Peterborough North

[simontaylor484]

Hebden bridge 

[Woodcock29]

Huddersfield for me. I ended up there after visiting the Standedge tunnels in 2008.

Andrew

[great northern]

Back from a round of golf during which I three putted nine times, including missing one from little more than one foot. In the end I finished up laughing at it, there seemed nothing else to do, really,

 

Here is a picture of A2/3 Sun Castle bringing in the stock for the 1130 to Edinburgh.

 

 

That worked very fast.

[Market65]

It’s good to be back.  And for this poll I’m going with Hebden Bridge.

 

Rob.

[great northern]

Another look at 60523 , now stationary at the North end of Platform 6.

 

 

While a short goods working comes through from East.

 

 

[31A]

I've been away for a few days and I don't know what the question was, but I'd like to vote for Hebden Bridge as well.  It's a nice station in a nice town with some nice walks and pubs for lunch afterwards.  When I was a Guard and worked on the Calder Valley line it was encouraging to be back there and well on the way back to Leeds ....

 

[St Enodoc]

12 hours ago, Woodcock29 said:

Huddersfield for me. I ended up there after visiting the Standedge tunnels in 2008.

Andrew

I used to have to visit Marsden occasionally when I was based at Leeds. After inspecting the point heaters I would get some fish and chips (with scraps and two slices), drive up to the top of the moors and eat them while looking out over much of the West Riding. Happy days.

[simontaylor484]

37 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

I used to have to visit Marsden occasionally when I was based at Leeds. After inspecting the point heaters I would get some fish and chips (with scraps and two slices), drive up to the top of the moors and eat them while looking out over much of the West Riding. Happy days.

At least you call them scraps not bits like most of that part of God's country 

 

[St Enodoc]

35 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

At least you call them scraps not bits like most of that part of God's country 

 

They wuz allus scraps in Leeds, luv.

[St Enodoc]

12 hours ago, great northern said:

Back from a round of golf during which I three putted nine times, including missing one from little more than one foot. In the end I finished up laughing at it, there seemed nothing else to do, really,

On our walk this morning, we passed a golf course. One player, having retrieved his ball from the creek, then tried to chip it up the steep slope to the green. It was like one of those Crazy Golf holes where it keeps coming back down. I don't know how it ended - we moved on before I burst out laughing.

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

On our walk this morning, we passed a golf course. One player, having retrieved his ball from the creek, then tried to chip it up the steep slope to the green. It was like one of those Crazy Golf holes where it keeps coming back down. I don't know how it ended - we moved on before I burst out laughing.

Reminds me of a Frenchman at St Andrews some time back, well in the lead of the Open, and making a complete hogs of the last hole. Even the placid Allis commentary became ragged and critical. So sad to watch. 

[New Haven Neil]

'ebden Bridge, lovely place, my 'Best Man' lives there, a lad I was at sea with.

[LNER4479]

5 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I used to have to visit Marsden occasionally when I was based at Leeds. After inspecting the point heaters I would get some fish and chips (with scraps and two slices), drive up to the top of the moors and eat them while looking out over much of the West Riding. Happy days.

Was part of my TOC 'patch' once, there and Slaithwaite (pronounced 'slowit' - as in 'ow! that hurt!'). Always used to enjoy my days out there. I seem to recall a local sandwich shop where the challenge was to demolish a 'sub' the length of a baguette...

[great northern]

This morning sees the arrival of the Flying Scotsman.

 

 

Sorry about the lamp.

 

 

[great northern]

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

On our walk this morning, we passed a golf course. One player, having retrieved his ball from the creek, then tried to chip it up the steep slope to the green. It was like one of those Crazy Golf holes where it keeps coming back down. I don't know how it ended - we moved on before I burst out laughing.

That happens even to the professionals sometimes. It can be a very difficult thing to judge, even more so when one loses one temper and hits it jolly hard to make sure it gets over...... and finds it down another slope the other side of the green.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Reminds me of a Frenchman at St Andrews some time back, well in the lead of the Open, and making a complete hogs of the last hole. Even the placid Allis commentary became ragged and critical. So sad to watch. 

Jean Van de Velde. Just complete brain meltdown under enormous pressure, but really it was his caddie's fault, as it was his job to intervene and get his player to think straight. Unfortunately Jean had decided to use a complete amateur to carry his bag, so that didn't happen. At least it meant a Scotsman won in Scotland, but it wasn't at St Andrews actually. I haven't looked it up, but from memory it was Carnoustie, an absolute brute of a golf course, which would have caused meltdown in most humans long before they got to the 72nd hole.

[great northern]

The poll was won by Hebden Bridge, 7 votes to Huddersfield's 3.

 

Today, we confine ourselves to stations on the Settle and Carlisle, between those two places only. Just the wayside stations please, we've already covered junctions. Everybody knows the Settle and Carlisle, surely?

[St Enodoc]

Dent (Garsdale Road to those of a certain age).

[David Bell]

I will go with Appleby

[DaveF]

 

 

Dent.

 

I spent a lot of time there in the late60s watching trains and taking photos.

 

David

[great northern]

An elevenses accompaniment this morning, featuring another excellently Timmed loco. B1 61113 was a long time New England resident, and a Bachmann loco featured on the loft layout, and down on PN. However, it succumbed to the dreaded rot a while back. I decided to replace it, so Tim has worked his magic on a new Hornby model.

 

61113 seems to have been a New England favourite, as it was used on a rail tour in the mid 50s, and then again in 58 for promotional photos of a train of, I think, Aveling Barford tractors, for which it was suitably bulled up. Thus it is considerably cleaner than the New England norm.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim has photographed the loco in sunlight outdoors, where it looks stunning. I've got sun in and out this morning, and bad reflections, particularly off the tender if I take shots in full sunlight. Tim will post his images in due course, when you will see this lovely loco, literally, it its true light.

 

We have another to come later as well, folks.

[Clive Mortimore]

Dent is going to win so I am not nominating any of the other lovely stations on the line, anyhow they all look the same and have similar track plans.

[CUTLER2579]

Got to be Dent for me as well.

[LNER4479]

Yes, I think it has to be Dent.

 

The highest mainline station in England 1150 ft a.s.l. and nearly 5 miles away from the place it purports to serve (and which is a very nice village actually if you take the time to go there).

 

Explored the central section of the line on my push bike many times in my formative years and have tackled the 1-in-6 road up to the station on me bike more than once - couldn't do it now! Another nice format for an energetic day out is to take the train to Dent, then walk up to the head of the dale and onwards across the top of Blea Moor tunnel, past the vent shafts, before walking past Blea Moor box, under the shadow of Ribblehead viaduct to enjoy a well-earned pint (or two) in the Station Inn before catching the train home from Ribblehead.

 

I'm almost tempted to change my vote to Ribblehead ... but I'll stick with Dent, a wonderful location for a station.

[Metropolitan H]

I'm going for Appleby - it is the only one where I have got off, and on, a train. They also have a very good local icecream on sale.

 

Regards

Chris H