Peterborough North

[great northern]

On goes Andrew K, and now passes the B12, which can't reverse its stock down to the carriage sidings until the A4 and train are out of the way.

and as it carries on, the D16 comes into shot as well.

But, for the time being this is as far as the goods gets, as it has to cross the main to get into Westwood Yard, and on the main, there is something approaching.

[great northern]

And here is the approaching something, Mons Meg with the 1010 Edinburgh-KX, which it will have taken over somewhere further north, perhaps even as far as Newcastle. A sandwich between A4 and D16 seemed irresistible.

and another shot taken just a little further on.

[great northern]

More of Mons Meg, from up on the bridge...

and the very familiar view from over by the Midland sidings.

These shots with artificial light look cold even when I boost the colour, but if I go even a little further it becomes too much.

[Woodcock29]

9 hours ago, great northern said:

More of Mons Meg, from up on the bridge...

and the very familiar view from over by the Midland sidings.

These shots with artificial light look cold even when I boost the colour, but if I go even a little further it becomes too much.

Makes me feel cool when it's 39C here today.

Keep up the great work Gilbert.

Thanks

Andrew

Edited January 14, 2023 by Woodcock29
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[great northern]

2 hours ago, Woodcock29 said:

Makes me feel cool when it's 39C here today.

Keep up the great work Gilbert.

Thanks

Andrew

Can't resist this, as I never thought I'd be able to say it. It was hotter than that round here last July.

[great northern]

Hands up those who remember the awful B pictures that preceded the main event at the pictures back in the good old days. "It came from Outer Space!", and best, or worst, of all "The Blob". "Discussions" with the girl friend of the day on the back row were vastly preferable. Some of them had sequels... The return of.....whatever it was. All of which is to announce on this cold grey morning...........The Return of the Plonks.

 

[30368]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Hands up those who remember the awful B pictures that preceded the main event at the pictures

 

Oh yes Gilbert. Some real gems although sadly I can't remember much about them except one called "The Tingler" - does that ring any bells (sorry) for anyone? Fear became incarnate and crawled around looking for a human spine to inhabit....

 

I do though remember all the original St Trinians films....

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

 

[great northern]

Tonight we shall feature a train. It is the 3.40 Down Newcastle, and it has an A4, Silver King.

 

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by great northern
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[Woodcock29]

15 hours ago, great northern said:

Can't resist this, as I never thought I'd be able to say it. It was hotter than that round here last July.

Trouble is our predicted 39 yesterday became 40.6 in reality! But then you might have got that?

[Woodcock29]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

Tonight we shall feature a train. It is the 3.40 Down Newcastle, and it has an A4, Silver King.

 

 

I think these wide views are really good. Of course the new houses on the road and the left bridge extension finish it off nicely.

Andrew

[great northern]

8 hours ago, Woodcock29 said:

Trouble is our predicted 39 yesterday became 40.6 in reality! But then you might have got that?

Not quite. Our new record was 40.3, about 30 miles from here, but it isn't that long ago that 27c was very unusual.

[great northern]

More plonks this morning., though the first one does have a train in it.

 

 

[Metropolitan H]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

More plonks this morning., though the first one does have a train in it.

 

 

I can also see the rear end of a train in the "Up" platform in the second picture - so you are underselling yout post. Not only that but the second picture features your C12 4-4-2T as pilot - I like C12s!

 

Well done.

 

Regards

Chris H

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Metropolitan H said:

I can also see the rear end of a train in the "Up" platform in the second picture - so you are underselling yout post. Not only that but the second picture features your C12 4-4-2T as pilot - I like C12s!

 

Well done.

 

Regards

Chris H

As I typed it I did think exactly that, but was too idle to qualify what I was saying. Could anyone not like C12s? If so, one really should feel sorry for them.

[mullie]

A Claud and a C12, what's not to like. 

[stewartingram]

6 hours ago, mullie said:

A Claud and a C12, what's not to like. 

The C12, its not GE

Edited January 15, 2023 by stewartingram

[New Haven Neil]

The N5 now, THAT's a pilot......

 

I love the Claud and B12 too, two of my favourite locos, Triang to blame in my youth for the B12 I fear.

[PMP]

Paging @great northern There's a message for you in your inbox 

Brgds pmp 

[great northern]

The last plonk for the time being, and it had to be one which featured Station Road.

There is action around North box, as Silver King meets the D16, which is finally being allowed to bring its stock into Platform 2.

[great northern]

The D16 has got just a little further.

I really like that one. Then we have two A4s, as Silver King passes Andrew K. Must get on, as Timara is due shortly.

[great northern]

An eventful day. Timara duly arrived, bearing goodies, as always, but the first job of the day was to put a new EPROM into my NCE Powerpro, in the hope that might stop the strange things which have been happening. It was installed and.... nothing worked. Phone call to Digitrains in Lincoln, who had supplied it by post. A few questions answered by Timara got the advice that it was a dud. Put the old one back in, and found that all my route setting macros had been wiped, which should not have happened. Digitrains had one more in stock, so Timara suggested, sensibly, that rather than reprogramme everything into the old one, only to have to do it all again when the new one arrived, I should go to Lincoln to pick it up. This I did, quite quickly, it must be said. Picked up new one, and returned, even more quickly. The car hadn't experienced anything like it for years. The only suggestion that came up was that Royal mail may have scanned it, thus scrambling it beyond use.

 

It was installed, and worked, thank goodness, so I spent time, later helped by Timara, doing some reprogramming, a very tedious task, and it isn't finished yet. As a result, I wasn't able to photograph the goodies, which will have to wait till tomorrow. When my stress levels came down a bit, it occurred to me that I was fortunate that I only had a 70 mile round trip to put things right.

 

Calmed down somewhat now, and got some food down, having missed lunch, so here is a photo to look upon, before I head for my bed. It is days like this that make me realise that I really am as old as my birth certificate claims.

 

[trw1089]

Hope the NCE issues settle down Gilbert, I'll be interested to hear how you get on.  I put a new chip in mine a couple of years ago so I could upgrade it to work with JMRI plus some additional detection capabilities, thankfully all uneventful.

 

Love the pic of the two A4s, but I must ask, can we have a B17 sometime soon😉

 

Cheers

Tony

 

[great northern]

A quick photo before I get on with the route setting, as I can't run things properly till I finish that.

[Mallard60022]

Well that was a bit of a faff and at least it weren't thick snow I suppose.

On the bright side it is worth noting about Digitrains suggesting that Scanning 'possibility' thing. They at least could send stuff in an anti scan pack. Worth announcing the 'possibility' elsewhere G? Spread the word of the 'possibility'. I keep saying 'possibility' as there are some on certain parts of RMW that will deny any such thing can ever occur and you are wrong and that DCC is the Spawn of Belezebub etc.

My Power Cab continues to potter on, but as you may remember I have Analogue and Digitalis Fingerpokin Route Setting (apart from those Froggy Things at Fiddle Yard X Overs etc.)

Have a good day and thanks for the update. 

Hope Timara a was OK and that you complete your reprogramming successfully.

P

[great northern]

17 hours ago, trw1089 said:

Hope the NCE issues settle down Gilbert, I'll be interested to hear how you get on.  I put a new chip in mine a couple of years ago so I could upgrade it to work with JMRI plus some additional detection capabilities, thankfully all uneventful.

 

Love the pic of the two A4s, but I must ask, can we have a B17 sometime soon😉

 

Cheers

Tony

 

I'm afraid not, Tony. There is only one more train that might bring one, the Colchester-Glasgow right at the end of the sequence, and even that might have a B2.