Peterborough North

[great northern]

13 on for 60105, so it waits well off the platform end.

 

and even further once it has moved on to get the last coaches onto the platform.

[great northern]

Now we have Flying Scotsman reversing into the bay.

Fortunately just before the view was obscured by this York V2 heading home with the early evening KX-Dringhouses Class C.

[stewartingram]

I bet the platform wasn't crowded with onlookers back in those days just to view that A3!

[great northern]

2 hours ago, stewartingram said:

I bet the platform wasn't crowded with onlookers back in those days just to view that A3!

Indeed. Just another very commonly seen A3.

[great northern]

A look from the bridge, as the Dringhouses goods clatters onwards.

 

and onwards still, but only as far as the obligatory stop for examination and adding and detaching vans in Westwood yard.

[great northern]

A last look at the V2, one of Timara's best weathering jobs, in my opinion.

 

Then its time for another A3. Minoru of 34A has an Up Hull-KX.

[great northern]

More of Minoru this morning.

with a C12 for added interest.

[great northern]

One A3 is swiftly followed by another, 60065  is in charge of the 5.35 KX-Newcastle, one of Grantham's most prestigious duties, and has been very well prepared for the job.

 

[great northern]

The Newcastle from a rather higher viewpoint.

 

an

and while awaiting departure.

I thought long and hard before including this, because of the various things protruding from the A3.  The problem is though that if I excluded all shots on those grounds I would be very limited in what I can actually show, as there are so many of them all around. In the end I liked the rest of the composition sufficiently to justify inclusion. You may not agree, of course.

[Oldddudders]

But the real railwayscape was just as infuriating in blighting composition of a moving train image. Not an issue. 

[great northern]

Last two of 60065. I do like this going away shot, though it does mean a lot of lattice shopping. Every signal at the North end is in shot.

Less lattices but more light to contend with on this one.

 

[great northern]

Here's a strange train. This is the 3.02pm from Grimsby which has made the usual slow progress this far. However, instead of terminating as normal, this one continues to KX, arriving at 10.02pm. Just the seven hours for the trip then, if anyone was mad enough to do that. The usual Immingham B1 has brought the train thus far, but Flying Scotsman will take it the rest of the way. Later, we shall look at the formation of the train.

 

 

[37Oban]

24 minutes ago, great northern said:

Here's a strange train. This is the 3.02pm from Grimsby which has made the usual slow progress this far. However, instead of terminating as normal, this one continues to KX, arriving at 10.02pm. Just the seven hours for the trip then, if anyone was mad enough to do that. The usual Immingham B1 has brought the train thus far, but Flying Scotsman will take it the rest of the way. Later, we shall look at the formation of the train.

 

 

 

 

Hi,

 

that is a train of my dreams!  There's a place for expresses but I prefer gentle meanderings giving time to appreciate the views!

 

Roja

[great northern]

So, here is the motley collection of stock behind the B1.

First, a confession. I did not look at the CWN when putting this train together, and relied on the details on the slide of the sequence. So, the leading BG should have been attached at PN, but I had it come all the way from Grimsby. What's more when it got here I discovered I had a coupling problem, so it got swapped for another one, as you will see later. So it did have a BG attached at PN after all. Then the passenger stock, which will return on the 5.52 stopper from KX tomorrow. Then that van. If I'd looked properly I would have seen that it is described as M&GN fish. But the CWN doesn't say that it was either attached or detached at PN, so I'm not sure what that is about.. Then another BG, which did make the whole journey. Both BGs are marked " intermediate", and I'm not sure what that means either. Can any of our visiting railwaymen help? They both had a quick turn round at KX, returning at 12 45am to Grimsby, and 2.00am to PN.

 

The train then stopped at PN for twelve minutes during which time the engine change took place, and probably some loading and unloading of the BGs.  Then Scotsman took another 2 hours and 48 minutes to do the 76 miles to KX, stopping at nearly every station on the way. The record of the engine change must wait for the morning.

[31A]

20 minutes ago, great northern said:

Both BGs are marked " intermediate", and I'm not sure what that means either.

 

Carrying traffic for intermediate stations, perhaps.

 

[great northern]

17 minutes ago, 31A said:

 

Carrying traffic for intermediate stations, perhaps.

 

That's what I thought, but felt it might be a bit too simple.

[great northern]

B1 ready to come off.

and a few minutes later, Scotsman is on its way. Shouldn't be any wheel slip with this load. The HMRS survey shows 60103 0n this duty on 7th July 1958. Later in the week 60033 worked it on two successive days, so one assumes it was part of a normal diagram, rather than a sign of an engine in poor condition and relegated to light work.

[great northern]

Two stopping trains now, both scheduled to arrive at 7.12 pm. From South Lynn we have another Ivatt 4...

while from KX, the 5.00pm stopping service in handled, no doubt with ease, by Great Eastern.

[great northern]

Here is that very shiny A1 at journey's end.

But in complete contrast Platform 2 sees the arrival of  a very run down local B1 with the 6.20pm from Grantham.

[great northern]

On the Down slow we have a J6 returning the Holme pick up to New England.

while on the main Copley Hill A1 Aboyeur heads for home with the 6.10 KX-Leeds.

 

[great northern]

Aboyeur again, still from a slightly elevated position, which a lot of people seem to like, and with an experimental heavy crop for this location.

Soon afterwards 60148 is at rest, and we have a rear three quarter look an A1 for a change.

 

[great northern]

The J6 continues slowy along the slow.

While on the main Aboyeur is departing, and meets Grantham A3 Isinglass running straight through with the Heart of Midlothian

 

 

Not very successful, I think.

[great northern]

More on the same theme this morning, starting with another north looking shot of the passing expresses, this one, I think, from a more sensible angle.

then our man on the other side of the tracks gets the southbound view, and the J6 in shot too.

[great northern]

The same three locos, but from on the bridge

and now we concentrate on the Heart of Midlothian, as Isinglass carries on through.

 

[great northern]

The same three locos, but from on the bridge

and now we concentrate on the Heart of Midlothian, as Isinglass carries on through.