Peterborough North

[cctransuk]

31 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

There is, in my experience, a huge difference between a look and a Look.

 

..... and the Good Lord help you if you mistake one for the other !!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[great northern]

Update. A supervisory chappie has taken a stroll down the platform, and discovered that the loads on the trolleys are also firmly glued in place. As they came from Tetleys Mills, no-one at PN is prepared to accept any responsibility. There seems to be a bit of a stand off here. Is a cursor called what it is because it is regularly cursed by lots of people?

[Oldddudders]

29 minutes ago, great northern said:

Update. A supervisory chappie has taken a stroll down the platform, and discovered that the loads on the trolleys are also firmly glued in place. As they came from Tetleys Mills, no-one at PN is prepared to accept any responsibility. There seems to be a bit of a stand off here. Is a cursor called what it is because it is regularly cursed by lots of people?

Explanation accepted. 

[great northern]

1 hour ago, MrDobilina said:

 

 

Oh lord, I know what my girlfiend (whose entire family are spurs fans including one train enthusiast) will actually WANT me to find next! Not that I can actualyl find any of tottenham hotspur for sale anywhere....

Will keep my eye out! 

Beautiful shot as always.

Hornby haven't done Tottenham Hotspur, so mine has been Timmed to get it. I did point out to Simon Kohler some years ago when I was making the case for a new B17 tooling that 61630 was the only footballer which had a GE tender, and might make a good limited edition for that reason, but as they have saturated the market with B17s recently, it may be a long time coming, if at all.

[great northern]

Another shiny A4 tonight, Wild Swan has the Down Norseman. Apparently the headboard was hardly ever used, which is good, as I haven't got one.

 

 

 

Now and then I take photos of unfinished areas, to give me an idea as to how to finish them off. This area is very much work in progress, but I think it can be turned into a good feature.

 

 

[great northern]

Gales heavy rain and golf are not a good mix, but its a competition, so I have to go. I thnk the worst bit is the temperature. 6c, and "feels like 2" at the end of April.

 

Before I go and put all my thermal gear on, here is another view of lovely Wild Swan, a few yards further on its way to Tyne Commission Quay.

 

 

 

If I turn the camera 180 degrees from last night's other picture, we get this.

 

 

 

Unfinished again, obviously, but a promising view, which needed some brightness toning down.

[FarrMan]

Up here we often get a cold spell end of April/beginning of May. As it is lambing time, it is referred to as the lambing snow!

 

Lloyd

[31A]

The 'second' pictures from yesterday evening and this morning show some interesting and 'different' angles; thanks for showing them, and it will be interesting to see what these areas look like after a bit more work.

 

[MrDobilina]

On 26/04/2019 at 14:21, great northern said:

Hornby haven't done Tottenham Hotspur, so mine has been Timmed to get it. I did point out to Simon Kohler some years ago when I was making the case for a new B17 tooling that 61630 was the only footballer which had a GE tender, and might make a good limited edition for that reason, but as they have saturated the market with B17s recently, it may be a long time coming, if at all.

Ah I see thank you! I’ve seen the brass plates for 61630 available. 

What does timmed mean? 

I think I could make do with renumbering  and replacing the brass plate of a decent ‘near enough’ one. Not a rivet counter here  

which variant did you use? Is 61665 a good match for colour?

[great northern]

26 minutes ago, MrDobilina said:

Ah I see thank you! I’ve seen the brass plates for 61630 available. 

What does timmed mean? 

I think I could make do with renumbering  and replacing the brass plate of a decent ‘near enough’ one. Not a rivet counter here  

which variant did you use? Is 61665 a good match for colour?

 Timmed, means that the loco has been weathered and detailed by an extremely talented gentleman called Tim Easter. The unique thing about 61630 is that it was the only B17 named after a football club which had the small tender, so Leicester City, or any other footballer would be wrong. What you need is a  short tender engine, and Hornby have done quite a few of those. 61619 Welbeck Abbey is the current one.

[great northern]

11 hours ago, 31A said:

The 'second' pictures from yesterday evening and this morning show some interesting and 'different' angles; thanks for showing them, and it will be interesting to see what these areas look like after a bit more work.

 

I'm looking forward to working on these Steve, but first I need just a bit more input from Peter Leyland. Ther'e a nice lttle street scene just waiting to be developed, then I'll see what can be done with Station Road.

[great northern]

I do not like high winds at the best of times, and still less when on the golf course. Today though I survived being blown about, kept my concentration, won the competition and reduced my handicap. Happy bunny time again.

 

One more look at Wild Swan would be good, and this is the view from the bottom of the ramp on platform 2 as she glides along Platform 3.

 

 

 

Then another of the occasional looks at stock formation. The Norseman had plenty of catering cars.

 

 

[great northern]

This morning we have the shuttle service from East to look at, and a D16 adding one more to its mileage, and the inevitable call to works, where there can only be one result. That means we celebrate them while we can, so every available camera was focused on 62530 as it approached journey's end.

 

 

 

 

 

On with some work now.

[great northern]

I keep returning to this view, but it really is one of the best to be had on the layout, in my opinion. A slendid background for a lovely locomotive.

 

 

 

On the Up, there is another WD. I'm running out of ways to descibe these shots. Let's just say that you know where it has come from, and have a very good idea where it is heading.

 

 

 

I suppose this is as close as I can get to one of Martin's present day shots. We do have some of the existing buildings at least.

[great northern]

Yet more coal going south, but this time to Little Barford power station at St Neots, hence the borrowed 01, and the extra brake van at the front of the train.

 

 

 

 

 

A very clean brake van on view, must be fresh from overhaul.

[45156]

Lovely pics as ever, Gilbert - it is a real tribute to your modelling that my wife thinks that when I am viewing your pics, she really believed that I was viewing pics of a real railway

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Yet more coal going south, but this time to Little Barford power station at St Neots, hence the borrowed 01, and the extra brake van at the front of the train.

 

 

 

 

 

A very clean brake van on view, must be fresh from overhaul.

Hi Gilbert

 

A wee bit of geographical correctness is required. Little Barford power station was so called as it was in Little Barford, Bedfordshire. St Neots is in Cambridgeshire.

[31A]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Gilbert

 

A wee bit of geographical correctness is required. Little Barford power station was so called as it was in Little Barford, Bedfordshire. St Neots is in Cambridgeshire.

 

Or indeed Huntingdonshire in those days.

[great northern]

2 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Gilbert

 

A wee bit of geographical correctness is required. Little Barford power station was so called as it was in Little Barford, Bedfordshire. St Neots is in Cambridgeshire.

 

19 minutes ago, 31A said:

 

Or indeed Huntingdonshire in those days.

But, unless my memory is seriously at fault, the county boundary must be very close to St Neots, as I recall clearly seeing the power station on the right very shortly after the my train had passed the station. This was in recent years though, so I suppose at 100mph plus it would seem a very short distance.

[31A]

I suspect at that point the county boundary is the River Great Ouse (in which case the power station would be in a different county to the village .... ).

[Clive Mortimore]

As you go under the ECML on the A428 there was a sign that stated "Welcome to Bedfordshire, a Progressive County" and the power station (there is still a gas turbine generating station on the site of Little Barford) is on the Bedfordshire side of the sign. 

 

 

The sign now just says "Welcome to Bedfordshire", no idea why it stopped being progressive except I no longer live there.

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, 31A said:

I suspect at that point the county boundary is the River Great Ouse (in which case the power station would be in a different county to the village .... ).

Both the village and the power station are on the east bank of the River Great Ouse and within the county boarder. Had the power station been over the boarder it would have been called Eynesbury power station. https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/518500/256500/10/101325

[31A]

Thanks Clive; I had forgotten where Bedfordshire ended although once upon a time I would have known very well!  Should have looked at a map myself first really ....

[great northern]

Another of my experiments is first up tonight, but requires an assumption that the bridge slopes down rather severely at the far end.

 

 

 

Then, as the sequence progressed, the Elizabethan was due, and it was the Scottish engine on the Down train today. Unfortunately our photographer got so excited that he made a pig's ear of every shot he tried, the one below being the only remotely printable one. Even on that one, the ****** headboard has slipped, after I was very careful to set it straight before the train set off.

 

 

[rockershovel]

The Longthorpe side of Crescent Bridge was indeed, somewhat akin to a ski-jump before the general reconstruction of the roads around the Midland Road area attendant on the construction of the General Hospital. 

 

The Town side must have been fairly precipitous before the construction of the roundabout..