Peterborough North

[Welly]

A bit hard to choose a Type 2, but the 31s with the headboxes is the best looker of an ugly bunch!

[great northern]

Good morning. A little late here, as I had a short lie in. Pictures now of the last train in the sequence, the 7.21 from KX, which loaded rather more heavily than most of the stoppers. Sun Castle is the loco.

 

 

I tried for an effect of fading light. Did it work? I also did something similar but closer.

 

 

Poll results shortly, I reckon this one may be close.

[CHAZ D]

7 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Hold your horses! That's a Type 3. We're still on Type 2s.

Just a type 2 with a bigger engine and no steam heating????

[great northern]

That wasn't easy. So many very detailed responses to consider. In the end, the stand out was Brush type 2, Class 31 with 6 votes. It also had one for the skinhead version only, and another for the full headcode box type only, so I gave those two half a point each, making seven. Class 26 got 4, and Class 27 3, so if you put those two together there would be a tie, but there were objections when it was suggested that should happen. Class 24 and 25 together got 4, and others a bit less.

 

What shall we do today?  Class 3?  Not many classes, but I think quite a lot of variations within them, particularly Class 37. How about allowing specific sub classes, so say, Class 37/5, but not "the ones with the little plate covering the whatsit" if you see what I mean? Please let's clarify that before we get under way. I need help here from people who know lots more than I do about diesels. Clive! Where are you?

[great northern]

15 minutes ago, CHAZ D said:

Just a type 2 with a bigger engine and no steam heating????

No worry, Type 3 poll today anyway.

[Taz]

Type 3 = Hymek.

Maybe not the most successful but definitely the best looking.

[JamieR4489]

37/0. Looks and sounds great.

[jollysmart]

Scruffy split head code 37 in BR blue. Got to be the one.

[Clive Mortimore]

Choices are quite limited when it comes to Type 3s, a bagpipe Crompton, or a split headcode D67xx or the GwR thingy?

 

What about the Ivatt Co-Co pair, 10000 and 10001. That will do me.

[Taz]

Gilbert, can I ask what sort of detail you put on your slides?

 

Presumably it details the prototype train and formation?

How to make it up from the fiddleyard and or cassettes?

Suitable motive power?

Anything else?

 

Thanks.

 

[LNERandBR]

Has to be a Class 37 for me.

 

If we're going for sub classes then it'll be the heavyweight 37/7 with the flush front:

 

 

[31A]

Type 3?  English Electric Type 3.

 

Gilbert, I think your pictures this morning with the 'fading light' effect work very well.

 

[3rd Rail Exile]

Crompton for me - specifically Bagpipe if we're doing sub-classes

[woodenhead]

Class 37/0  Blue, central headcode, bufferbeam cowls intact covered in Welsh coal or in a triple hauling a certain South Wales ore train

[Oldddudders]

BRCW Type 3, aka Crompton or, if you must, Class 33. Mainstay of Southern's diesel era, really. The Slimline version, specifically able to traverse the narrow-minded railway between Tonbridge and Bo-Peep Junction, added a certain quirkiness. 

[St Enodoc]

Hymek please. A Tri-ang one, preferably.

[bigwordsmith]

Class 33 - BRCW Type 3  whatever - commuted behind them from EastGrinstead for a few years!

[great northern]

20 minutes ago, Taz said:

Gilbert, can I ask what sort of detail you put on your slides?

 

Presumably it details the prototype train and formation?

How to make it up from the fiddleyard and or cassettes?

Suitable motive power?

Anything else?

 

Thanks.

 

 I found that what was needed depended on whether it was just going to be a prompt for me, or a guide for visitors who like operating the layout themselves. If the latter, lots more information needed. No vistors for the foreseeable future of course, and 99% of the time it will be just me, so it comes down to:-

 

 Sequence number

Locomotive number - all locos are in "sheds" and individuallly identified, so I can put my hand straight on the one I need.

Origin of train ie fiddle yard number. Destination, which will again usually be a FY road.

Make up of train, if not a fixed formation in the FY. So, if cassettes needed, identified by "CP".  If no such prefix, it will be from loose stock stored in drawers, but again I know exactly where to find it. So it might read. CP2 CP4 RF SO CP11 BSK.

Route and signals to be set. I use NCE macros, so simple numbers suffice. Up main would be 66. 1 .23. for example. If an individual point is involved, Acc** is shown. Signals also have accessory numbers.

Brief move description, eg "runs non stop via down main", or "runs to Platform 2 and stops".

Train description eg 1000 KX- Edinburgh The Flying Scotsman.

Time. 1115 for the example above.

 

It all sounds complicated, but actually goes comfortably onto one slide.

 

[Joseph_Pestell]

13 hours ago, great northern said:

Getting late here now, as it was at PN all those years ago. The last but one train of the sequence was the 1002 arrival from Grantham, the light having miraculously held out so that we can see the arrival of Knight of Thistle.

 

 

The line of vans in the Midland sidings was not intentional, but I think it does a lot for both of these images. Just ties everyhting together nicely, if you see what I mean.

 

Just to show that I am paying attention: those vans are on the Down Goods

[manna]

G'day Folks

 

Class 33 with a 4 TC or two, on a trip to Weymouth.......Lovely

 

manna

[jwealleans]

Hymek.   I had a Triang one.

[TrevorP1]

I will go for a 37/4 like this:

 

 

As used in Cornwall and Scotland, two of my favourite places.

[37Oban]

37/4. Had many enjoyable runs behind one between Oban and Glasgow.

 

Roja

 

[FarrMan]

Type 3? Has to be a Hymek. Lovely shape.

 

Lloyd

[great northern]

1 hour ago, 3rd Rail Exile said:

Crompton for me - specifically Bagpipe if we're doing sub-classes

Vos is zis Bagpipe, please?