Peterborough North

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Podhunter said:

Have you looked at ModelU's range of figures?  Even at 1:76 scale, they have recognizable features, superior to white-metal cast people.

We took advantage of their scanning service to obtain figures of friends in their West Somerset Railway working outfits.

You could have Clive driving a bus over the bridge!

I have tried them but I wasn't convinced by the leaning poses that a lot of them have, and they didn't quite look to scale to me. Clive driving a bus? He is very accident prone, you know, always hurting himself, poor chap. Goodness knows what might happen.

[Oldddudders]

10 minutes ago, great northern said:

I have tried them but I wasn't convinced by the leaning poses that a lot of them have, and they didn't quite look to scale to me. Clive driving a bus? He is very accident prone, you know, always hurting himself, poor chap. Goodness knows what might happen.

A bus driving over Clive?

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, Podhunter said:

Have you looked at ModelU's range of figures?  Even at 1:76 scale, they have recognizable features, superior to white-metal cast people.

We took advantage of their scanning service to obtain figures of friends in their West Somerset Railway working outfits.

You could have Clive driving a bus over the bridge!

Wot??? I am that passenger who in the days of conductors sat the furthest away from the platform so the conductor had to come to me.

 

As for buses on bridges, this weekend I am playing trains with my part (but working) completed layout Pig Hill Diesel Locomotive Stabling Point at the,

Lincoln and District Model Railway Club's Exhibition

Fiskerton Village Hall

Ferry Rd,

Fiskerton,

Lincoln

LN3 4HW

 

Saturday 24th February 2024 and Sunday 25th February 2024

Doors open both Saturday and Sunday 10.00 till 15.00

Free car parking.

 

 

 

The theme of the show is Railways in Lincolnshire, so give my little loco depot a sense of location I have the appropriate buses for my bridge.....Gilbert says the green on the PD2 is too yellowy. I wouldn't know not being a yellow belly.

[great northern]

9 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

A bus driving over Clive?

Can't have that, it might damage the bus.😁

[great northern]

The much easier view of the Cleethorpes is next.

After a four minute rest, off it goes towards Cleethorpes.

[St Enodoc]

13 hours ago, great northern said:

Now we have the 6.45 pm KX-Cleethorpes on the way in. I don't know why, but I never manage to get this shot to my satisfaction. The abrupt end to the bridge has to be avoided, in my opinion anyway, and that leaves angles which never quite seem to work.

I think this is OK because the abrupt end to the bridge is hidden by the loco's chimney.

 

4 hours ago, great northern said:

After a four minute rest, off it goes towards Cleethorpes.

I don't like this one so much because the abrupt end to the bridge isn't hidden.

Edited February 22 by St Enodoc

[great northern]

It is one of the little peculiarities of PN that now and again we get a concentration on a single class of locomotives. At the moment, it is B1s, for as 61098 disappears to the north.....

Spital Bridge's 61204 arrives with a Leicester train.

 

[great northern]

12 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I think this is OK because the abrupt end to the bridge is hidden by the loco's chimney.

 

I don't like this one so much because the abrupt end to the bridge isn't hidden.

Interesting. I feel that the first one is a poor photo, and only marginally worth showing, even though the bridge is not a problem. The second one, however, I liked sufficiently that I felt its good points outweighed the fact that the end of the bridge could be seen. What is the general feeling about this?

[great northern]

A Class H originating at Letchworth brings another WD along the Down slow.

 61204 ten stes oof towards Leicester, and is seen from an angle that allows the Claud to be in shot yet again.

[Woodcock29]

10 hours ago, great northern said:

Interesting. I feel that the first one is a poor photo, and only marginally worth showing, even though the bridge is not a problem. The second one, however, I liked sufficiently that I felt its good points outweighed the fact that the end of the bridge could be seen. What is the general feeling about this?

The one where you can see the abrupt end of the bridge doesn't really bother me much as the sky is dominated by the signals which I like. The other shot where the B1's chimney hides the end of the bridge was never going to be as good because of the backlighting but then we've all had to take such shots in real life and we do so. Tbe front of the B1 is what captures me so its not all that bad.

Andrew

[AHW]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

A Class H originating at Letchworth brings another WD along the Down slow.

 61204 ten stes oof towards Leicester, and is seen from an angle that allows the Claud to be in shot yet again.

If you're phito shoopping your captions - your crapping is a little enthusiastic.......

[New Haven Neil]

The end of the bridge doesn't bother me, my brain (such as it is) is happy to accept the suspension of reality that is the necessary compromise of our modelling activity. I get more upset about shiny wheel rims and daft stuff like that!  Oh, Romford wheel nuts are another....maybe it's just me!

[St Enodoc]

11 hours ago, great northern said:

Interesting. I feel that the first one is a poor photo, and only marginally worth showing, even though the bridge is not a problem. The second one, however, I liked sufficiently that I felt its good points outweighed the fact that the end of the bridge could be seen. What is the general feeling about this?

Fair comment, Gilbert. I was responding specfically to your comment about the "abrupt end to the bridge" rather than the wider context.

[Grafarman]

I'm just happy to be here...!

Seriously though, I view each picture with a 'suspension of disbelief' that it is in fact a model railway with all its compromises/foibles, and enjoy watching the trains go by with the associated narratives and explanations... especially when there's some nice coaches to drool over admire...

 

David

[great northern]

One more shot of 61204, which will soon be crossing to Midland lines.

Then we have a train that many enthusiasts would have loved to travel on for the whole of its long, but very interesting, journey. This is a Dundee-KX service, which began its travels at 1145am. If on time, it passes here at 8.24pm. A notebook full of cops by the time you got here.

 

[great northern]

11 hours ago, AHW said:

If you're phito shoopping your captions - your crapping is a little enthusiastic.......

However did that get past quality control! I am well aware of the ability of my fingers to get ahead of my brain, and in particular to hit the key to the right of the one I am aiming at, so I always check before hitting submit reply. Not this time though, obviously. There were five corrections to this post, by the way.

[great northern]

60862 seems to have been one of 34A's pet V2s, as it was often photographed on express turns, and later was chosen to be one of the very few that received a double chimney.

 

as it approaches the platform, there is yet another opportunity to include the Claud.

Edited February 24 by great northern
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[New Haven Neil]

A Claud and a V2 together, lovely.  Two of my favourite classes.  You can keep your A3's, Galloping Sausages (A4's) and B17's, a V2 floats my boat!  A better balanced locomotive by far.

 

Your mileage may differ, other opinions are available. #ducks#

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

#ducks#

#Mallards#?

[great northern]

We are still in our B1 period. 61023 has the first Up New Clee fish.

Most conveniently, it then passes the Claud, which will get its chance to leave shortly.

[great northern]

11 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

A Claud and a V2 together, lovely.  Two of my favourite classes.  You can keep your A3's, Galloping Sausages (A4's) and B17's, a V2 floats my boat!  A better balanced locomotive by far.

 

Your mileage may differ, other opinions are available. #ducks#

Hmmmm. A very complex case this one. At times the patient shows definite and very encouraging signs of comprehension, but then, very swiftly, another outbreak of dementia occurs. Sad.

[New Haven Neil]

9 hours ago, great northern said:

Hmmmm. A very complex case this one. At times the patient shows definite and very encouraging signs of comprehension, but then, very swiftly, another outbreak of dementia occurs. Sad.

 

#peeks around corner# Oh, not banned from the topic then......

 

On a slightly serious note, there are not many locomotives I don't like in some way, but the V2 is right at the top of my list.  I also like A3's with double chimneys and Witte smoke deflectors (preferably with a GN tender too), so my slide into dementia is possibly confirmed also.  Given the medical disasters around here for us both this last few weeks, this does not surprise me!

Edited February 25 by New Haven Neil

[great northern]

5 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

#peeks around corner# Oh, not banned form the topic then......

 

On a slightly serious note, there are not many locomotives I don't like in some way, but the V2 is right at the top of my list.  I also like A3's with double chimneys and Witte smoke deflectors (preferably with a GN tender too), so my slide into dementia is possibly confirmed also.  Given the medical disasters around here for us both this last few weeks, this does not surprise me!

Sorry Neil, meant to be a joke, but in the circumstances not appropriate. I should have remembered your health problem.

[New Haven Neil]

6 minutes ago, great northern said:

Sorry Neil, meant to be a joke, but in the circumstances not appropriate. I should have remembered your health problem.

 

No need to worry on that front Gilbert, all in fun and taken as such.  Thankfully dementia is one thing that has not been diagnosed this month!

[great northern]

One more shot of this B1, but there will be more along shortly.

And finally it is the turn of the Claud to start on its journey. It occurs to me that it would probably come off at South Lynn, so this may be my excuse for its appearance. Kings Lynn is only a mile from there, and March D16s visited regularly, so that's how it came to get to Peterborough, East probably rather than North, and this is a way to get it back whence it came.