Peterborough North

[jazzer]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

Southend-on-Mud doesn't really sound very attractive though, does it?

 

Oh, I don't know...

 

 https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+southend+mud+footbal&docid=608028663073014417&mid=835E97784E6CF3CD9A1D835E97784E6CF3CD9A1D&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

[great northern]

Tonight we see Great Central arriving from the North with the 5.15 Hull.

 

 

The name plates have fallen orf for some reason, and I just tacked them back on until they can be refixed properly. As often happens, tacky wax isn't tacky enough.

 

Seagull then leaves on its 29 mile trip to Grantham.

 

 

[St Enodoc]

 

8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Steve

 

Now Southend is a bit of a odd place as its real name is Southend-on-Sea but it ain't it is in the Thames Estuary.Plus it doesn't really have a beach, it is on mud flats. 

 

When I were lad me Mum and Dad would take me and my brother on a day trip to Southend by train from Bedford it was great fun trying to work out which route we would take as sometimes we ended up at Victoria and sometimes Central. Back in them days the local coppers wore white helmets in the summer, very strange.  

We used to go a couple of times a year, by car round the North Circular and down the Southend Arterial. Once during the summer to visit some ex-neighbours who'd moved there, which always included a train ride on the pier, and once in the autumn to see the lights.

[Woodcock29]

8 hours ago, great northern said:

Right, what could be better than a parcel containing a Timmed A3. The answer is...... two of them. Another one found on E Bay has also had the treatment.

 

 

 

 

This one is a Grantham engine, and its last shopping was a year ago, so its condition is subtly different, but equally attractive. Another lovely addition to the fleet. I'm sure I have enough A3s now. They are beautiful locomotives though, aren't they? I suppose I could have one more, or perhaps two.

My favourite as Dad took me on the footplate of 60049 at K+, probably about 1962.

You don't see many models of her. I've got two, as A1 2548 prewar ( my main period) and 60049 with double chimney and smoke deflectors as she was when we visited her cab.

Andrew

[37Oban]

Has to be Oban in the sixties.  Interesting station building, transhipment shed and sidings for the ferry traffic and a totally separate mpd and town goods yard.  Lovely!

 

Roja

[great northern]

We haven't had any views from Spital Bridge for a while, so here are two, as Seagull snakes and lurches over the pointwork to regain the main line.

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

You do like your seaside termini. 18 very widely spread nominations, but only two got more than one vote. Result, Scarborough 3 Cromer High 2.

 

Let's do the same with large non seaside termini, again with reasons for choice please, nostalgic or otherwise.

[Oldddudders]

Am I allowed a day many years ago? Derby Day at Epsom Downs in LBSCR days, with a train in each of the seven platforms, including the Royal Train, with an I3 tank on the front bearing the Royal coat of arms. These days it makes do with one platform, and the branch is slightly shorter, the site having been sold. 

[FarrMan]

Large non seaside termini? Depends on the definition of seaside. If it is taken as holiday resorts, then that gives you quite a choice. If it is literally within 1 or 2 miles of the sea, then I can think of very few outside of central London. If the former, I would plump for Inverness, which is my local station. An interesting track plan, being almost two separate stations. If the latter, I would have to go for Manchester Piccadilly (and all it's previous names) even though I have never been there, as the only one I can think of outside of that filthy hole that is London.

 

Lloyd

[great northern]

33 minutes ago, FarrMan said:

Large non seaside termini? Depends on the definition of seaside. If it is taken as holiday resorts, then that gives you quite a choice. If it is literally within 1 or 2 miles of the sea, then I can think of very few outside of central London. If the former, I would plump for Inverness, which is my local station. An interesting track plan, being almost two separate stations. If the latter, I would have to go for Manchester Piccadilly (and all it's previous names) even though I have never been there, as the only one I can think of outside of that filthy hole that is London.

 

Lloyd

Anywhere but seaside holiday resorts today Lloyd.

[jwealleans]

The Cross.   So many memorable trips through there and so much history.

[Tim Dubya]

Bath, Queens Square / Green Park / Midland / Sainsbury's.

 

Why? the market's good as is the record shop

 

Edit: Does it count as two, being the terminus for the Midland AND Somerset & Dorset?

 

Edited July 24, 2020 by Tim Dubya
Lois Maxwell

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, Tim Dubya said:

Bath, Queens Square / Green Park / Midland / Sainsbury's.

 

Why? the market's good as is the record shop

 

Edit: Does it count as two, being the terminus for the Midland AND Somerset & Dorset?

 

It was the Midland Railway's terminus which the Slow and Dirty had running rights.

[37Oban]

Mm, bit tricky!  Four to choose from in Glasgow!  After due consideration, and a cup of tea, settled for Queen Street, especially when the goods side was in use, although St Enoch ran it close!

 

Roja

[St Enodoc]

I'm going to go way out of my usual sphere and nominate Leeds Central.

[31A]

OK this time I will go for Hull Paragon!

 

I used to like going there for work; never too busy or any sense of panic, just well ordered and serenely business like under the elegant overall roof.  And a brilliant renovation, integrating the bus station with the railway station, and removing the 1960s concrete DMO office from the front, opening up the frontage.

 

[New Haven Neil]

I'm with the Cross, iconic for so many reasons, the starting point for so many famous trains, compact design, photos of A4's line up at the buffers....oh yes.

[DaveF]

 

I'm going to go for Manchester Piccadilly. 

 

I lived in the city from 1968 to 1972 as a student and used the station regularly.

 

David

 

 

[JamieR4489]

King’s Cross for me as well. Purely because of the memories I have of going to London by train when I was younger and the history of the station.

[jazzer]

22 hours ago, great northern said:

Right, what could be better than a parcel containing a Timmed A3. The answer is...... two of them. Another one found on E Bay has also had the treatment.

 

 

 

 

This one is a Grantham engine, and its last shopping was a year ago, so its condition is subtly different, but equally attractive. Another lovely addition to the fleet. I'm sure I have enough A3s now. They are beautiful locomotives though, aren't they? I suppose I could have one more, or perhaps two.

 

How many A3’s do you now have Gilbert?

[mullie]

Bath Green Park, still a nice area of the city, would have been better with steam.

 

I'm not getting into another discussion about mud at Southend!

 

Martyn

[great northern]

21 minutes ago, jazzer said:

 

How many A3’s do you now have Gilbert?

Ermmm, it seems that I have 20. Not sure how that happened.

[thegreenhowards]

King’s Cross for me too.

[jwealleans]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

it seems that I have 20

 

I thought I was unduly extravagant with half that many.

[CUTLER2579]

Has to be Kings cross complete with "Fag Ash"( the shunter )  at the end of platform 10.