Peterborough North

[great northern]

11 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Night time is certainly a fascinating - and very different - aspect of railway operations, for exactly the reasons you mention. I would either add to or clarify your description of 'general goods' by stating that a lot of the time-sensitive goods traffic ran in the small hours as 'express goods', making best use of the paths freed up by the absence of those pesky passenger trains, thus serving the 'next day' delivery promise for a lot of that traffic.

 

I'm certainly planning to have a crack at night time running on my 'layout of a lifetime' for all these reasons. I'm possibly influenced by the way my Dad has alway run his layouts to a 24 hour timetable. His approach included installing working station and yard lamps - with a torch to hand 'just in case', we'd switch off the main lights and genuinely run in the dark. Very atmospheric ... until there was an occasional 'crunch' and we'd stick the lights back on to see what had gone wrong!

Sounds interesting Graham, but given how I can mess things up in broad daylight, I shudder to think of the mayhem I could cause in the dark. I suppose the positive side though would be that no-one would be able to see the results. I would also need a lot more sleeping cars.

[great northern]

4 hours ago, jwealleans said:

 

This one, Terry?    One of the steel twins built 1935-6 (and more a little later) for GNML working.  They originally ran in sets, two of these and a compo between.   I think the sets were broken up during the War.   Southern Pride and RDEB do the two different diagrams.

 

 

Plenty of sets still intact in the late 50s Jonathan, in fact most of the KX-Peterborough slows had them as their core. Photographs show that there were still sets operating on the E. Lincs too. There were split twins in some of the other local formations too though.

[great northern]

First signs of movement now, as the Glasgow-Colchester rolls in behind Gateshead A2/3 Tehran.

 

 

[manna]

15 hours ago, jwealleans said:

 

This one, Terry?    One of the steel twins built 1935-6 (and more a little later) for GNML working.  They originally ran in sets, two of these and a compo between.   I think the sets were broken up during the War.   Southern Pride and RDEB do the two different diagrams.

 

 

 

10 hours ago, great northern said:

Plenty of sets still intact in the late 50s Jonathan, in fact most of the KX-Peterborough slows had them as their core. Photographs show that there were still sets operating on the E. Lincs too. There were split twins in some of the other local formations too though.

G'Day Folks

 

Yep, that's them,  quite a nice looking pair, and at least a pre war set. Thank you.

 

manna

[great northern]

Job done for Tehran, and the fireman will now be uncoupling.

 

 

[landscapes]

4 minutes ago, great northern said:

Job done for Tehran, and the fireman will now be uncoupling.

 

 

Morning Gilbert

 

That A2/3 looks stunning.

 

Regards

 

David

 

 

[great northern]

Tehran is now on its way to New England.

 

 

and Brancepeth Castle has replaced it at the head of the train.

 

 

And I seem to have succumbed to a sudden attack of locoholism.

[Oldddudders]

Might Tehran have needed a lamp?

[great northern]

48 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Might Tehran have needed a lamp?

Yes, of course it did. I just forget these things, I'm afraid. Senior moments abound. This morning I went to clean my teeth, and tried to think of two things at the same time. I found myself holding a tube of Ibuprofen gel, top off, and about to get put on the toothbrush. Fortunately, though the two tubes looked and felt similar, the contents did not.

[great northern]

Brancepeth Castle has left, leaving Platform 2 free, so that V2 60875 can bring in the stock for the 7.25 slow to KX.

 

 

[St Enodoc]

1 minute ago, great northern said:

Yes, of course it did. I just forget these things, I'm afraid. Senior moments abound. This morning I went to clean my teeth, and tried to think of two things at the same time. I found myself holding a tube of Ibuprofen gel, top off, and about to get put on the toothbrush. Fortunately, though the two tubes looked and felt similar, the contents did not.

Could've been worse.

 

There was a fellow who got his toothpaste and his haemorrhoid cream mixed up.

 

All his teeth fell out and he had a ring of confidence.

 

I thank you.

[LNER4479]

The version I heard was mixing up toothpaste and putty ... and all his windows falling out. The old 'uns are the best.

 

Back to the trains ...

[31A]

24 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Could've been worse.

 

There was a fellow who got his toothpaste and his haemorrhoid cream mixed up.

 

All his teeth fell out and he had a ring of confidence.

 

I thank you.

 

I had to buy some toothpaste in a chemists in Germany once.  Not being used to the German words for such things I ended up with a tube of denture adhesive.  It didn't do my teeth much good!

 

[great northern]

V2 has gone south, and ten minutes later it is the turn of the B1 to head north to Doncaster.

 

 

When I run this train, I always experience a feeling of sadness, as it will soon be withdrawn, and several counry stations closed. The end of over a century of service and history.

[great northern]

A pause on the Up now, before the morning locals start to arrive. As usual, any free path is used to get more coal on the way to London.

 

 

[FarrMan]

On 13/12/2021 at 09:33, great northern said:

Yes, of course it did. I just forget these things, I'm afraid. Senior moments abound. This morning I went to clean my teeth, and tried to think of two things at the same time. I found myself holding a tube of Ibuprofen gel, top off, and about to get put on the toothbrush. Fortunately, though the two tubes looked and felt similar, the contents did not.

Several years ago, I had a strange dream. I was cleaning my teeth with a cut throat razor, when I realized that something was wrong - I had not used any toothpaste.

 

No wonder my students thought me totally mad.

 

Lloyd

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, FarrMan said:

Several years ago, I had a strange dream. I was cleaning my teeth with a cut throat razor, when I realized that something was wrong - I had not used any toothpaste.

 

No wonder my students thought me totally mad.

 

Lloyd

I bet you were spitting blood after that.

[FarrMan]

16 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

I bet you were spitting blood after that.

No. Just rather confused. I am glad I am not a psychiatrist.

 

Lloyd

[great northern]

The first Leicester local of our new day, and it is entrusted to 3F power. Mind you, the schedule is not exacting.

 

 

[great northern]

WD gone, the noises only they could make have faded into the distance, and now we have a well cleaned Grantham A3, bringng in the 7.30 from its home town to KX.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Can't keep WDs out of the picture for long though, as one drags empties along the Down slow while 60065 waits for the off.

 

 

[great northern]

We can't let a lovely clean A3 go by without a close up, can we?

 

 

[great northern]

When the A3 leaves, it is time for more coal, but this time an 02 gives some variety.

 

 

[great northern]

The 02 has also cleared section now, so the signalman can allow a tender first J6 to come off the engine road, and run down to south yard for a shunting shift.

 

 

[great northern]

Another A3, with an easy job this time, the 5.50 KX-Grantham stopper.

 

 

For some reason, this job was diagrammed for a Doncaster engine.

 

It is a most unusual shot for me to put on here, as it was taken under artificial light. I usually hate what the camera's white fluorescent setting gives me, but for some reason this one looks quite presentable. I've no idea why.

 

We shall also look at what is behind the tender, which won't take long.

 

 

 

 

Any excuse for showing these lovely Gresley coaches. Behind them, something more prosaic.

 

 

 

 

And a horsebox, we don't get many of those.