Peterborough North

[Welly]

M&GN for me as well!

[great northern]

Good morning all. Rather murky here again at the moment, so I shall spend some time considering suggestions for polls after I have done the morning images. The first of those shows the 9.55 Up Newcastle, arriving behind Sir Murrough Wilson. My Gateshead locos can only acquire dirt when Tim applies it, but they make up for that by collecting dust more than any others. 60002 had done that again, and again I forgot to remove it. I did straighten that lamp, at least I thought I had.

 

 

These deficiencies are not as obvious in a long range shot under the roof.

 

 

[CUTLER2579]

Just to be different the Gn & M for me as well.

[great northern]

Clear poll winner is the Midland and Great Northern, bit there were a number of other suggestions. Perhaps the geographical area could have been a bit narrower, as there were so many lovely routes to choose from.

 

Today is definitely narrower, though still plenty of choices. Taking the same area, which is/was the most attractive and characterful branch line to the seaside?

[St Enodoc]

The Southwold Railway.

[FarrMan]

As Whittlesea used to be called Whittle-on-Sea, does that count?

 

Lloyd

[stewartingram]

As my layout is based upon it, the Hunstanton branch.

 

Stewart

 

Though there are others...........

[JamieR4489]

Melton Constable - Cromer Beach, nowadays partly preserved as the North Norfolk Railway and the Bittern Line.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, FarrMan said:

As Whittlesea used to be called Whittle-on-Sea, does that count?

 

Lloyd

It counts as a nice try.

[great northern]

A plonk with your tea.

 

 

It will be bedded in, honest.

[The Pilotman]

The Newquay branch; scenic diversity, operationally interesting and lovely beaches at the end. 

[great northern]

No hiding the dust and wobbly lamp when 60002 is seen this close up.

 

 

 

The image police have pronounced this to be seriously deficient, and ordered that you should have an extra photo to go with your tea, so heris another plonk.

 

 

[mullie]

Weymouth to Easton, a branch that left England!

[Clive Mortimore]

Does Maldon count as a seaside place, if so the Maldon branch from Witham.

 

If not the Southend Branch from Shenfield.

[mullie]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Does Maldon count as a seaside place, if so the Maldon branch from Witham.

 

If not the Southend Branch from Shenfield.

I've mainly seen mud at Southend not the sea and it is at the mouth of the Thames. The sea seems to be round the corner beyond even more mud. Does it even count?

[Clive Mortimore]

7 minutes ago, mullie said:

I've mainly seen mud at Southend not the sea and it is at the mouth of the Thames. The sea seems to be round the corner beyond even more mud. Does it even count?

Maldon has more mud.

 

 

[great northern]

Well, there's a first! In all these 10,000+ pages, I don't think we have ever discussed mud, or the lack of it. A mud poll perhaps? Or perhaps not.

 

We will though have a Colwick to KX Goods passing through. Vans, opens and pipes and tubes is the load. I'm wondering if a Colwick engine would have taken this all the way to London, rather than coming off at New England. Anyway, that's what happened on this day, though it is a Lincoln K3 in charge.

 

 

Then we have another plonk.

 

 

Edited June 16, 2020 by great northern
Can't count

[mullie]

4 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Maldon has more mud.

 

 

Do like Maldon, famous for its battle in 991 AD, sea salt, mooring place for Thames barges, two branchlines  and being not far from Tiptree, home of the Wilkins jam factory and where the Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway passed through.

 

Martyn

[manna]

5 hours ago, mullie said:

I've mainly seen mud at Southend not the sea and it is at the mouth of the Thames. The sea seems to be round the corner beyond even more mud. Does it even count?

G'Day Folks

 

Drove along the seafront one night during a storm and the waves were coming over the roadway, car was covered in seawater.

 

manna (Ex Southend resident)

[great northern]

More plonks this morning, as I'm a bit behind with processing.  A forecourt view towards Station Road.

 

 

and two gentlemen deep in conversation.

 

 

[great northern]

I think we will abandon this poll, as it attracts little interest. There was as much about mud as there were suggestions about branch lines. Only four nominations, all different.

 

One suggestion was that we should discuss Titled Train Names, so I'll try that, and we'll start with pre war names, looking for the best and most evocative. Or have you just had enough of polls altogether?

[CUTLER2579]

"Flying Scotsman"

[westerner]

The "Cheltenham Spa Express" or "Cheltenham Flier" as it was nicknamed due to its world record timing between Swindon and Paddington.

[Oldddudders]

The Atlantic Coast Express, a name coined by an employee - who I believe later lost his life in an accident - did attempt to do what it said on the tin. But by the time it got anywhere near the Atlantic it was on single-track branches of essentially gentle speed. If only the present incumbent ran trains fast from Waterloo to Salisbury and then fast to Exeter, though............

[Market65]

The Coronation. 
 

Rob.