Peterborough North

[gr.king]

32 minutes ago, great northern said:

Computer has been playing silly games again, I wondered why I hadn't taken a photo of the B17 leaving, and now I have found out. Apparently the thing randomly decided that 9 came after 11, and put the image right at the end of the page, where I failed to notice it.

 

Because it can, for whatever reason...

Just as when I upload a series of numbered images to certain websites and then wish to place them in-line in the relevant parts of some text, always finding that whilst the others are all in proper numerical order, the one that should be first is relegated to the end of the list! And it isn't a simple case of the first image being carelessly numbered "1" when it ought to be "01", it happens regardless of where the number series starts.

[great northern]

At 7.25 am, 60875 is on its way to London.

and ten minutes later, 60853 sets off towards Doncaster. Both will stop at a number of stations which will cease to cater for passengers very soon.

Whoops!  Forgot to photoshop this. Doesn't look too bad, I hope.

[great northern]

The first Leicester of the day arrives at Platform 6, a very easy job for a nearly new Standard 4.

Another familiar train approaches from the North. The 7.30 Grantham-KX, with one of that shed's less well kept A3s.

[great northern]

More of Victor Wild running in for just a three minute stop.

 

[great northern]

On the Down slow, a 9F with empties that left Ferme Park in the small hours in order to be out of the way before the mass exodus from KX begins. A close up of an impressive and handsome beast.

 

Then up on the bridge to see the A3 waiting and the 9F trudging along the slow. This is a bit ragged in parts, but it took three attempts to get it even this passable, and I wasn't prepared to have a fourth. I have to magnify this sort of image when shopping, so there are large areas which I can't see, and the sneaky thing will look for areas of similar colour and erase them as well. It only needs a very thin connecting line, sometimes almost imperceptible, and it shoots along like a kind of lightning strike and gleefully removes something it shouldn't. This, of course, does not become apparent until I reduce magnification and look at the whole image again. It can be somewhat irritating. 

[great northern]

The 9F has a clear run through, and will soon be safely in the yards and out of the way.

Victor Wild has also got under way, and is London bound.

[rowanj]

I;ve been saving this photo for 1st April. I promise it's not a spoof or photoshopped, Gilbert. 60005 being cleaned at 52A! Who would have believed it?

 

Edited March 31 by rowanj

[great northern]

1 minute ago, rowanj said:

I;ve been saving this photo for 1st April. I promose it's not a spoof or photoshopped, Gilbert. 60005 being cleaned at 52A! Who would have believed it?

 

I could say it wasn't very clean before they started, but I won't. All generalisations are somewhat dodgy, and I'm sure that not all Gateshead engines were always filthy, but once there is a reputation it tends to stick. I have certainly read that when 52A got more through workings to KX the locos were generally well turned out.

[great northern]

One 9F follows another along the Down slow. Past the box and under the bridge.....

and then along the straight and past Platform 6.

[Mallard60022]

Gilbert, I hear that you are selling up and Buying Lincoln City FC, ready for their Promotion to the Championship.

Congratulations dude, but will miss your layout and the jolly banter.

If you could spare a couple of those Tress I'm in.

A. Prilfool

 

[Mallard60022]

13 hours ago, rowanj said:

I;ve been saving this photo for 1st April. I promise it's not a spoof or photoshopped, Gilbert. 60005 being cleaned at 52A! Who would have believed it?

 

Prep for a United run to the smoke for a Cup Final.

Only reason.

P

[great northern]

18 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Gilbert, I hear that you are selling up and Buying Lincoln City FC, ready for their Promotion to the Championship.

Congratulations dude, but will miss your layout and the jolly banter.

If you could spare a couple of those Tress I'm in.

A. Prilfool

 

Unfortunately my offer of £37 nine shillings and sixpence was not considered to be acceptable, so its all off.

[great northern]

25 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Prep for a United run to the smoke for a Cup Final.

Only reason.

P

You may well be right. 1952 and 1955 they were there.

[rowanj]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

You may well be right. 1952 and 1955 they were there.

Come . come, chaps. AWS and double chimney mean the visits to Wembley were things of the past, and would be a long time before they returned, The date is March 1963, and it would be a United in red which held theCup aloft that year.

 

1 hour ago, great northern said:

You may well be right.

 

[great northern]

1 minute ago, rowanj said:

Come . come, chaps. AWS and double chimney mean the visits to Wembley were things of the past, and would be a long time before they returned, The date is March 1963, and it would be a United in red which held theCup aloft that year.

 

 

But 60005 was always a double chimney engine, wasn't it? I took that into account, but missed the AWS. Of course 1963 makes sense, as that would be why there was such a thick layer of grime to take off.

[30368]

What an amusing football/railway interlude! Wonderful!

 

30368

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Gilbert, I hear that you are selling up and Buying Lincoln City FC, ready for their Promotion to the Championship.

An IMPudent suggestion!

[great northern]

V2 heaven for some people, as another appears. This one is a Top Shed engine, and so much better kept than most you have seen so far. It has the 5.50 KX-Grantham, and is seen from on high, about to pass under the bridge.

and again, moments later and on its way into Platform 6.

[great northern]

8.19am at PN, and that 9F is waiting for the road.

I decided to leave this as the camera saw it, but would it have been better cropped?

 

The lovely shiny V2 is having a ten minute rest at Platform 6, and lurching from one extreme to the other, I reckon I over cropped it.

[jazzer]

On 31/03/2024 at 21:34, rowanj said:

I;ve been saving this photo for 1st April. I promise it's not a spoof or photoshopped, Gilbert. 60005 being cleaned at 52A! Who would have believed it?

 

Two cleaners balancing on the buffers with nothing to hold onto, and another precariously balanced on the running plate above the cylinder. The modern day Elf an Sayfdee ofificer would  be horrified at these clear breaches of the Work At Height Regulations, and would no doubt provide a proper trestle platform to stand on, with hand rails to prevent falls.

Still in the 1950’s the cleaners were still able to think for themselves and rely on common sense and care to stay safe ! 

[Dragonboy]

18 minutes ago, jazzer said:

Two cleaners balancing on the buffers with nothing to hold onto, and another precariously balanced on the running plate above the cylinder. The modern day Elf an Sayfdee ofificer would  be horrified at these clear breaches of the Work At Height Regulations, and would no doubt provide a proper trestle platform to stand on, with hand rails to prevent falls.

Still in the 1950’s the cleaners were still able to think for themselves and rely on common sense and care to stay safe ! 

And before the compensation culture had arrived. 

[RobAllen]

31 minutes ago, jazzer said:

Still in the 1950’s the cleaners were still able to think for themselves and rely on common sense and care to stay safe ! 

Nowadays is that we think that someone shouldn't lose an arm or die on the job because of a preventable mistake.

Different times.

[Phil Parker]

3 minutes ago, RobAllen said:

Nowadays is that we think that someone shouldn't lose an arm or die on the job because of a preventable mistake.

Different times.

 

Spot on. I tend to ask people, "How many of your children are you willing to sacrifice so their boss can make more money?"

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, Phil Parker said:

 

Spot on. I tend to ask people, "How many of your children are you willing to sacrifice so their boss can make more money?"

And that fits perfectly with something I have quoted before. Circa 1990, the man from Dupont was making his first visit to BRB. He walked into the Chairman's office with the words "Good morning Chairman - how many staff have you killed today?" Culture change did come about. If the pendulum seemed to sometimes swing too far, well that was to be expected. 

[great northern]

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

And that fits perfectly with something I have quoted before. Circa 1990, the man from Dupont was making his first visit to BRB. He walked into the Chairman's office with the words "Good morning Chairman - how many staff have you killed today?" Culture change did come about. If the pendulum seemed to sometimes swing too far, well that was to be expected. 

That's the problem, I think. There is always over compensation before things settle down. It is very difficult to start from a low and to stop at just the right point.