Peterborough North

[great northern]

60113 has shown up...... as a B1.

We apologise for the digital failure that occured earlier. Right digit, wrong key.

[stewartingram]

Digital Malfunction

(ie Finger Trouble).

 

Stewart

[Mallard60022]

Gilbert, a question if I may about the surface mounted (Points) Micro-switches in the Fiddle. Can you tell me where the power source is from please; is it the track power (i.e. a wire from each rail and thus DCC) or a lower voltage source (e.g. 12v and thus Analogue DC)?

Please PM if you wish.

Many thanks,

Duck. 

[BobM]

So much for the theory that golf might put my back into place. One more photo before trying to get some sleep.

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Oh all right then, two.

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Nearly finished with the Elizabethan now, honest.

 

Such perfection here....I can only envy your skills...well done (makes me want to cover my developing layout with a dustsheet) !

[great northern]

Gilbert, a question if I may about the surface mounted (Points) Micro-switches in the Fiddle. Can you tell me where the power source is from please; is it the track power (i.e. a wire from each rail and thus DCC) or a lower voltage source (e.g. 12v and thus Analogue DC)?

Please PM if you wish.

Many thanks,

Duck. 

Track power Phil, they just come off the main bus.

[great northern]

I have been manipulated by a very nice young lady, and now feel much better.   And so we shall have some more pictures. Behind the misdescribed B1 there was a Gresley steel panelled artic set, still with the original short composite in the middle.

And very soon after it vacated Platform 3, the 1.45pm KX- Newcastle ran in to take its place, headed by one of those controversial Thompson engines.

The clouds are closing in again, it doesn't stay sunny for long at PN.

[CUTLER2579]

I have been manipulated by a very nice young lady, and now feel much better.    

 

Gilbert,

so pleased for you,but glad you waited for the "Watershed" to tell us.

 

Regards,Derek.

[great northern]

This morning's photos will reveal the identity of the Thompson Pacific, but of course if you have been paying attention you already know the answer.

Spherical object bashing time.

[great northern]

More than a trifle fatigued again, so a quick visit to post just one more image.

Dante resting before going on to Grantham, where it will come off, is passed by a LIncoln B1 arriving from Grimsby. As it is Friday, it will carry on to KX. The B1 is on its last legs, and progresses in a series of hops, but I remember it very well from my spotting days. and so it will carry on while it still can.

[great northern]

This morning was spent with my financial advisor, who felt that my suggestion to sell up all my investments and put the proceeds in a suitcase under the bed was a bit simplistic, so we decided to do nothing and hope. This afternoon I have struggled with an absence of light, but managed a bit of weathering. I also scraped the bottom of the barrel, and came up with two more images from the last shoot.

The C12 pilot is bringing stock for the shuttle service down to East into number 1 bay.

While at the other end 60854 at last gets the road to continue its journey to Doncaster.

 

I've also hacked that water crane about a bit more, and made a bit of a mess of it. Never mind, it was the first attempt, and I have several more which I can work on, and apply the knowledge gained from this attempt, to produce something better. I've seen enough to decide that it is a worthwhile exercise.

Far less obtrusive, and a basis for something which, though still not prototypically correct, will be a step forward, I think.

[rockershovel]

I have been manipulated by a very nice young lady, and now feel much better.    

 

Gilbert,

so pleased for you,but glad you waited for the "Watershed" to tell us.

 

Regards,Derek.

I have a daughter so I have that experience most days...

[rockershovel]

The picture of the 4-4-2 under Crescent Bridge is quite exceptionally good..

[great northern]

One more photo this evening, taken this afternoon on a very dull day indeed.

I was looking for a different angle, and wondered what could be done with the D16 standing in the Up bay platform. I resorted to black and white as I normally do when shooting against the light. Does it work? I leave that to you.

[great northern]

Nothing much in the image store at present, but our man did get a look at an A1 running in under Crescent Bridge with the 1.52pm KX - Doncaster.

I did remember to at least weather those huge lamps, but not until after this shot had been taken. And the sun came out so far as the railway is concerned because I couldn't be ar$ed to photoshop all those gaps in the bridge structure agin so soon after I last did it.

Edited March 19, 2016 by great northern

[great northern]

Bit of a problem here. I can't think of any places to take photos that you haven't already seen many times, and photos taken in poor light tend to be poor themselves. So, here is the best I can come up with.

One of the last A4s with single chimney, here waiting to take over the Northumbrian, when it arrives. That isn't it in the background, by the way. In typical Gateshead condition, she had a very poor reputation in the 50s until the fitting of a double chimney transformed her. I believe that a badly fitting smokebox door turned out to be the reason for the engine steaming so poorly for so long.

[great northern]

And so today we have sun and warmth, but no golf. The camera has been pointed, and the results are encouraging, but have not yet been tidied up. It is strange, but some days a whole shoot produces uninspiring results, while on another everything seems to come out well. I was about to delete the rest of the last lot, which were very uninspiring, when I realised that people might want to record the number of the A1, so here it is.

That young lad's head is in the way of the cabside number - Coachmann wouldn't like that - but you can see the name OK. Of course there is also something growing out of the chimney as usual. Not photoshopped, too idle.

[gresley]

And so today we have sun and warmth, but no golf. The camera has been pointed, and the results are encouraging, but have not yet been tidied up. It is strange, but some days a whole shoot produces uninspiring results, while on another everything seems to come out well. I was about to delete the rest of the last lot, which were very uninspiring, when I realised that people might want to record the number of the A1, so here it is.

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That young lad's head is in the way of the cabside number - Coachmann wouldn't like that - but you can see the name OK. Of course there is also something growing out of the chimney as usual. Not photoshopped, too idle.

Gilbert,

 

Neither do I !!!

 

Stuart

[JeffP]

Someone has had it away with Amadis' coupling too.

[great northern]

Someone has had it away with Amadis' coupling too.

Just mislaid Jeff, I'm sure. It will be lying somewhere.

[great northern]

Another picture, another WD, more coal empties, no shackle. I don't know where they go. The perils of handling locos, I suppose.

The curve is less sharp on the slow, so this doesn't look too bad, and it didn't need shopping, which is good.

[gwrrob]

Now I do like the angle of that shot Gilbert.Very nice modelling.

[JeffP]

There's a coupling thief about...the WD one has gone too!

 

Have you sent the Railway Police to search the spotters?

[great northern]

There's a coupling thief about...the WD one has gone too!

 

Have you sent the Railway Police to search the spotters?

I wouldn't fancy trying to stuff one of those down a pair of short trousers.

[great northern]

The first day of spring. Dull and gloomy so far, but we do have some photos taken in better conditions.

The WD on the Down slow has progressed a bit further.

and further still, but in monochrome. These took a bit of finding, as my "recently changed" list on the PC, which has always shown the latest images first, has now decided to reverse the order and put them at the bottom of the list instead. Why? I haven't done anything to it.

 

Now it is time to do my exercises, and then to try to fit a 21 pin decoder. I know which will be easier.

[Market65]

The monochrome photo looks so real - I thought you had slipped in a prototype photo on the side so to speak! It just shows how good your layout is. Just so real.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.