Peterborough North

[YorkSouth]

On 23/02/2024 at 08:57, great northern said:

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.....

This is one of the best photos I have seen of a model railway loco and in a superb setting.  The oily sheen on 61098 takes me back to some of my best, but vaguest, memories.  Thank you.

[great northern]

You didn't think the Claud was going to be allowed to disappear without  a couple more photos, did you?

 

It really is such a lovely sight. The British 4.4.0 in general, not just LNER types, must surely be the finest flowering of our loco design?

[thegreenhowards]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

 

 

It really is such a lovely sight. The British 4.4.0 in general, not just LNER types, must surely be the finest flowering of our loco design?

I’m afraid I’m in agreement with NHN, the V2 is perfect is every respect. D16s are quite cute and 4-4-0s in general are more interesting than 4-6-0s, but they look a bit ‘fuddy duddy’ to me. The V2 looks well proportioned, purposeful and graceful. The best locos….. until Deltic came along!

[great northern]

Time for more coal to head for London. Class F, so 9F haulage, and if all goes to plan it will be at Ferme Park considerably quicker than a WD.

I've had an idea as to how to deal with the end of the bridge, but you will only find out what it is should it prove to be successful.

 

 

Not only has it been allowed through on the main, but the distant is off too. This late on into the evening, there is a thirteen minute margin before the next Up train is due.

 

[great northern]

Here's the next B1. One of our own, returning with the 5.52 from KX, which has split at Hitchin, the remainder of the train proceeding to Cambridge. The HMRS survey shows 61282 working this round trip almost every day.

On the Up, one of the last daytime expresses. The 5.05 from Newcastle brings KX A3 Robert the Devil.

[great northern]

On goes Robert the Devil. What he did to be so categorised, I do not know.

 

He isn't stopping here, and now passes the nice lady on one side, and the B1 on the other.

[Grafarman]

According to the Intraweb, Robert the Devil was a figure in medieval legend, being the son of a Duke of Normandy, born in response to an entreaty to the Devil.

Robert 1 Duke of Normandy, Father of William the Conqueror, is often referred to as being the person in question, although this is probably due to later writings mischievously confusing the two characters.

A racehorse was named 'Robert the Devil' referring back to the legend; and 60110 was named after the racehorse...apparently...

 

David

Edited February 28 by Grafarman
grammar

[jwealleans]

14 hours ago, great northern said:

What he did to be so categorised, I do not know.

 

Robert 1, Duke of Normandy 1027-35.  He was known as 'the Magnificent' and 'the Generous' in his lifetime and the 'Devil' soubriquet seems to have been the work of later writers and chroniclers, possibly by conflation with legend as suggested above.  Or possibly as soon as he was unable to seek vengeance on whomever applied it, given the family tendency to violence which he seems to have inherited. 

[great northern]

Robert again. I think it is a safe asumption that it was named after the racehorse that won the St Leger in 1880, given that almost the whole class had names from that source. I do remember reading that the workforce in the Crimpsall believed it was named after one of their superiors, who apparently was very bad tempered.

At Platform 6, that parcels train from East has arrived. It isn't heavily loaded this evening, so a J15 was given the job.

[jwealleans]

7 minutes ago, great northern said:

I do remember reading that the workforce in the Crimpsall believed it was named after one of their superiors, who apparently was very bad tempered.

 

Would that have been R. A. (Bobby) Thom?   I have a vague recollection of reading that about him.

[great northern]

22 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

 

Would that have been R. A. (Bobby) Thom?   I have a vague recollection of reading that about him.

That's the man. At the moment I can't remember where I read about him either.

[LNER4479]

45 minutes ago, great northern said:

Robert again. I think it is a safe asumption that it was named after the racehorse that won the St Leger in 1880, given that almost the whole class had names from that source. 

 

 

Whatever ...

 

He certainly looks 'magnificent' in original garb (TW pic)

 

It's me 😄

Edited February 28 by LNER4479

[St Enodoc]

1 minute ago, LNER4479 said:

 

Whatever ... he certainly looks 'magnificent' in original garb (TW pic):

 

It's me 😄

I wondered when you'd pop up...

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Whatever ...

 

 

He certainly looks 'magnificent' in original garb (TW pic)

As I'm sure he did when I stood alongside him at KX 60+ years ago. 

[Mallard60022]

2 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

 

 

Whatever ...

 

He certainly looks 'magnificent' in original garb (TW pic)

 

It's me 😄

Nice Pannier(s)

[great northern]

25 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Nice Pannier(s)

Oh dear. Obviously you are having trouble with your PC and your keyboard again Phil. I'm sure you intended to say "nicer than", and forgot to put Much at the start. I'm a bit puzzled though as to why you would wish to state the obvious anyway. Is there a stirring emoji? I can't see one.

[great northern]

Now we have some experiments, which didn't really come off. This angle on the J15 was prompted by stuff on the right hand side which I did not fancy photoshopping.

My thanks to the camera for showing up every hair and speck of dust on the loco.

 

Then we have the early evening York parcels with Edward Thompson relegated to the slow, as something more important is not far behind.

I know now that I shouldn't show that little backscene this close up.

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

Now we have some experiments, which didn't really come off. This angle on the J15 was prompted by stuff on the right hand side which I did not fancy photoshopping.

My thanks to the camera for showing up every hair and speck of dust on the loco.

 

The GER did do some cute N-gins.

[great northern]

A different angle on 60500 heading under Crescent Bridge.

Worth a try, but not worth repeating, is my assessment.

 

Not long afterwards Edward passes the J15, but of course will not be getting much further.

[great northern]

10 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

The GER did do some cute N-gins.

Encouraging signs of progress there, keep it up!

[great northern]

Edward waiting. This is not very good, and might normally have been binned, but the sun has not been cooperative for a few days now, so i can't afford to deplete the image store too much.

Now comes the FO Aberdeen sleeper leaving the Cross at 7.30pm. and with Silver Link in charge today.

[Nick Lawson]

On 28/02/2024 at 09:46, great northern said:

On 28/02/2024 at 09:23, jwealleans said:

 

Would that have been R. A. (Bobby) Thom?   I have a vague recollection of reading that about him.

That's the man. At the moment I can't remember where I read about him either.

O.S. Nock ("LNER Steam") describes him as " a most vivid and forceful speaker always bubbling over with ideas and opinions". On one occasion "Gresley rose from his chair and brought his fist down with a resounding crash on the table with the words: 'damn it all Thom will you shut up, and let me get a word in edgeways!' ".

[great northern]

On goes Silver Link, just as graceful from this angle.

Gone 8.40pm on an August evening, so the light would be starting to go. Given the lack of light at this time of year, I've tried to turn that to my advantage with some of these shots.

 

This is the only sleeping car train we get to see, so I thought you might like another look at the two Thompson cars that Andy, The GreenHowards, very kindly made for me.

I tries a plain blue sky as an experiment. It needed a lot of desaturating to get it anything like respectable, and I just find it too bland, but your opinion would be welcome.

[thegreenhowards]

20 minutes ago, great northern said:

On goes Silver Link, just as graceful from this angle.

Gone 8.40pm on an August evening, so the light would be starting to go. Given the lack of light at this time of year, I've tried to turn that to my advantage with some of these shots.

 

This is the only sleeping car train we get to see, so I thought you might like another look at the two Thompson cars that Andy, The GreenHowards, very kindly made for me.

I tries a plain blue sky as an experiment. It needed a lot of desaturating to get it anything like respectable, and I just find it too bland, but your opinion would be welcome.

Thanks for the photo. It always gives me a buzz to see something I built running round PN.

[31A]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

I just find it too bland, but your opinion would be welcome.

 

The real sky is like that sometimes, but I think I prefer the one in the first picture, with the clouds.