Peterborough North

[sandra]

I like the view of Alexandra Palace on the left as you head north before Alexandra Palace station.

[LNER4479]

So do I ... but today's poll is for views on the right-hand side 

[sandra]

4 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

So do I ... but today's poll is for views on the right-hand side 

I hadn’t noticed that it had to be on the right hand side but of course it’s on the right hand side when you’re going the other way!

[3rd Rail Exile]

These days the Emirates Stadium is eye-catching, but I'm not sure I'd call it scenic...

[Mallard60022]

1960, approaching on the high speed stretch, north of Stevenage, Hitchen Shed at full tilt and bellowing numbers to poor parents sat in the Compartment!!!!!

Umm, I can smell the fear of missing anything still.

[Mallard60022]

 

However, the River Bridge at Huntingdon was/is quite pretty and that is my Scenic vote.

P

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Hornsey shed, Bounds Green sidings, Shredded Wheat factory (WGC), Hitchin shed, LNWR station at Sandy, Huntingdon bridge, Holme station/Junction to Ramsey, Fletton brickfields........better than views of the Alps.

 

manna

[great northern]

So the next photo is of Seagull at Platform 6, with a five set of MK1 stock. This was taken over a fortnight ago, and for a while I couldn't fathom out what it was doing there. The penny has now dropped. This is the 8.10 to Grantham, and the A4 is making its way there to bring back an express, having arrived at PN a few hours back.

 

 

Took me ages to work that one out!

 

 

 

[thegreenhowards]

7 hours ago, 3rd Rail Exile said:

These days the Emirates Stadium is eye-catching, but I'm not sure I'd call it scenic...

I have to avert my gaze at that point! Nil response from me on this poll as it’s not scenic.

[2750Papyrus]

For some reason, all the important "spots" from my youth were on the LH side!

 

Controversial when built, but with an elegance of its own, my vote for the poll goes to the wind farm between Langford and Biggleswade......

[great northern]

The 5.15 from Hull is next, Happy Knight bringing it through. It was only at KX during the summer of 58, but the cleaners there immediately removed all the encrusted filth so that it looked like this. Unfortunately, there don't seem to have been many other times in its short life when it did.

 

 

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

The 5.15 from Hull is next, Happy Knight bringing it through. It was only at KX during the summer of 58, but the cleaners there immediately removed all the encrusted filth so that it looked like this. Unfortunately, there don't seem to have been many other times in its short life when it did.

 

 

What catches my eye in that photo, apart from the elegance of the main subject, is the realistic hazy look of the buildings in the background. Just right for the distance.

P

[great northern]

6 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

What catches my eye in that photo, apart from the elegance of the main subject, is the realistic hazy look of the buildings in the background. Just right for the distance.

P

Sheer fluke, Phil. I have been experimenting with ISO settings, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

[St Enodoc]

Peterborough Town Bridge and the Cathedral.

[Clive Mortimore]

The St Neots bypass. Mainly when heading south along the bypass just before one turns right under the GNR mainline one knows one will be soon in Bedfordshire. There use to be a sign next to the bridge proclaiming "Welcome to Bedfordshire, a Progressive County".

[Clive Mortimore]

Railway Thought Of The Day

 

Bullhead track.

 

When using bullhead track you need to be careful of the horns.

 

Every thing will be going smoothly then all of a sudden they appear from behind blasting away on the trumpet, saxophone and trombone.

[St Enodoc]

23 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Railway Thought Of The Day

 

Bullhead track.

 

When using bullhead track you need to be careful of the horns.

 

Every thing will be going smoothly then all of a sudden they appear from behind blasting away on the trumpet, saxophone and trombone.

I'll have some of what you're on, please.

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Railway Thought Of The Day

 

Bullhead track.

 

When using bullhead track you need to be careful of the horns.

 

Every thing will be going smoothly then all of a sudden they appear from behind blasting away on the trumpet, saxophone and trombone.

Sorry Clive, Saxophone is actually not really a horn. Horns have metal mouth pieces into which one buzzes. A sax has a reed over which one blows. 

Alto Baritone

 

[Clive Mortimore]

23 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Sorry Clive, Saxophone is actually not really a horn. Horns have metal mouth pieces into which one buzzes. A sax has a reed over which one blows. 

Alto Baritone

 

I know a saxophone is a "metal" reed woodwind instrument but it is often found in the horn section of a band.  Mrs Ms late father played a saxophone in a jazz band.

 

To be honest, when hearing someone learning to play a saxophone one would think it is a reserve means of audio torture should the bagpiper not get enough wind up. 

[Podhunter]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

... it is a reserve means of audio torture should the bagpiper not get enough wind up. 

One definition of a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't.

Edited May 10, 2021 by Podhunter

[Trains4U]

On 09/05/2021 at 13:26, great northern said:

Here is a poll for you. You are on a train on the ECML heading north. It could be now, though not today on account of cracks, or it could be at a time of your choosing in the past. Between Kings Cross and Peterborough, what is the best scenic view on the right hand side? We will come to best railway related view in a while.

Woodwalton church, present day, when the sun is shining.

[Clive Mortimore]

58 minutes ago, Podhunter said:

One definition of a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't.

Belize winter 78-79, I was REME gun fitter with 3 Battery Royal Artillery,

Rideau camp was the Gurkha pipe band, not too bad they rehearsed between gigs in the States together. 

Moved to Holdfast camp, a troop from the Scots Greys was there and one of their pipers was part of that troop. Blue (why are all Aussies in the army called Blue?) would practice around the back of the ammo sheds where the Sherwood Foresters were growing their weed. A small tattoo thing was put on for the locals and Blue played the lament from the water tower, the Engineers managed to shine the search light up his kilt. 

When the Foresters had to abandon their crop they were replaced with the Black Watch, the pipe and drum band. Now my nephew is a pipe player and he use to use the wall of the back of the house to play to so he could hear the reflected sound in doing so he could hear himself play. This what the Black Watch pipers done. Nissan huts do not have many suitable surfaces, so we had 20 odd pipers practicing dotted all over the camp, all playing different tunes, every day.

 

One can have too much of a good thing.

 

 

 

[great northern]

I'm not sure why, but I just have this feeling that things may be drifting off thread a bit lately.

[mullie]

What about the oboe, sounds like someone quacking when they first start playing.

 

Low note practice on the tenor sax can sound a bit like a fog horn, I know I have been that fog horn, my landlady at the time wasn't impressed!

 

At the time I was also practicing for a performance of West Side story, she was ok with that.

 

Martyn

[LNER4479]

1 minute ago, mullie said:

What about the oboe, sounds like someone quacking when they first start playing.

... as heard on 'I got you babe' [Sonny & Cher]. Only found that out the other night.

 

I used to play the French Horn and had to develop my embouchure ... but I'm OK now