Peterborough North

[great northern]

All that last crop needs is a sheen on everything as if it has been raining, render it in black and white and it could be the real thing.

 

Somehow it really imparts bulk to the sheds in the background in just the way real life does and makes the railway sit in the scene. My only criticism is what looks like a small gap at the foot of the nearest platform wall but even that will be less prominent with using black and white.

I can do the black and white bit Richard, but not the rain effect. I had thought about doing it in b/w actually, and I agree that it does work well. We will get all of those gaps sorted..... eventually.

[Northroader]

Next thing we know, we'll be getting a Merchant Navy on the standby job, and A4s running through a certain place in east Devon? Nationalisation, eh?

[Mallard60022]

Next thing we know, we'll be getting a Merchant Navy on the standby job, and A4s running through a certain place in east Devon? Nationalisation, eh?

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Not too far away that one. 

Ar$e

[Richard E]

The camera can be cruel, it will highlight the little things the eye blanks out in real life.

[New Haven Neil]

Oooh an N5 fest!  Lush.

[Mallard60022]

Oooh an N5 fest!  Lush.

Just an 'N' didn't make the ballast move for you then Manx?

W. Worth 

[New Haven Neil]

Just an 'N' didn't make the ballast move for you then Manx?

W. Worth 

 

I'm a bit cold on those N's, or at least 'not bothered'.  Spam Cans though, of either variety, are a different matter!

[davidw]

Yes, I've got this wrong, in an attempt to bend things to suit my needs. I should have a V2 sitting doing nothing all day, as that is what happened in 1958, but I really don't have as many V2s as I need, and so I relegate the worst examples to this duty. I agree that would not have happened, and indeed I have read more than once that although New England engines looked pretty awful on the outside, internally they were generally sound, so a good 'un would have been selected for pilot duty. I should not have drawn attention to the general decrepitude of the locos I choose. They are right though for the KX slows, which would be just the sort of thing I think that would be allocated to something that needed to have its mileage increased before it could be proposed for shopping.

 More v2s? ditto!

[great northern]

Continuing the early morning movements, we next spy another V2, which is standing in the carriage sidings at the head of the stock for the 7.25am to KX. It cannot pull forward into Platform 2 yet though, as the Glasgow- Colchester is scheduled to occupy that only Up platform first.

And here it comes, Golden Eagle in charge, still with single chimney, but not for much longer. Yet another relatively light duty for a run down engine, but the return trip will be another matter.

And that is all for today.

[great northern]

Another cold grey and windy morning here, getting a bit tedious. Instead let us go back nearly sixty years to a nice morning in a place where steam rules almost supreme, and watch 60023 making its way into the station.

That sky looked too blue, even when toned down, so it was replaced by another for the next shot. The N5 is moving away from the stock in Platform 3, so the locos have changed positions.

 

I find that I prefer A4s with the double chimney, but that it slightly spoils the appearance and symmetry of an A3. A bit illogical really, I suppose.

[The Blue Streak]

 

I find that I prefer A4s with the double chimney, but that it slightly spoils the appearance and symmetry of an A3. A bit illogical really, I suppose.

 

Hooray, I thought that I was the only one.

[Clearwater]

I read yesterday that Golden Eagle's nameplate is coming up for auction soon:

 

http://www.gwra.co.uk/nextauction.html

 

Suspect it will go for quite a large amount of money....

[Mallard60022]

A4s, double chimney....yup, makes them look 'strong'.

As it is still grey and cold, give yourself a few minutes fun by doing the link below.

 

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/chimney/chimney.htm

 

OT for this post only:

A3, double chimney, no deflectors and with GN tender. For me, beautiful (but I could just accept a single chimney in this format).

K. Illchap

[great northern]

A4s, double chimney....yup, makes them look 'strong'.

As it is still grey and cold, give yourself a few minutes fun by doing the link below.

 

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/chimney/chimney.htm

 

OT for this post only:

A3, double chimney, no deflectors and with GN tender. For me, beautiful (but I could just accept a single chimney in this format).

K. Illchap

Damn funny chap, Johnny foreigner, what?

[great northern]

One more view of Golden Eagle tonight.

Note how few things are sticking out of the top of it.

and the C12 has now attached that BG to the rear of the train.

and has also done it in black and white.

[stewartingram]

One more view of Golden Eagle tonight.

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Note how few things are sticking out of the top of it.

 

 

Is that an early prototype 91 with a pantograph?

 

Stewart

[great northern]

Is that an early prototype 91 with a pantograph?

 

Stewart

It is an unavoidable excrescence. Or it might be something to do with direction finding.

[Mallard60022]

I read yesterday that Golden Eagle's nameplate is coming up for auction soon:

 

http://www.gwra.co.uk/nextauction.html

 

Suspect it will go for quite a large amount of money....

Crowd Funding required right away.

Phil

[Mallard60022]

Look what I found whilst wasting time looking at nonsense doing  serious research into drafting soloutions.......

 

Quite cute in a strange sort of Stratford way.

P

[great northern]

Look what I found whilst wasting time looking at nonsense doing  serious research into drafting soloutions.......

Stratford3.jpg

 

Quite cute in a strange sort of Stratford way.

P

Where did you find that Phil?

[great northern]

Today you are privileged to see an impending disaster. The B17 has now backed on, and 60023 is reversing down to New England for servicing. As the Down Main is occupied, it has been routed along Platform 6, but as you can see something has gone awry.

Fortunately the engine was moving very slowly, and prompt action by the driver prevented a complete derailment.

 

I thought this would make a nice photo, and potentially it does. Being idle again, I crane shunted the engine and put it back on track, or not, here. As usual, it wasn't noticable when looking at the view finder. I suppose I could check each shot after I take it, but I forget.

Another filthy and run down loco is allocated to a train where hopefully not much harm can be done. This one is backing down onto the Doncaster slow. In a few weeks though, all the wayside stations it serves will be closed, and this service, which has run at around this time for a century and more, will be no more.

[Mallard60022]

Where did you find that Phil?

I think (as it was some time ago....yesterday maybe?) it was search for locomotives with unusual chimneys.(see below for that)?    So it was 'pictures of LNER locomotives' and scroll down the more pictures part.

P

Edited June 3, 2016 by Mallard60022

[Richard E]

Try looking at http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/chimney/chimney.htm

 

Boy are there some weird draughting arrangements there!

[Richard E]

Meant to add that there is one loco pictured in the link that our dear duck might like to try running on Seaton Junction. Mind you if you produced it on an exhibition layout the rivet counters would be saying 'impossible, the Southern would never have done anything like that!'

[Mallard60022]

Meant to add that there is one loco pictured in the link that our dear duck might like to try running on Seaton Junction. Mind you if you produced it on an exhibition layout the rivet counters would be saying 'impossible, the Southern would never have done anything like that!'

If it is the Arthur with the 'stealth' triple chimney, then in my Book of the King Arthurs (I think that's the name) there are quite a few other crazy experimental chimney attachments. Hilarious and it would be fun to frighten the RCs!

Philth