Peterborough North

[great northern]

Well, that was clever, wasn't it? I forgot to hit submit reply last night, didn't I? So you have to wait for the last of the sequence for a while longer.

 

Thanks for the thoughts on lighting. I agree that as it is supposed to be summer, there is too much of a cold feel, and I shall shortly do some fiddling about.

[great northern]

7 minutes ago, FarrMan said:

It was not always summer in Peterborough in those days!

One might say it was rarely summer some years, but it was rarely December either, so I do need to warm things up a bit.

[great northern]

Bit of messing about, what do you think?

 

 

[Oldddudders]

Definitely moving away from the ice-cold look. Good.

[30368]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Definitely moving away from the ice-cold look.

 

Ian, Did your desire to dress up in strange clothes start when you moved to The Sarthe? I can't believe you would have been thus attired at Wellesley Grove in days gone by?

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[great northern]

And so to those last two trains of the sequence. One from the North, the 1010pm stopper from Grantham.

 

 

And one from the South, the 7.21pm slow from KX, which usually seems to have been a Pacific turn, and often an A4.

 

 

Just two more to come tomorrow morning, and then Saturday will commence.

 

A lovely sunny day today, so few lighting problems, but I have been experimenting by augmenting the natural light with the LEDs. Everything looks positive at this stage, but I have a lot of photoshopping to do.

[Welly]

21 hours ago, great northern said:

Bit of messing about, what do you think?

 

 

A lot warmer - it feels like dusk in Summer.

[great northern]

The very last weekday shots, with both stoppers resting at the end of their journeys.

 

 

ending with another look under the roof.

 

 

[great northern]

So, Saturday morning, just after 7.00am, and things will be considerably different from that to which you have become accustomed. But...... not for a little while, as we have B17 Huddersfield Town waiting in the bay to take over the Edinburgh-Colchester, as it would do any other day of the week.

 

 

and across at Platform 6, the 7.37 Parly to Doncaster is already assembled and ready to go.

 

 

The formation is rather different, but you'll have to take my word for that.

Edited May 15, 2022 by great northern
spelling

[Captain_Mumbles]

Any chance of seeing some more consists with some of the crimson and cream Gresley and Thompson coaches and brake vans for inspirational purposes?

[great northern]

In comes the Edinburgh-Colchester, a very easy task for an A4 that hasn't seen a cleaner for a long time.

 

 

I tried this, and for me it didn't work, but I'll leave you to decide.

 

 

[31A]

37 minutes ago, great northern said:

I tried this, and for me it didn't work, but I'll leave you to decide.

 

It's an interesting angle!  A pity the front of the loco is out of focus, but that gives it more of a 1950s Box Brownie feel.

[great northern]

11 hours ago, Captain_Mumbles said:

Any chance of seeing some more consists with some of the crimson and cream Gresley and Thompson coaches and brake vans for inspirational purposes?

Not many of those on a Saturday, I'm afraid, but if one does show up I'll try to remember to feature the stock.

[great northern]

A visit from Tim, now Timara, today, and as usual there were goodies, which I have decided to ration this time, rather than give you a surfeit all at once. First one coming up, but as usual some explanation precedes it. As you will know, most of you anyway, A2/3 Dante was recently retired from PN, and has moved to a new home. It had to be replaced, and my choice was.....

 

 

 

 

Whatever we may think about the man himself, the loco named after him was allocated to New England for most of its relatively short existence, and really has to be included as one of the most regularly seen. I had CGW nameplates for ET, acquired many years ago, and Tim and I had talked about doing it years before the Hornby model appeared. He found a new apple green loco for a very good price, and as a BR so called green one would have had a complete repaint, that's what we did. I found a colour photo taken in 1960, about five months after a general overhaul, and as the previous overhaul had been in April 58, I felt that it would be a good indication of what it looked like by August.

 

Tim has achieved exactly what I'd hoped for, which is a loco that has gradually been accumulating grime since it came out of the paint shop, but which had not yet had time to get to New England's all too common condition. By August 59 it was utterly filthy.

 

Two more to come tomorrow, one of which may involve me in copyright issues with one our most eminent contributors.

 

 

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by great northern
to correct stupid error

[davidw]

I've a Graeme king derived a2/3, DJH  and two Hornby. Seeing that makes me want more! Lovely model. Thanks for sharing

[landscapes]

11 hours ago, great northern said:

A visit from Tim, now Timasina, today, and as usual there were goodies, which I have decided to ration this time, rather than give you a surfeit all at once. First one coming up, but as usual some explanation precedes it. As you will know, most of you anyway, A2/3 Dante was recently retired from PN, and has moved to a new home. It had to be replaced, and my choice was.....

 

 

 

 

Whatever we may think about the man himself, the loco named after him was allocated to New England for most of its relatively short existence, and really has to be included as one of the most regularly seen. I had CGW nameplates for ET, acquired many years ago, and Tim and I had talked about doing it years before the Hornby model appeared. He found a new apple green loco for a very good price, and as a BR so called green one would have had a complete repaint, that's what we did. I found a colour photo taken in 1960, about five months after a general overhaul, and as the previous overhaul had been in April 58, I felt that it would be a good indication of what it looked like by August.

 

Tim has achieved exactly what I'd hoped for, which is a loco that has gradually been accumulating grime since it came out of the paint shop, but which had not yet had time to get to New England's all too common condition. By August 59 it was utterly filthy.

 

Two more to come tomorrow, one of which may involve me in copyright issues with one our most eminent contributors.

 

 

 

Morning Gilbert

 

Tim has worked his magic again, stunning looking model and superbly weathered.

 

Regards

 

David

[great northern]

An overnight Class C from Niddrie comes through next. 60803, a March V2, has just taken over, and is on its way to KX to be ready when Top Shed gets caught short later.

 

 

and so now we can have two V2s for the price of one.

 

 

60803 is on the Up slow, as the Edinburgh-Colchester is still at Platform 2.

[great northern]

Time for the next goodie, and it is another V2. In fact it is a loco which has been seen on PN for some time, but which again has gone to a new home. That one was Pro Scale, ex Stoke and Charwelton, though I had renumbered it to 60862, a KX engine. There were couping difficulties with that one though, so it has been replaced with another Timmed Bachmann loco, but with the same identity. As we always do if possible, this is weathered as evidenced by a contemporary colour image.

 

 

 

 

[davidw]

V2s and thompson's, Swans and  ducklings

Edited May 17, 2022 by davidw

[New Haven Neil]

Never thought I would say it, but I am rather smitten with 60500!  Great work once again from Timara.

[31A]

5 hours ago, great northern said:

Time for the next goodie, and it is another V2. In fact it is a loco which has been seen on PN for some time, but which again has gone to a new home. That one was Pro Scale, ex Stoke and Charwelton, though I had renumbered it to 60862, a KX engine. There were couping difficulties with that one though, so it has been replaced with another Timmed Bachmann loco, but with the same identity. As we always do if possible, this is weathered as evidenced by a contemporary colour image.

 

 

 

 

 

Going by quite a lot of published photos, it appears that 60862 was usually smartly turned out, which Tim has (as usual) caught to a tee!

 

[Timara]

The opportunity to recreate another of my late father's photos from PN could not really be passed up yesterday.  It's a year out, but I'm not overly bothered.....

 

The real thing, seen on 27th July 1957.

 

 

The model, portrayed a year later.

 

 

Cheers,

Timara

 

[Timara]

6 minutes ago, 31A said:

 

Going by quite a lot of published photos, it appears that 60862 was usually smartly turned out, which Tim has (as usual) caught to a tee!

 

 

Not always so neat as a pin....  The reference photo we chose this time was the one of it on a fitted freight near Brookmans Park in early 1959, where the firebox and tender seem to be a little on the grubbier side.  It's not easy to tell from the model photos, alas....

 

Either way, it was nice to do this one, especially the fun I had (ha!) with the smokebox number plate!

[davidw]

53 minutes ago, Tim said:

 

Not always so neat as a pin....  The reference photo we chose this time was the one of it on a fitted freight near Brookmans Park in early 1959, where the firebox and tender seem to be a little on the grubbier side.  It's not easy to tell from the model photos, alas....

 

Either way, it was nice to do this one, especially the fun I had (ha!) with the smokebox number plate!

Smoke box no. plate?

[great northern]

People with big pollen allergies should not clip hedges at this time of year. Especially after already doing it on Saturday and suffering for it. I din't want to leave it half done, you see. Silly old fool. If I can stop coughing I might get some sleep.

 

Just one image before bed, 60803 again, moving back across to the Up side to carry on towards London.