Peterborough North

[FoxUnpopuli]

For the A1 photograph, I'm just not sure what it's a photograph of.   

 

Someone said they liked the 9F shot - I did too, but here's a recomposition.

 

[great northern]

Walk along to the very end of platform 2, try to get the trolleys out of shot, and what do we see? Why, it's another Ivatt, this one having come only from  as far as Wisbech.

 

 

But wait a few minutes, and look again. Now we have D201, and as it is approaching 5.25pm, we realise this must be the crew training local that was mentioned a while back.

 

 

No trains ran today, as I got fixated with cleaning and such like. I know I said at morning tea break I wouldn't do any more, but I did. I find it rewarding to look at things which have been a mess, sometimes for years, and see them neat and tidy and sometimes gleaming. This is a bit worrying.

Edited May 3, 2020 by great northern
to make sense

[trw1089]

Loved the photo of the West Riding earlier Gilbert.  The A1 diagrams for this are a trifle strange though mixing Ardsley and Copley Hill locos, but it seems they were almost interchangeable.  It reminds me I still need several more A1s just to have enough variety.

 

Cheers

Tony

[great northern]

One of the most popular visitors to PN is the W1, or so it would seem, and it is time for it to appear with its usual return working.

 

 

I do like this view, the key to success being, I think, to get the loco in the right place on the curve. The backscene looks OK from this angle too, and I also like the widescreen format. Obviously it is a layout photo, with no relevance at all to prototype accuracy, but none the worse for that.

 

As 60700 waits for the signal to continue its journey, another WD clanks off towards Ferme Park.

 

 

[JeffP]

No trains ran today, as I got fixated with cleaning and such like. I know I said at morning tea break I wouldn't do any more, but I did. I find it rewarding to look at things which have been a mess, sometimes for years, and see them neat and tidy and sometimes gleaming. This is a bit worrying

 

Wait until you get so obsessive that you start taking stuff to bits to clean it "properly".

[great northern]

26 minutes ago, JeffP said:

 

 

 

Wait until you get so obsessive that you start taking stuff to bits to clean it "properly".

Unlikely Jeff, as the chances of my putting it back together again properly are not high. However, this morning I have already cleaned another window sill in the railway room, and crawled into the most inaccessible place in the room. My back, my neck and my knees are all protesting now.

[great northern]

Time for tea again, and I feel I deserve it today. Not much more of this cleaning and tidying to do, thank goodness. I thought I might discover some long lost treaures, you know the kind of thing, couple of boxed A4s for instance, but nothing except dust and offcuts of wood and card.

 

We shall have another look at the W1 and WD from a different angle.

 

 

and then, taken a little while earlier, obviously, D201 whistling off towards London.

 

 

[great northern]

Afternoon photos delayed because as I came in from my walk the phone was ringing, and our friend Eric (Merlin 60027), was on the other end. So we have had a nice long chat, some of it about railways.

 

Appropriately, the next train at PN is on its way to Eric's neck of the woods, a Clarence Yard to Niddrie Class C.

 

 

 

 

Must get on now. I am allowing myself sausages for tea, as a reward for all the crawling around and clearing up.

[great northern]

End of another day, this one a bit too gloomy and cold for my liking. Sun tomorrow though. We have an 02/2 coming through with a Class F goods, and we get that through the bridge view again.

 

 

but there is a more portrait like shot as well.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

A much nicer day in prospect , so onwards we go. Morning photos feature the humble 4F, its task to take the 5.32 from East to Leicester.

 

 

 

 

 

One thing I did find the other day was a file containing my collection of Locomotives Illustrated, amassed over many years, and I've been leafing through some of them. We all have personal preferences, but let's see where we go with this. Taking one wheel configuration at a time, what do you think to be the most attractive of its type?  Not confined to the LNER and constituents, though one might expect them to feature heavily.

 

So, let us commence with .... the humble 0.6.0. The most attractive/graceful British 0.6.0 to run in the glorious days of steam.

[St Enodoc]

8 minutes ago, great northern said:

A much nicer day in prospect , so onwards we go. Morning photos feature the humble 4F, its task to take the 5.32 from East to Leicester.

 

 

 

 

 

One thing I did find the other day was a file containing my collection of Locomotives Illustrated, amassed over many years, and I've been leafing through some of them. We all have personal preferences, but let's see where we go with this. Taking one wheel configuration at a time, what do you think to be the most attractive of its type?  Not confined to the LNER and constituents, though one might expect them to feature heavily.

 

So, let us commence with .... the humble 0.6.0. The most attractive/graceful British 0.6.0 to run in the glorious days of steam.

GWR outside-framed Dean Goods or SE&CR O1.

[Woodcock29]

J6 or J11

 

Andrew

[A Murphy]

I'm a big fan of the J10 too.

 

Alastair M

[31A]

28 minutes ago, great northern said:

 

So, let us commence with .... the humble 0.6.0. The most attractive/graceful British 0.6.0 to run in the glorious days of steam.

 

Where to start, too many to choose .....  

 

I think I'd like to put a shout out for Gresley's J39 (and similar J38) class.  Obviously not 'Victorian' in styling but dating from an era when function (especially for a goods engine) would have priority over form nevertheless they are a neat design and almost elegant in their own way.  I was struck by this when looking at the pictures Tony Wright put on his thread a little while ago.

 

I think the Bachmann model hardly does them justice, really, in a way I can't quite put my finger on but something to do with the dated and clunky detailing I suppose.

 

 

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

I'm going for the J1, those 'Big' wheels get me every time.

 

manna

 

[thegreenhowards]

J6 for me

[great northern]

Some interesting replies already. The GN J classes seem to lead the way. As it happens, a J6 is next up at PN, bringing in that Grantham local that had a very light load.

 

 

here is that light load.

 

 

 

and the end of the journey.

 

 

[A Murphy]

Given that the 0-6-0 was the backbone of freight and other operations on British railways for the best part of 100 years, this is a large topic to go at! The Caledonian, the NER, NBR, Midland,  to name but a few, all operated some excellent looking and very useful 0-6-0 classes. The Dean goods must surely be up there and I also really like the rarely modeled Armstrong or standard goods, although they were mostly gone by the 1930s. Early GC types would also be on my list including 23s, and what became LNER J12. 

 

Cheers,

 

Alastair M

Edited May 5, 2020 by A Murphy
spelling

[Denbridge]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

GWR outside-framed Dean Goods or SE&CR O1.

The term outside frame dean goods is misleading and, I suspect, was probably coined by Keyser when they released a kit.  The prototypes shared little commonality with the 2301 class and their most direct relative was probably the Stella class 2.4.0's.

[trw1089]

Definitely the J6 is at the top of the list, but I do like the 4F and J11, and a J39 ain’t half bad either.  
 

Cheers

Tony

[New Haven Neil]

J27 of course - the last running, and powerful too.  And LOOK powerful!

[Mallard60022]

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, Denbridge said:

The term outside frame dean goods is misleading and, I suspect, was probably coined by Keyser when they released a kit.  The prototypes shared little commonality with the 2301 class and their most direct relative was probably the Stella class 2.4.0's.

I stand corrected. Can I change Dean to Armstrong or does that make it worse?

[bigwordsmith]

58 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

 

Trust you to throw controversy into the pot DuckMeister!

 

I always thought there was nothing wrong with them that a good pony truck wouldn't improve!

 

[jwealleans]

If we're all having two.... J15 followed by J6.