Peterborough North

[jazzer]

10 hours ago, great northern said:

And still the camera is following 60501, but won't be able to do so for much longer, as Spital Bridge is in sight.

 

 

Hi Gilbert, I know I rave about Tims weathering from time to time but that effect on the tender of coal dust having been washed down in streaks by rain is superb. So typical of the era.

[landscapes]

11 hours ago, great northern said:

And still the camera is following 60501, but won't be able to do so for much longer, as Spital Bridge is in sight.

 

 

Great photo

[LNER4479]

LNWR? Aah, I'll go for the Super 'D' 0-8-0s G1? G2? G2A? A complex class history ... but you know the ones I mean, lasted into their hundreds well into the BR era, so can't have been all that bad. And the preserved one 49395 was a delight when returned to service in the last decade. So that gets my LNWR vote.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Super D

 

manna

[great northern]

One last lingering look at the A2/2.

 

 

[Sandhole]

SuperD.
Outlasted their replacements, the 'Austin seven' 7F 0-8-0s.

 

[Woodcock29]

Super D due to their long lives and the fun I had riding behind the preserved one on NYMR in 2008.

Andrew

Edited April 28, 2021 by Woodcock29

[Market65]

Me too for the Super D please. Excellent engines.

 

Rob.

[great northern]

Next in is KX's Tracery, with another FO train, the Catterick Camp leave train this time.

 

 

[Bloodnok]

15 hours ago, Metropolitan H said:

I have thought long and hard - resulting in my vote going to the LNWR's 3 car electric trains for the Euston - Watford and North London Lines.

Another vote for the LNWR 3-car Siemens/Oerlikon sets please...

[great northern]

Super D won the poll with 5 votes, more than half of the total .

 

Great Central today, what was the best of the best?

[Mallard60022]

04.

[sandra]

D10 director.

[New Haven Neil]

D10/11 Directors.  Vicki Butler-Henderson. 

[DaveF]

Directors - D10/D11

 

David

[Sandhole]

O4, for me.

[Woodcock29]

Difficult choice but I'll go with the D11 in this poll.

[Metropolitan H]

A difficult choice between the A5 4-6-2T and the D11 "Improved Director" 4-4-0.

 

The D11 edges it and gets my vote.

 

Regards

Chris H

[jazzer]

A5

[jollysmart]

Sticking with a favourite, 04.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Robinsons masterpiece, C4, 4-4-2.

 

manna

[2750Papyrus]

The favourites must be the D11 and O4, with the J11, A5 and C4 in the running too.  However, I recently read an article about GC locos by Dick Hardy in an old Steam World (I can't quote the issue).  From personal experience, he rated the B4 Imminghams and their near cousins, the B1s,  and reported that many GC footplate staff could not understand why the C4s had been multiplied in preference to the more sure-footed 4-6-0s.

 

So in deference to such an authority, my vote goes to the B4.

[thegreenhowards]

Clearly the O4 was the most successful GCR engine. But I’m not fond of them and most people seem to be ignoring the rules, so I’ll vote for the J11.

 

Andy

[great northern]

Tracery is rolling through non stop.

 

 

and will shortly be passing Prince of Wales, which will be stopping with the 5.35 Newcastle.

 

 

[mullie]

I do like a J11 so that gets my vote, supporting the underdog.

 

Martyn