Peterborough North

[great northern]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

I think you posted the wrong photo, Gilbert.

I just found I had a bit of spare irony, so I used it up.

[BMacdermott]

13 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Diagram 10 (A,B,C) RF please - and the RT(P) to go with it.

 

Next?

 

Hello LNER4479

 

You'll have to wait until Monday 24 May!

 

Brian

Edited May 14, 2021 by BMacdermott
Corrected date.

[Mallard60022]

Has to be The Tyne and Bridges. As spectacularly modern and clean now as it was spectacularly industrial and crowded in the late 50s.

Durham  and the Cathedral in particular, is beautiful of course, so Mrs Mallard votes for that.

Bishop Grosseteste.

P

[Mallard60022]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I think you posted the wrong photo, Gilbert.

Oink!

P

[great northern]

Belatedly, the poll result. Not surprisingly the winner was Durham Cathedral, by a long way. Proceed now from Morpeth to Edinburgh, where I reckon you would be looking to the right a lot of the time anyway.

[Bloodnok]

1 hour ago, BMacdermott said:

concerning rolling stock not yet (or not fully yet) available in RTR form

 

What about not accurately enough yet available in RTR form? That's why I currently don't own any RTR Gresley coaches at the moment. Not that manufacturers haven't made them, but that they haven't captured the shape well enough...

[31A]

So much to see from the right hand side of the train on that stretch but I will go for running into Berwick from Tweedmouth with firstly the view of the Royal Border Bridge, and then running over it.  As well as the wonderful view of Berwick, if you turn your head you can look right down the Northumberland coast to Bamburgh.

 

[LNER4479]

20 minutes ago, great northern said:

Belatedly, the poll result. Not surprisingly the winner was Durham Cathedral, by a long way. Proceed now from Morpeth to Edinburgh, where I reckon you would be looking to the right a lot of the time anyway.

And there was me thinking that you'd split it at Berwick - so much of the delights of the East coast are crammed into this section across the border.

 

The Royal Border bridge does take some beating - 'iconic' is an entirely appropriate description.

 

However, the views out to sea running along the cliff tops just north of Berwick (as you actually cross the border) just shade it as my personal favourite.

[BMacdermott]

15 minutes ago, Bloodnok said:

 

What about not accurately enough yet available in RTR form? That's why I currently don't own any RTR Gresley coaches at the moment. Not that manufacturers haven't made them, but that they haven't captured the shape well enough...

Hello Bloodnok

 

You are welcome to try that one yourself, but I would be grateful if you could hold it until my series finishes - comments may arise that could usefully 'feed into' what you do.

 

Personally, I wont take the job on...I know from experience of running The 00 Wishlist Poll that it's a difficult subject!

 

Brian

[St Enodoc]

It's got to be one of the sea views, hasn't it?

 

So...

 

Holy Island (Lindisfarne)?

The sweep of the Tweed estuary and the Royal Border Bridge?

The border sign at Marshall Meadows?

Cockenzie Power Station (only kidding)?

 

Actually, no.

 

I'm going to choose the distant, oblique views of Arthur's Seat after Prestonpans until just before you swing to the right at Monktonhall.

 

[3rd Rail Exile]

Assuming that "The Northumberland Coast" (all the bits that can be seen from the train, taken together as one...) is a bit too unspecific to be allowable, I'll have to vote for the view of the Royal Border Bridge.  

[LNER4479]

I know I've already voted but it's so lovely along that stretch that I couldn't help posting a few pics:

 

Another favourite of mine is the view of Alnmouth, viewed from the train, south of the station. It's a charming little place, well worth the walk down from the station

 

And now that bridge. Horrors! If you look closely at the front of the train you'll see that it's not my normal 'fare' (it was Tornado on the way back - Elizabethan 2012).

 

Another walk from a station that's richly rewarded. Even the overhead structures don't impinge much on its elegant lines. What a beautiful thing - sheer poetry in architecture.

 

Now with proper motive power in charge - Tornado 'Top Gear' special 2009

 

with 'each a glimpse - gone forever' moments like this.

 

I shall forever be a die-hard West Coast fan ... but this stretch is the East Coast's tour de force

Edited May 14, 2021 by LNER4479

[30368]

20 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Another favourite of mine is the view of Alnmouth,

 

A truly lovely little place. The first few production HST trial runs terminated here and most of the team lunched in a tavern in Alnmouth. I can remember on one occasion some of the team, me included, missed the return trip to Derby LL. The runs to Alnmouth ended shortly after...

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

Edited May 15, 2021 by 30368

[Mallard60022]

I always love the roofs of the houses in Alnmouth that sort of glow orangey red as if in Italy.

[FarrMan]

It has to be the Border sign just North of Berwick. Always gives me a warm feeling to know that I am back in Scotland, perhaps more that I am out of Englandshire.

 

Lloyd

[Sandhole]

Going over the Tyne into Newcastle.

[Flying Fox 34F]

Holy Island at Sunset

 

Paul

[Sandhole]

As regards LNER stock I'd like to see,
Gresley metal sided stock, both solo and articulated.
Tourist stock too.

[Woodcock29]

Coming into Berwick and seeing the Royal Border Bridge curving to the right in front and the estuary.

Andrew

[BMacdermott]

1 hour ago, Sandhole said:

As regards LNER stock I'd like to see,
Gresley metal sided stock, both solo and articulated.
Tourist stock too.

Hello Sandhole

 

Please vote on Monday - I am not counting until then, and only on those on the list.

 

Thanks.

 

Brian

[Sandhole]

38 minutes ago, BMacdermott said:

Hello Sandhole

 

Please vote on Monday - I am not counting until then, and only on those on the list.

 

Thanks.

 

Brian

OK, no probs.

[Welly]

Close run between Almouth and Berwick - I'll go for Almouth

 

(No votes for Torness?  )

[Metropolitan H]

My vote goes to Berwick with the Tweed estuary and the Royal Border Bridge.

 

Regards

Chris H

[Clive Mortimore]

North of Newcastle ????? Hadrian had the best idea, build a high wall then you cannot see what is going on. 

                                                                                            

[Bloodnok]

 

3 hours ago, BMacdermott said:

You are welcome to try that one yourself, but I would be grateful if you could hold it until my series finishes - comments may arise that could usefully 'feed into' what you do.

 

I am not proposing to run my own poll. And even if I did, I wouldn't assume I could just decide to start one in Gilbert's thread...

 

3 hours ago, BMacdermott said:

Personally, I wont take the job on...I know from experience of running The 00 Wishlist Poll that it's a difficult subject!

As much as I disagree with the choice (because most of what I personally want has been done before but to poor standards of accuracy), I absolutely understand how it is both entirely subjective and creates debate, and why both of these things are utter cancer in the context of something like The 00 Wishlist Poll.