Peterborough North

[great northern]

Still dank and drizzly, so I can't take any photos. However, I did take some of the Gresley stock behind 61657, as I can often now put trains like this together with good quality stock.

 

 

Lovely, but I still need some more.

 

 

 

[JamieR4489]

Tuxford North for me. ‘Cos I’m modelling it.

[great northern]

Another shot of nothing happening. Similar to the previous one, but a different angle.

 

 

[LNER4479]

6 hours ago, great northern said:

 

Moving a little further to the West, today we will look at country junction stations in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, including the Peak District. Nottinghamshire again as it didn't get a look in yesterday.

How about Parsley Hay?

(picture from Wikipedia site)

 

Situated on the LNWR Buxton-Ashbourne-Uttoxeter route, Parsley Hay was the junction for the northern end of the legendary Cromford & High Peak railway (note the junction signal beyond the station) with its famous rope-hauled inclines and which incredibly hung on to life until 1967. Today, the site of Parsley Hay station is a cycle hire base from which the two routes can be explored as the Tissington Trail and the High Peak Trail.

 

[LNER4479]

4 hours ago, great northern said:

... I did take some of the Gresley stock behind 61657, as I can often now put trains like this together with good quality stock.

 

Lovely, but I still need some more.

 

Are those some of the brass sides-stuck-onto-Hornby donors jobbies, Gilbert?

[great northern]

1 minute ago, LNER4479 said:

Are those some of the brass sides-stuck-onto-Hornby donors jobbies, Gilbert?

What a good question. I think the answer is some of them. The 3 compartment BSK and the CK are kit/scratch built by Ian Willets using MJT sides and parts, but the other three are indeed improved Hornby.

[mullie]

5 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

We seem to have more than our normal numbers this year. We do live on marshland.

We have more tourists than usual!

 

Martyn

[thegreenhowards]

7 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

We seem to have more than our normal numbers this year. We do live on marshland.

Ours live by the pond In the front garden. We left the doors open for air on Wed evening and he must have hopped in then unnoticed and spent the night in the dining room. He had left a ‘deposit’ on Thursday morning which my wife noticed before the frog!

[great northern]

It is now time for Deltic to disturb the peace, and here it comes.

 

 

The big loud blue thing is always popular, so here it is again, rumbling away at Platform 3 before making its way to Doncaster.

 

 

 

 

 

[St Enodoc]

9 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

How about Parsley Hay?

(picture from Wikipedia site)

 

Situated on the LNWR Buxton-Ashbourne-Uttoxeter route, Parsley Hay was the junction for the northern end of the legendary Cromford & High Peak railway (note the junction signal beyond the station) with its famous rope-hauled inclines and which incredibly hung on to life until 1967. Today, the site of Parsley Hay station is a cycle hire base from which the two routes can be explored as the Tissington Trail and the High Peak Trail.

 

http://www.lymmobservatory.net/railways/sbdiagrams/parsley_hay_q95.jpg

Edited August 17, 2020 by St Enodoc
Direct link added

[great northern]

Another grey day, but surely it can't be as bad as yesterday?  Fish empties on their way to Hull feature this morning, with KX B1 61200 doing the job as usual. These shots were taken from as near as I could get to the platform on the bracket signal at the end of Platform 6.

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

You're either tired of polls, or Notts and Derbys just don't float your boat. Only 7 votes, and all for different locations. today, let's try the West Midlands. Very industrial, but there were some country branches to be found. Anywhere between Banbury in the South to Manchester in the North, and across to the Welsh border.  I know that isn't all classified as West Midlands, but who cares.

[FarrMan]

Let's try Henley in Arden for this one.

 

Lloyd

[Metropolitan H]

I'll try Market Drayton this time.

 

I'm beginning to wonder whether this is getting a bit like the "Mornington Crescent" game from Radio 4's - "I'm sorry I haven't a clue", but without a target destination? - Keep it going.

 

Regards

Chris H

[FarrMan]

1 minute ago, Metropolitan H said:

I'll try Market Drayton this time.

 

I'm beginning to wonder whether this is getting a bit like the "Mornington Crescent" game from Radio 4's - "I'm sorry I haven't a clue", but without a target destination? - Keep it going.

 

Regards

Chris H

Suggestion for next poll - most popular tube stations, whether in radio programs or not?

 

Lloyd

[David Bell]

I will go with Old Hill

[Metropolitan H]

Would that be "Deep Tube", the "Tube" gauge lines as a whole or the whole London Underground including the Sub-Surface Lines - and do we include the Epping - Ongar line?

 

Regards

Chris H (Tongue firmly in Cheek!).

[FarrMan]

13 minutes ago, Metropolitan H said:

Would that be "Deep Tube", the "Tube" gauge lines as a whole or the whole London Underground including the Sub-Surface Lines - and do we include the Epping - Ongar line?

 

Regards

Chris H (Tongue firmly in Cheek!).

i (thankfully) don't make the rules.

 

Lloyd

[St Enodoc]

Hatton, again.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Birmingham New St................it's on a branch !!!

 

manna

[Clive Mortimore]

I am going to go with Hatton.

 

 

 

I don't have a clue where it is (can can find out) but it will hopefully give a clear winner with two votes this time.

[Oldddudders]

Just now, Clive Mortimore said:

I am going to go with Hatton.

 

 

 

I don't have a clue where it is (can can find out) but it will hopefully give a clear winner with two votes this time.

Are you banking on that, Clive?

[St Enodoc]

2 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I don't have a clue where it is

It's on the GWR.

[Clive Mortimore]

7 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Are you banking on that, Clive?

No but I can dream that one day I will be on the winning team.

[LNER4479]

4 hours ago, great northern said:

Today, let's try the West Midlands. Very industrial, but there were some country branches to be found. Anywhere between Banbury in the South to Manchester in the North, and across to the Welsh border.  I know that isn't all classified as West Midlands, but who cares.

A pretty liberal interpretation of 'West Midlands' Gilbert but as 'bucolic Black Country' is a bit of an oxymoron, I can see where you're coming from.

 

How about BEWDLEY? Obviously very well-known these days but once a four-way junction with branches to Stourport and perhaps the more country-ish route towards Cleobury Mortimer and Tenbury Wells, which crossed the river Severn outside Bewdley via the Dowles bridge, the remains (piers) of which can still be seen from today's SVR trains.

 

Or, as an alternative within your broad area (I think - it's certainly in Staffordshire, rather than yesterday's Derbyshire), how about WATERHOUSES, which could be regarded as an end-on junction with the delightful narrow gauge Leek and Manifold Railway.

 

A great old railway to explore via the cycle path now along its route, the L&M was built to the standard loading gauge and used transporter wagons to reduce the double-handling of goods, some of its intermediate stations having short lengths of standard gauge onto which such vehicles could be unloaded. One such vehicle is seen loaded up poking out of the distinctive station canopy in this view.

 

Now there's a modelling challenge!

 

 

 

Edited August 17, 2020 by LNER4479