Peterborough North

[St Enodoc]

11 hours ago, great northern said:

When we arrived, there he sat with his butter wouldn't melt expression, but denied any wrongdoing. He only had one bus, he said, which was in his pocket.

Only one bus but how many diesels?

[great northern]

Some sunshine is forecast for this morning, so hopefully rationing can cease. Still only one image now though. 61142 is working the 8.59 Grimsby-KX, another train that we see every day of the week. Things will soon start to change though.

[Clive Mortimore]

6 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Only one bus but how many diesels?

I was a good boy yesterday.

[St Enodoc]

28 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I was a good boy yesterday.

Are you unwell?

[Ollie K]

This just popped up in my YouTube recommendations feed. Clearly intended as an advert for Hornby's new smoke-equipped P2, but for me the star of the show was a good look around PN on video!

 

 

Wot 20mph permanent speed restriction?

[great northern]

Clive may polish his halo, as I have discovered neither buses or diesels where they should not be. That's the good news.

 

However.....☹️  the sun shone, I went up to run trains and found that all the macros that Timara did on Wednesday are now empty. I tried to reprogramme some, and got all kinds of strange happenings. It seems likely that the new Power Pro is faulty. I am not sure what I have done to deserve this. TMC are sending me another one, as by great good fortune they have not sold out completely, and Timara is coming again on Tuesday to hopefully get things put right. It does mean though that there will almost certainly be a day or two when I have nothing to show you. If all else fails we can reinstate the old unit, and I will have to put up with the occasional glitch.

[great northern]

3 minutes ago, Ollie K said:

This just popped up in my YouTube recommendations feed. Clearly intended as an advert for Hornby's new smoke-equipped P2, but for me the star of the show was a good look around PN on video!

 

 

Wot 20mph permanent speed restriction?

Good, innit?  As to the PSR, just one of the delightful oddities of PN. Severe dog's leg curves at both ends, so everything on the ECML had to slow to a crawl.

[jazzer]

On 09/04/2024 at 08:19, great northern said:

Little light yesterday, but I opened all the blinds and hoped for the best. As soon as I did that a weak sun appeared, enough to make some parts very light, but also to make walls and corners very dark. I did my best.

 

Here is D11 Marne with the early stopper from Grimsby. Immingham had lots of B1s, but even so I bet it was hard pressed to find enough on a Saturday, given all the extras both on the E.Lincs and the old GC main line to Sheffield and Manchester. Marne was a Sheffield Darnall engine by this time, and has been borrowed during a lie over having arrived from there.

I am having work done today which entails the unplugging of all my electrical stuff downstairs. I am assured all will be well when it is plugged back in again, but looking at the mass of wires involved I'm not entirely confident. If you don't hear from me for a while, you will know why.

In The Colour of Steam - East  Coast Mainline by Kieth Pirt there is a beautiful picture of62668 Jutland pressed into service on a Sunday morning in May 1959 on a Lincoln to Sheffield train.What makes it particularly interesting is that Jutland was just  out after winter storage at Darnal which I suppose is good enough to be a near- prototypical example for your excellent picture of Marne.

D11’s seem to have been pressed into service on football supporters excursions to Wadsley Bridge ( Hillsborough) when Sheffield Wednesday were at home on alternate Saturdays  in the late ‘50’s, I suppose it was more than plausible they would be seen on other trains in busy periods in the Summer season.

[great northern]

The last image I have on file is of 61142 passing North box.

However, I have a couple more that have not been processed yet, and I have thought of a way to get some more.It will be a slow process, but I think it can be done, if I am prepared to enter every single point number manually for every movement.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, jazzer said:

In The Colour of Steam - East  Coast Mainline by Kieth Pirt there is a beautiful picture of62668 Jutland pressed into service on a Sunday morning in May 1959 on a Lincoln to Sheffield train.What makes it particularly interesting is that Jutland was just  out after winter storage at Darnal which I suppose is good enough to be a near- prototypical example for your excellent picture of Marne.

D11’s seem to have been pressed into service on football supporters excursions to Wadsley Bridge ( Hillsborough) when Sheffield Wednesday were at home on alternate Saturdays  in the late ‘50’s, I suppose it was more than plausible they would be seen on other trains in busy periods in the Summer season.

I visited Retford in 1958 soon after the D11s which had been stored at Trafford Park were dusted down and allocated to Darnall. We saw just about all of them that same day, plus some of the familiar ones. They were on Manchester- Cleethorpes and Sheffield- Cleethorpes duties. At the end of the summer timetable they disappeared, and we thought we'd seen the last of them. But in the summer of 59 nearly all of them were back at work on the same duties. That really was the last hurrah though.

[St Enodoc]

13 hours ago, great northern said:

Clive may polish his halo, as I have discovered neither buses or diesels where they should not be. That's the good news.

 

However.....☹️  the sun shone, I went up to run trains and found that all the macros that Timara did on Wednesday are now empty. I tried to reprogramme some, and got all kinds of strange happenings. It seems likely that the new Power Pro is faulty. I am not sure what I have done to deserve this. TMC are sending me another one, as by great good fortune they have not sold out completely, and Timara is coming again on Tuesday to hopefully get things put right. It does mean though that there will almost certainly be a day or two when I have nothing to show you. If all else fails we can reinstate the old unit, and I will have to put up with the occasional glitch.

This might be a really stupid comment (and I do not intend to cast nasturtiums on TMC) but before you/Timara set up the macros again, make sure that the command station has a nice new battery, that has had any protective film removed, in it.

[great northern]

Found some plonks I don't seem to have published, so here are a couple.

 

[great northern]

7 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

This might be a really stupid comment (and I do not intend to cast nasturtiums on TMC) but before you/Timara set up the macros again, make sure that the command station has a nice new battery, that has had any protective film removed, in it.

I hadn't thought of that one John, but I had considered a faulty EPROM, as memory seems to be the problem. I doubt TMC will have looked inside the unit, so it will be a manufacturer error, if there is one. My lawyering memory tells me not to touch anything as it might invalidate the warranty. There is a replacement on the way, and I will be sending this one back as it arrived, which I think is the best course of action.

 

I do not want to think about the new one giving the same problem, which may mean a gremlin somewhere else in the system, though I really can't think what that might be.

[Clive Mortimore]

Gilbert you wouldn't have these problems if you were to use good old fashioned Luddite DC.

 

You would catch me operating a layout with the extra "C"

 

[St Enodoc]

26 minutes ago, great northern said:

I hadn't thought of that one John, but I had considered a faulty EPROM, as memory seems to be the problem. I doubt TMC will have looked inside the unit, so it will be a manufacturer error, if there is one. My lawyering memory tells me not to touch anything as it might invalidate the warranty. There is a replacement on the way, and I will be sending this one back as it arrived, which I think is the best course of action.

 

I do not want to think about the new one giving the same problem, which may mean a gremlin somewhere else in the system, though I really can't think what that might be.

The Power Pro relies on the battery to sustain the memory when mains power is absent. If it had been on the shelf a while the battery might have gone flat.

[great northern]

46 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Gilbert you wouldn't have these problems if you were to use good old fashioned Luddite DC.

 

You would catch me operating a layout with the extra "C"

 

I haven't forgotten your problems with the written word Clive, but I can't resist pointing out that you have actually said that you "would catch me operating a layout with the extra C". That's good, because it may mean that you are beginning to see the light.

[great northern]

50 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

The Power Pro relies on the battery to sustain the memory when mains power is absent. If it had been on the shelf a while the battery might have gone flat.

Thanks John, I hadn't thought of that either.

[Clive Mortimore]

20 minutes ago, great northern said:

I haven't forgotten your problems with the written word Clive, but I can't resist pointing out that you have actually said that you "would catch me operating a layout with the extra C". That's good, because it may mean that you are beginning to see the light.

Look at the surprise on Hugo's boat race.

[great northern]

8 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Look at the surprise on Hugo's boat race.

From what you have told us about Hugo, I would think it would be "Is it edible", followed by "Can I reach it before he can stop me".

[great northern]

Another plonk. I quite like ths one.

[St Enodoc]

11 hours ago, great northern said:

From what you have told us about Hugo, I would think it would be "Is it edible", followed by "Can I reach it before he can stop me".

Having met said hound, I think that he probably wouldn't worry whether it was edible or not...

[great northern]

A look down the forecourt to Station Road and the bridge.

Quite effective, but I may have to do something about the unbroken  expanse of grey in the foreground. A bit of rubbish and clutter, at least?

[franciswilliamwebb]

2 minutes ago, great northern said:

A bit of rubbish and clutter, at least?

 

Well, once you've got your busses on bridges sorted, the next step is traditionally The Cameo Scene incorporating a bunch of emergency vehicles with flashing lights😉

[37Oban]

52 minutes ago, great northern said:

A look down the forecourt to Station Road and the bridge.

Quite effective, but I may have to do something about the unbroken  expanse of grey in the foreground. A bit of rubbish and clutter, at least?

Hi,

 

I agree.  Also needs some subtle weathering and I would also paint the footpath kerb, the ones I've seen are always a different colour to the path and road being made from a type of concrete.

 

Roja

[juke]

'Quite effective, but I may have to do something about the unbroken  expanse of grey in the foreground. A bit of rubbish and clutter, at least?'

 

What about kerbside drains and 'man holes' in the road?

 

Syd