RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2021 Another optimistic shot, this time from the loading dock. The skeletal signal is exactly what is seen on prototypical photos taken from this side of the station. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2021 11 hours ago, Metropolitan H said: That is superb - especially as you don't see the west "fall off the cliff" end of Spital Bridge. Inerestingly, the offending signal is not there in my Father's pictures from the Down Platform in the late 1930s (pre-WW2, when grandfather was sitll at North Box).. Regards Chris H I always crop out the end of the bridge, if it is possible to do so, or if it isn't to hide it behind something. Unfortunately, it isn't always possible, and then it is a case of either binning an otherwise nice image, or putting up with it. The same applies when considering the signal. I can avoid it just by moving the camera further down the platform, but then I can't quite get the angle I want, and start getting things growing out of chimneys again. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2021 Here is another attempt to reproduce one of Tim's dad's photos. I've tried it before, but didn't have the right stock. The B17 was captured on 23/5/58, drawing ECS out of a carriage siding, almost certainly to form the afternoon departure to Harwich. I assume this shot would have been taken from the end of Platform 3, as I don't think trespass by a smallish boy would have been tolerated for long. I placed the camera where I got as near as possible to the original, and got this. It really isn't very close to the original, but given the compression and compromise at this end of the layout, perhaps that isn't surprising. The difference in the gap between the loco's cab and the signal is particularly noticeable. 32 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2021 Soon be time for the last passenger train on the E.Lincs to go on its way. Grimy Immingham B1 61143 waits for the clock to tick round to 8.57pm 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted November 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2021 Leave the signal in Gilbert. it increases the railway atmosphere as things were never really all that neat in these days with so many fixtures and platform "clutter" getting in the way for pristine photos. Eric 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 23, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2021 At Platform 6 a K1 stands with the parcels train which comes up from East at this time of evening. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 23, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2021 Yet another Immingham B1, with the second New Clee fish. How did this traffic disappear completely within about six years, when it still warranted two full trains in 1958? 29 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 The M1? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Head on B1 this morning. 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 11 hours ago, great northern said: Yet another Immingham B1, with the second New Clee fish. How did this traffic disappear completely within about six years, when it still warranted two full trains in 1958? Refrigerated HGV’s and Fish Processing Factories in Grimsby, at a guess? Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 11 hours ago, great northern said: Yet another Immingham B1, with the second New Clee fish. How did this traffic disappear completely within about six years, when it still warranted two full trains in 1958? When were the Cod Wars? Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Around 1973. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ITG Posted November 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2021 I’ve perused this thread (but without comment) for some time, as it’s particularly interesting as I live in Peterborough, and I had a passing interest as an 8-12 year old in train spotting, often from Peterborough station. It’s spooky sometimes to see the re-creations. As for the offending signal, tbh, I didn’t even spot it when I first viewed that photo. Which I guess is a vote for leave it in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted November 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Flying Fox 34F said: Refrigerated HGV’s and Fish Processing Factories in Grimsby, at a guess? Paul As you say. Processing as per customers' requirement. Those Lorries, the A1and M1 and the demise of Billingsgate as the main destination. In 1967 I had a lift in a Fish Truck from 'ull, passing Brizzle & going to Plymouth with North Sea catches. The Driver told me about the demise of the Fish Trains as the modern Lorry distribution system was far more flexible, especially for pre processed stuff for the developing Supermarkets. There were still some Fish Vans in Trains from various places but not the multi van Expresses of Gilbert's time. Funny thing was the the driver often passed Fish Trucks going the opposite way (going east) containing Cornish Ports' loads and Bay of Biscay Stuff as well as the Cornish Shell Fish and Crab loads for London. P Edited November 24, 2021 by Mallard60022 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted November 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, Flying Fox 34F said: Refrigerated HGV’s and Fish Processing Factories in Grimsby, at a guess? Paul Plus a fishing industry that was already in decline by the early 1960s Post WW2 British taste changed and we reduced our intake of oily fish for white fish, coupled with over fishing meant a change in what boats went to sea. Drifters disappeared during the late 50s and early 60s, as did the mackerel they caught. Small trawlers couldn't make the longer journeys needed to catch cod and haddock economically so trawlers became bigger, but only needed a couple more men to crew them. Bigger trawlers meant the fleet reduced and so did the number of crewmen. An early school project I was involved was British fishing, this would have been about 1970. Our group read all the books about the difference between drifters and trawlers only to find out very few drifters remained. The change to trawlers, and at that point they were only medium size to those operating by 1980, and the increased size of their catch. We identified that our school library and the text books were well out of date as fishing was an industry in decline. Our geography teacher was impress with our work and that took some doing. Edited November 24, 2021 by Clive Mortimore 11 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Time to get back to shiny green engines. Here is Quicksilver with the 7.30 FO KX- Aberdeen. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2021 Now a view in the gathering gloom under the roof. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2021 The fish is followed by the 6.08 Bradford-KX. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2021 Happy Knight isn't stopping, but if we stand at the far end of the platform it is going sufficiently slowly that we can get this shot. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2021 A Boston to East Class F brings an infrequent sighting of a K2, making its way along the Up slow. 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2021 This is as far as the K2 is going, for the moment. There must be something more important due on the main. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2021 Returning to the discussion about the views from Platform 3, and the intruding signal, i took some more views from different places, as below. Signal included, and a bit of an eyesore. So I then moved the camera just the other side of the signal, and we get this. and finally further along still, with this result. What do you think? 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 ^^^ I think I prefer the middle picture. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 G'Day Folks Love the pic of the K2, with the station in the immediate background. manna 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bill37 Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 Third shot for me. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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