Peterborough North

[great northern]

A last look at 60120, and no more Pullmans will be seen for a few hours now.

Meanwhile the C12 has been down to Nene sidings to collect the stock for the 1.12 slow to KX, and is now bringing it into Platform 2.

[Grafarman]

Those Pullmans are beautiful....

 

David

[great northern]

The 1.15 to Yarmouth is in the bay.

while Robert the Devil and crew, having enjoyed a nice rest, now set off for Grantham.

 

[great northern]

Our man on Spital Bridge sees 60110 coming, and takes a shot from distance. 

He was going to crop it, but then realised it shows the majority of the layout, and so left it as it was.

 

As the A3 got closer, he moved a few steps to the side, and took this closer shot, which he did decide should be cropped.

[great northern]

The B1 has backed on, and someone decided to get a head on shot from the end of the platform as it moved off.

and someone else decided to add the second image, before I wanted that to happen. Anyway, this had been a very sunny morning, but it went in just before taking these, and so they relied on artificial light. For some reason, the unit at the South end is set in further, and so is right overhead for shots like this, which is far from ideal.

 

The second image is from a more sensible angle, but looked awful in colour, so I tried black and white, which to me actually looks quite convincing.

Edited November 5, 2023 by great northern
image problems

[great northern]

How about a nice autumnal scene?

[Oldddudders]

Acer!

[lezz01]

I have one outside the front door. It's only a year or so old so not as magnificent as that.

Regards Lez.

[great northern]

Now we have a series of images featuring KX A3 Doncaster, and the 1200 FO  KX-Newcastle. We start as usual at the South end, and with a hopeful shot into the light.

Fairly horrible, really, but then we have something a bit more sensible.

Can't really turn the colour up any further, but to me this still looks cold.

[St Enodoc]

11 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Acer!

What's my laptop got to do with it?

[great northern]

Doncaster emerges into daylight.

and is seen through the arch. The nice lady seems to be very interested

[great northern]

Still with 60048, a little further on....

followed by a very hopeful shot from the first floor window of one of the DE buildings.

If you think I should have binned this, please hit agree. It may  prevent me posting such things in the furure.

[great northern]

Only three agrees, not quite enough to prevent me from posting this.

I won't do it in future though, or certainly not at this time of year.

Now there is a gap of half an hour with nothing due on the Up, so the opportunity, as seems to have always occurred, was taken to get another load of coal on the way to Ferme Park.

[juke]

The shot above this mornings has a cloudy circle on the leading coach. Today's shot doesn't so maybe a smear on the lens yesterday?

 

(RMWeb went down just as I tried to post this, when it came up my post was still waiting to go. I then noticed the next picture has a similar smudge, on the track.}

 

If it were not for that I was happy with the shot.

 

Syd

Edited November 7, 2023 by juke
Spelling error

[Clive Mortimore]

 

Mission accomplished.

 

 

[great northern]

11 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

 

Mission accomplished.

 

 

You are a very very naughty boy, and devious too.

[great northern]

8 hours ago, juke said:

The shot above this mornings has a cloudy circle on the leading coach. Today's shot doesn't so maybe a smear on the lens yesterday?

 

(RMWeb went down just as I tried to post this, when it came up my post was still waiting to go. I then noticed the next picture has a similar smudge, on the track.}

 

If it were not for that I was happy with the shot.

 

Syd

The spot was caused by the incoming light. It is still there on the second image, lower because the camera angle has changed, but not on the third one, the 9F, which was taken very shortly afterwards. I hadn't wiped the lens in the meantime.

[great northern]

We follow the slow progress of the 9F.

You will gather that the gang have been here today, and we had a lovely time, save for one brief outbreak of naughtiness.

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

The spot was caused by the incoming light. 

I think it is called flare. Not to be confused with flair, which may help when imagining how a layout could look. 

[AHW]

It's a daily pleasure to log in and view the updates on this thread. As a young man I was obsessed with GWR branch lines desirous of that chocolate box countryside to obliterate the bleakness of my surroundings (I lived in South East Essex at the time). In my later years I am so glad that I 'found' the ECML which is now my 'hobby' of choice. Watching the running orders unfold on this layout never gets old.

 

Luckily I am travelling to Yorkshire by train tomorrow so will get a few hours of the real thing.....

[great northern]

The 9F is followed by one of Grantham's less well kept A3s, which has the 9.47 Newcastle-KX.

 

[Clive Mortimore]

17 hours ago, great northern said:

You are a very very naughty boy, and devious too.

I was very lucky to have a top floor room in the Great Northern and to witness a bus going over Crescent Bridge.

[great northern]

4 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I was very lucky to have a top floor room in the Great Northern and to witness a bus going over Crescent Bridge.

You were very lucky not to get a smack round the tab.😠

[great northern]

15 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

I think it is called flare. Not to be confused with flair, which may help when imagining how a layout could look. 

Lens flare it is, Thank you ian.

[Tony Wright]

19 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

I think it is called flare. Not to be confused with flair, which may help when imagining how a layout could look. 

Good evening Ian,

 

In my experience, lens flare is caused by internal reflection between compound lenses inside the lens itself (I assume Gilbert's camera has compound lenses?); usually caused when shooting against the light. 

 

No amount of cleaning the two external lenses (at the front or the rear, assuming a lens can be removed from the camera) will prevent this. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony.