Peterborough North

[great northern]

34 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

I don't know whether you did it deliberately, but the way the bridge ends just by the foreground signal fools the eye (mine anyway) into thinking that it carries on to the left. Very nice.

Pure good fortune, I'm afraid. I did notice it afterwards too, but it was just a lucky juxtaposition of things.

[great northern]

Now for the Hull fish, with its usual immaculate Top shed B1.

 

 

Turned out nicely, so I'll have to try to remember how I did it. Camera well up towards Spital Bridge might be the key to it.

[great northern]

The other side of the fish, but the smell is the same.

 

 

 

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

44 minutes ago, great northern said:

The other side of the fish, but the smell is the same.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Gilbert

 

At first glance I thought it was a double chimney B1.

                                

[great northern]

6 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Gilbert

 

At first glance I thought it was a double chimney B1.

                                

Yes indeed. The positioning of the loco was not quite as good as it might have been. Whatever made me think that it might not be noticed?

[Clive Mortimore]

55 minutes ago, great northern said:

Yes indeed. The positioning of the loco was not quite as good as it might have been. Whatever made me think that it might not be noticed?

As I am visiting tomorrow and do not want the same welcome as the squirrels get, I will not comment.

Edited October 31, 2021 by Clive Mortimore

[great northern]

3 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

As I am visiting tomorrow and do not want the same welcome as the squirrels get, I will not comment.

Very wise.

[great northern]

A quiet corner, a propped up bicycle, and leaves deposited by a recent violent storm.

 

 

[great northern]

Thus spake the photographer."For gawds sake, will you two stop gassing, and get out the bl**dy way!"

 

 

Or words to that effect.

[great northern]

They still aren't moving, and he is still shooting hopefully into strong light. Some things never change.

 

 

[great northern]

A lovely day with Clive, featuring reasonably behaved trains for a change. I'm sure a dislike of the works of Thompson was not the motive for all these shots into the light, but there is yet another one. 60501 is on the way home with the KX-Dringhouses Class C which left the capital just after 4pm.

 

 

Don't mention the lamps. The fireman is embarrassed enough already.

[great northern]

and now back to an elevated view, though I'm not sure this one works.

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

"The engine said Doncaster, so why am I here in, what is this place?"

"Peterborough madam"

"I really don't care what it is called, I got on a train at Grantham which had Doncaster on the engine and should have gone there, not to this horrible town."

"The engine is called Doncaster after the winner of the Derby in 1873"

"I don't want to go to Derby, I thought I was going to Doncaster".

Edited November 1, 2021 by Clive Mortimore

[great northern]

4 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

"The engine said Doncaster, so why am I here in, what is this place?"

"Peterborough madam"

"I really don't care what it is called, I got on a train at Grantham which had Doncaster on the engine and should have gone there, not to this horrible town."

"The engine is called Doncaster after the winner of the Derby in 1873"

"I don't want to go to Derby, I though I was going to Doncaster".

I wondered what you were up to with that sneaky photo I saw you take.

[great northern]

A miracle has occurred. The lamps have rearranged themselves whilst the train was in motion.

 

 

[37Oban]

Hi,

 

it's no good, but I have to ask,  when are the track gang going to remove that kink before the turnout in the loop?

 

Roja

 

[great northern]

44 minutes ago, 37Oban said:

Hi,

 

it's no good, but I have to ask,  when are the track gang going to remove that kink before the turnout in the loop?

 

Roja

 

Things tend to happen very slowly at PN. Not as slowly as at Little Muddle, I grant you, but the pace is nevertheless, what shall we say..... relaxed.

[FarrMan]

23 minutes ago, great northern said:

Things tend to happen very slowly at PN. Not as slowly as at Little Muddle, I grant you, but the pace is nevertheless, what shall we say..... relaxed.

From the time it took to remove that kink in the main lines through the platforms, they tended to happen VERY slowly!

 

Lloyd

[LNER4479]

Goods lines habitually had (have!) kinks and dips - leave the man alone!

[Alan coulson]

Hi 

I’m attempting a version of the 1960’s layout in N gauge, I’m struggling to find technical details of the station building and layout. 
can you advise where you found the information to enable the modelling of the station building 

any help would be appreciated 

thanks

alan 

[great northern]

26 minutes ago, Alan coulson said:

Hi 

I’m attempting a version of the 1960’s layout in N gauge, I’m struggling to find technical details of the station building and layout. 
can you advise where you found the information to enable the modelling of the station building 

any help would be appreciated 

thanks

alan 

Peterborough library have the original 1850 plans, but when I looked at them I found they were of no use really, because of the 1880's alterations. In the end, I just had to send Peter Leyland all the photographs I could find, and just ask him to do his best, which was and is very good, considering that he also had to fit it into the track which had already been laid. It was a very difficult job, even for a master craftsman, which Peter certainly is.

 

If you look at the Peterborough Images website you will find some useful views, but we found that there were some parts which just didn't seem to have been photographed at all, so there was some educated guesswork involved.

 

The 1960s were when alterations/demolition was starting to take place, as the overall roof in particular was disintegrating, so you may have to be careful about timescales.

[great northern]

Next to appear is the Friday evening Catterick Camp leave train, which Tracery will have taken over at Grantham.

 

 

One of our chaps is still up the coaling tower, no doubt feeling that after such a long climb he is going to make his exertions worthwhile.

[great northern]

There are advantages to that 20mph PSR. He'd never have been able to get two shots at this if Tracery had been running fast.

 

 

[great northern]

Rather belatedly, we come to the other goodie which arrived with Tim last week. The delay was caused by a combination of lack of daylight and lack of memory.

 

Some time ago I snapped up a couple of cheap new Hornby B1s on E Bay, and they have been with Tim since. Other things kept getting to the top of the to do list though, and so only now has the first one been Timmed. Some thinking was necessary before deciding on identities, as I had to take into account both the requirements of a Saturday sequence, when I get round to it, and the different haulage capacity of Hornby and Bachmann B1s. There were quite a few 11or even 12 coach duties on Saturdays, so I needed to make sure that Hornby locos covered them.

 

As these were all E Lincs trains to and from Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Skegness, at least one more Immingham engine seemed to be a sensible option. Trawling through various websites I found a dated photo of 61142 in July 58 on one of the weekday expresses, which I found quite interesting, as it had been out of shops for some time by then, as evidenced by the early crest it carries. 40B must have liked it though, as it had been bulled up for the London job, though there must have been lower mileage engines around.

 

 Tim had to work from a thumbnail image this time, but has done the usual excellent job.

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

There's even time to turn round and follow the A3 as it heads on to the south.