can Stuart. It was a local code so that the signalmen could tell which station pilot was which. Another one was "O"........which from a distance looks remarkably like "Q". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 2, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2012 just going back to the mysterious signal discussed a few pages back, looking at this shot by Ben Brooksbank. is there another one behind the loco? Mike There is something similar Mike, but this one is a signal with a route indicator, and we have got it. I can't quite get the same angle, and it's the wrong N5, but the signal is in about the same place. This had recently replaced a very nice bracket signal which had at least five arms. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 3, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2012 It's dark, it's dismal, it's about 8c, it's windy, and that fine drizzle which you can hardly see, but which soaks you in minutes is falling steadily and continuously. Yes folks, it's a Bank Holiday Sunday. Having poked my nose outside I very quickly decided to stay put and get some trains running to cheer things up. We begin with a Newcastle- KX Goods parcels, which a local 9F has just taken over in New England yards. The train is crossing to the Up slow, and completely blocking the ECML while doing so. plodding along steadily..... and about to pass the B17 which brought in the 0826 from March. Camera hand held as I didn't remove the fascia, so predictably not altogether sharp, but just about acceptable. Taken from Crescent Bridge with lots of zoom...... Quite a powerful image this one? The 0835 from Kings Lynn, which is what caused this diversion via the slow line can just be seen in Platform 2, and the 9F is about to block the whole ECML again to get back onto the Up main. The Kings Lynn has reversed to the carriage sidings, and a shabby Immingham B1 arrives with the early morning stopper from Grimsby. Another Immingham B1, but this one is in much better condition, and heads the first Up Cleethorpes- KX. Sudden SQL message, so I'll post these before I have to start all over again. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Always a treat to see what new photos you've taken of PN. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2012 I love that 'spaceship' - very typically GN line appearance to it 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 3, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2012 OK, let's see if I can get the rest done. This was an attempt to get the under the overall roof shot from the South end. It required contortions on my part so i didn't notice it wasn't in focus. It'll look OK when all is finished and I get it right though I think. Emerging from the gloom, the loco is slowing to a standstill. Finally, as my acknowledgment of the weekend's celebrations, here is a posed shot of a very appropriate locomotive. I can still remember the radio being switched on when I was in primary school and hearing the news of the King's death and the accession of our Queen. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 As Mike says, I reckon that picture of the 9F on an up parcels at the south end of the station is one of the best you've taken Gilbert. So railwaylike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Hope you don't mind Gilbert, but I've slightly tweaked your picture of the 9F. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Loving the B1 photos: last steam loco haulage I got in steam days was "A.Harold Bibby", Barnetby to Scunthorpe. When will he appear on Peterborough? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 3, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2012 Very nice Gilbert. I've always found B17's to be the most elegant of locomotives. I'm 60 now but my cousin in Scotland recently sent to me an old photo of me playing Cricket in our back garden when I was about 6 and in the background just to the left of my family house a B17 is caught in action on the embankment, just to the east of Shenfield station on the Southend loop heading towards London. The odd thing, to me, about it is that it is pulling "blood and custard" stock when my memory tells me it was all maroon on that line. Best, Pete. Thanks Pete. And I can't imagine anything much better than playing or watching cricket while watching B17's go by. That's my idea of heaven. Well, one of them anyway. Blood and custard stock because it was a holiday extra perhaps? Some of the old stock dragged out of sidings for a couple of weeks use each year? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) The annoying thing is that the particular B17 and its' coaches were over my right shoulder so I never saw them at the time...I was facing the camera. I suppose it must have been - by my school "cricket" cap (which, of course, I was wearing) 1957 or '58. Best, Pete. Edited June 4, 2012 by trisonic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 6, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2012 Today I was just going to run trains - no getting sidetracked by photography. Then the very first train turns out to be the Down Fair Maid, behind one of my favourite A4's, Wild Swan. Well, what can you do? The first four shots are from viewpoints you have seen before. Believe it or not, on prototype photos the curve looks even more severe than this. Oh look, another dangly bit! Why are these things never noticeable till after the photo has been taken? Number 21 was used on the Elizabethan in '58, so Tim will need to bring the Klear again next time he visits. I reckon once we get the proper roof on, plus signs, platform surface and people this may make quite a good shot. Now we depart from my normal style of photography. I'm not a great fan of "helicopter" shots, but as I have seen photos taken from the top of Spital Bridge coaling stage I thought I'd try one or two just to add some variety. So, out came the tripod, and here's the results. This one though must have been taken from Spital Bridge with a telephoto lens. I've not cropped out the windows or the temporary Crescent Bridge dangling in space as the photo does give a good overall view. Taken from the top of a telegraph pole I reckon. Anyway, it makes a change doesn't it? Why doesn't he get on with some modelling you may ask? I ask myself that sometimes too. Where's the idle emoticon? 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) Just had to fix my lubricator on No 11 too Gilbert. They're a right pain! I've used the later version of Klear on number 15 and number 22. Quite a difference. Edited June 6, 2012 by davidw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 10, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2012 Oh dear! I woke up this morning to find that I'm another year older. Surely there should be some way of opting out of this process? It does make time more precious though- must get on with the layout. My present to myself was an excellent day out at Railfest on Friday, and even the threatened heavy rain kept away. Low point of the day was Flying Scotsman looking very tired indeed, and why German deflectors and double chimney with wartime black livery? High point? The Wainwright D, which must be one of the most handsome locos ever designed. I'd definitely find as excuse to run one of those if they ever appeared RTR. Must stop rambling and get on with some layout work. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Many happy returns then Gilbert. I was there on Friday too - rather enjoying the spectacle of SNG and Tornado next to each other, and the "whistling contest" they had going on between them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Happy Birthday Gilbert! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted June 10, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2012 Many happy returns then Gilbert. I was there on Friday too - rather enjoying the spectacle of SNG and Tornado next to each other, and the "whistling contest" they had going on between them! Thanks Simon. Yes it was great to see Gresley's masterpiece alongside the final development of the LNER pacifics. Those guys deserve knighthoods for having the perseverance and staying power to produce Tornado. Just wonderful to see. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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