Peterborough North

[great northern]

23 minutes ago, 31A said:

The view from Crescent Bridge seems to be a new and interesting perspective .... 

It needs heavy cropping as things are Steve, but I'm looking at adding to the baseboard so that we can get a backdrop of Station Road, which would improve this sort of photo a lot.

[great northern]

One A4 goes out of sight, but almost Immediately another appears. This photographer is pushing his luck a bit to get this kind of shot.

 

 

 

Our man on Crescent Bridge has no such safety problems, unless he either leans out too far or steps back into the road. He was able to get this view of Walter K.

 

 

 

For this view to succeed that expanse of white in the background has to be addressed.

 

This is Walter K Whigham with the Tees-Tyne pullman. The A4 carried a headboard when it started its journey, but that was later found lying in between tracks. It must have been a very big bird to knock that off.

[Oldddudders]

4 hours ago, great northern said:

 It must have been a very big bird to knock that off.

Some of us really like big birds. 

[great northern]

35 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Some of us really like big birds. 

Bustards?

[great northern]

One of our photographers has made his way round to Spital Bridge, and has got some images from there. In real life, that would be a comfortable enough task, but in my railway room it is far from comfortable, which is why you don't see these views very often. Walter K continues towards the end of the PSR, and fairly soon the climb to Stoke summit.

 

 

 

the next one had to be so severely cropped that it is almost useless, and I didn't waste time trying to photoshop it, but here it is anyway.

 

 

 

That's not up to much, so we have three for the price of two tonight. The last one is from  nearer ground level, but still requires a lot of contortions.

 

 

[westerner]

Nothing wrong with the second one, Gilbert. No need to Photoshop, there looks to be a storm coming.

[great northern]

Captain's Day at the golf club, an early start and a forecast of heavy rain. Already the dark clouds are rolling in. A test then , for my new waterproofs.

 

Yet another A4 on view at PN. 60010 has the lightweight 6.10pm to Grantham, whence it will return to KX with a proper train.

 

 

 

Behind it, a gleaming B17 has brought in the East shuttle, another very light load, but one which saves a light engine  movement.

 

 

[stewartingram]

2 hours ago, westerner said:

Nothing wrong with the second one, Gilbert. No need to Photoshop, there looks to be a storm coming.

Agreed. That is a view I've personally witnessed (with many different trains) over the years.

 

Stewart

[great northern]

The waterproofs passed the test, and we won a bottle of red each. Enough of that.

 

I thought that BCK behind the B17 looked rather nice, so it got a close up.

 

 

 

Running apparently the wrong way on the Up, a J50 heads for the yards with a transfer freight.

 

 

 

I have just realised, nearly nine years on, that I should have painted the walls of the room white.

[landscapes]

Hi Gilbert

 

can you remember sometime ago you kindly sent me a few water cranes you had spare from your Peterborough North Layout for me to use on my Haymarket layout.

 

 

I have had a enquiry from an RM web member asking me who makes them.

 

I did order some additional matching water cranes but I cannot remember who the supplier was.

 

by chance can you remember who supplies them, I know they supplied various types from different regions.

 

Regards

 

David

[great northern]

9 hours ago, landscapes said:

Hi Gilbert

 

can you remember sometime ago you kindly sent me a few water cranes you had spare from your Peterborough North Layout for me to use on my Haymarket layout.

 

 

I have had a enquiry from an RM web member asking me who makes them.

 

I did order some additional matching water cranes but I cannot remember who the supplier was.

 

by chance can you remember who supplies them, I know they supplied various types from different regions.

 

Regards

 

David

They are Mike's Models David. I believe they may still be available somewhere, but I can't remember where. It used to be Holts.

[great northern]

More coal empties, another WD.

 

 

 

I'm still experimenting with this view below, but I think cropping the bridge out does improve it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Next in is the Friday only version of the 4.40pm Doncaster - KX.  The stock will form a KX- Skegness SO, and we will look at it in more detail tomorrow. For now though, we concentrate on the motive power, though it is only one of our own, Mons Meg yet again.

 

 

 

 

[Herbert Nigel]

On 05/07/2019 at 22:22, great northern said:

One of our photographers has made his way round to Spital Bridge, and has got some images from there. In real life, that would be a comfortable enough task, but in my railway room it is far from comfortable, which is why you don't see these views very often. Walter K continues towards the end of the PSR, and fairly soon the climb to Stoke summit.

 

 

 

the next one had to be so severely cropped that it is almost useless, and I didn't waste time trying to photoshop it, but here it is anyway.

 

 

 

That's not up to much, so we have three for the price of two tonight. The last one is from  nearer ground level, but still requires a lot of contortions.

 

 

 

Gilbert, I apologise in advance but I’m a bit worried about the “slipped” and rapidly recovered coaches from this prestigious Pullman service. Honestly I love the photo’s but what happened?

[great northern]

8 hours ago, Herbert Nigel said:

 

Gilbert, I apologise in advance but I’m a bit worried about the “slipped” and rapidly recovered coaches from this prestigious Pullman service. Honestly I love the photo’s but what happened?

Simples. Beneath the track at PN lurk magnets for decoupling of kadees. Sometimes a train stops with two coaches precisely over one of them, which causes premature uncoupling. I then move the train forward to the next photographic opportunity, and fail to notice that this has happened. I also fail to see it through the viewfinder, though in fairness that is difficult, but also fail to see it when photoshopping, when it certainly isn't!

[great northern]

After the Doncaster had left, there was time for a Leicester- East service to call. By 1958 this ancient Midland thingy probably spent most of the year in store, but in high summer everything which could turn a wheel was needed, and I have quite a lot of prototype photos that show it. I also have a weakness where pre grouping 4.4.0's are concerned.

 

 

 

We can also look at the stock of that Doncaster train, which was used as a means of getting stock to London for one of the several trains carrying happy holidaymakers to sunny Skeggy on summer Saturdays.

 

This one featured eight TSOs, none specified as MK1s. I don't have that many Gresley cars yet, so some others have crept in. There is also a FK in there, but why I don't know. Not many posh people holidayed in Skegness.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

The 4.21 slow from KX was hauled by either a V2 or an A2/2 in July 58. Today it is the latter, and Wolf of Badenoch is seen running in to Platform 6.

 

 

 

The Wolf did not stay there for long, as the 5.21 from Cambridge was due at the same platform. Coming from GE territory we might hope for something less ungainly, and those hopes are rewarded.

 

 

 

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

15 hours ago, great northern said:

After the Doncaster had left, there was time for a Leicester- East service to call. By 1958 this ancient Midland thingy probably spent most of the year in store, but in high summer everything which could turn a wheel was needed, and I have quite a lot of prototype photos that show it. I also have a weakness where pre grouping 4.4.0's are concerned.

 

 

 

 

 

A THINGY......it is a wonderful class 483, superheated class two passenger 4-4-0. A beautiful class of locomotive.

[great northern]

6 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

A THINGY......it is a wonderful class 483, superheated class two passenger 4-4-0. A beautiful class of locomotive.

I apologise most insincerely for my totally inept comment. I must have been in distrust of foreign locos mode.

[great northern]

B12 from the rear...

 

 

 

If only those wagons had been placed a little further to the north, this view would have been closed off very nicely. Better with the top of the bridge cropped out, I think?

[great northern]

Why did I post that? I didn't mean to do it. Totally inept. But then I don't have a huge brain.

 

You should also have been given the opportunity to gaze on the classic lines of the B12 from this angle too.

 

 

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

B12 from the rear.........Brilliant shot, More Please.

 

manna

[Martin S-C]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

You should also have been given the opportunity to gaze on the classic lines of the B12 from this angle too. 

 

 

More superb weathering. How does Tim get that effect? It's wonderful. He must spend hours and hours on each engine.

[great northern]

The last Pullman of the day comes into view. A Copley Hill turn as usual, Kittiwake is the engine this time.

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Last Pullman of the day! Load of rubbish. Who told you that? Here is the last Pullman, the Down Yorkshire.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the A4 which shouldn't have a double chimney in August 1958. That means that for the time being it is November.