Peterborough North

[great northern]

You said in an earlier post that you don´t use focus-stacking for your images, but how do you achieve the fantasic depth of field in your images?

 This may sound silly, but I just compose a shot, fiddle with manual setting on the camera till the exposure  looks right to me, and fire away. It is a very good little camera, so it deserves any credit really.

[great northern]

One more image of the V2, monochrome by way of a change.

and then an unusual view from the other side of Spital bridge.

I'm quite pleased with the way that turned out.

[great northern]

Is my memory playing tricks? Grandad used to take me out on simmer evenings for a couple pf houts at Offord LC, Sandy, Abbots Ripton etc. I well remember Deltic D9004 when it was brand new, always on the Aberdonian for months at about 8.20pm through Offord (not far behind D0280 on the Pullman). But what I seem to remember was the last coach of the Aberdonian was a catering vehicle of some sort? Obvoiusly a tad later than 1958, but does anyone else remember this.

 

Stewart

Your memory is very good Stewart. The Winter 1959 book shows the last vehicle of the Aberdonian to be a Restaurant Unclasssified. It appears to have been either detached or locked on arrival at York a little while before midnight. It seems the same or a very similar formation ran in Deltic days, but I don't have an official CWN as late as that.

[thegreenhowards]

Your memory is very good Stewart. The Winter 1959 book shows the last vehicle of the Aberdonian to be a Restaurant Unclasssified. It appears to have been either detached or locked on arrival at York a little while before midnight. It seems the same or a very similar formation ran in Deltic days, but I don't have an official CWN as late as that.

I can't claim to remember it, but such a vehicle was shown in the carriage workings for many years. It served dinner for the Aberdonian punters, and was detached at York and returned empty. By the early sixties this was a Mark 1, but for most, if not all, of the fifties it was a rather unusual Gresley D.11 restaurant car which had a larger saloon and smaller kitchen than the standard D.10C. No kit is available AFAIK, but I'm trying to work out whether one can cut and shut Kirk kits to produce one.

 

In the '57/58 period when the Aberdonian title switched to a later train, I think this Restaurant car duty disappeared.

 

Andy

Edited March 30, 2017 by thegreenhowards

[great northern]

Good morning all. I tried a tighter crop on that shot down the DE siding, the intention being to cut out the half buildings in the distance. I don't think it really works though, so I didn't shop it, and it won't count towards your morning rations.

 

Some time ago I was asked for some more M&GN, but there weren't any left in yesterday's sequence. Here is the first of the morning, bringing workers from the intermediate stations from Kings Lynn to their jobs in Peterborough.

and then I did a sort of moody shot just showing carriages resting at platform 2.

[Richard E]

Gilbert

 

you've done it again, nicked a prototype picture, photoshopped in a light fitting (albeit I only noticed it on a second look) and you're trying to tell us it's the model ....

 

 

Just love this :-)

[Market65]

That is definitely a prototype photo'! One of your very best, Gilbert. Please keep them coming.

 

Best regards,

 

Rob.

[great northern]

First up tonight is another shot of 43108, waiting for its passengers to disembark, and trudge off to work, before taking its stock down to Nene sidings.

While more happy workers arrive from March, giving the welcome sight of another B17.

very low angled sun by the time I took this, not the best idea.

[danstercivicman]

Great shots

[great northern]

A bright and breezy morning here, and another opportunity to look at a B17 too.

From the North, meanwhile, another Class C parcels appears, routed via the Up slow, as the Ivatt is still occupying the Up main.

This view always looks lopsided to me, but perhaps the proposed backscene to the left of the 9F may eventually cure that. Otherwise, I like the panoramic view across the whole width of the layout to feature now and again.

[great northern]

Now, which B17 was that?

and another view of that 9F on the Up slow.

[coachmann]

I haven't noticed it before but the B17 appears to have boiler band lining directly on a boiler without raised boiler bands. Now that really is a good move on RTR locos.

[great northern]

I haven't noticed it before but the B17 appears to have boiler band lining directly on a boiler without raised boiler bands. Now that really is a good move on RTR locos.

That one is a Mike Edge scratchbuild with a Rathbone paint job, Larry, comissioned at a time when Hornby only did tender drive B17s. It shows how far they have come if this one can be compared with the latest RTR.

[trw1089]

I do feel rather spoilt with all the B17 pics of late. Was a 9F on the parcels a regular occurrence? Perhaps that's where the idea of running one at 90 mph on a passenger service may have started if a crew were allowed to give one its head on Class C workings.

 

Cheers

Tony

[great northern]

I do feel rather spoilt with all the B17 pics of late. Was a 9F on the parcels a regular occurrence? Perhaps that's where the idea of running one at 90 mph on a passenger service may have started if a crew were allowed to give one its head on Class C workings.

 

Cheers

Tony

Both New England and Doncaster 9Fs took over more and more parcels and ECS workings as the last batch came into service, but I don't think they were tightly timed. The 90mph episode was, at the time, unique, as that 9F had only been put on a SO Peterborough service because the cupboard was bare at KX. Maybe Top Shed expected Grantham to substitute something more suitable for the Class A return part of the diagram, but it didn't happen. I've read that the driver who achieved 90mph claimed that he "thought he was driving a Britannia", when the enquiries began.

[great northern]

Last two pictures of these two locos this morning. First one shows the 9F passing the now stationary B17.

This one somehow managed to over crop itself when I wasn't looking. Then finally we see the 9F beginning its journey back across the whole formation to get to the Up slow the other side of Crescent Bridge.

Edited April 1, 2017 by great northern

[great northern]

The next train due was the 8.42 arrival from Grimsby, stopping just about everywhere en route. Rather than use the normal five set that I designated for these E.Lincs locals, I decided to make up the formation of BSK SK CK SK BSK from loose stock, and to use one or two of my recent arrivals. First we see the rather run down Immingham B1 as it heads towards the Up platform.

I have started to repaint some signals black instead of grey, and it immediately made photoshopping easier. Then we have the carriages, each one getting an individual shot.

Mainly Kirk Gresleys, two ancient, one new, and one kit built and one new Bachmann Thompson. It makes a nice train, which would be ruined by the insertion of a Hornby Gresley.

 

[Market65]

The signals in black are now looking so real, Gilbert. It is worth the effort that you are putting into them. The carriages look splendid, and that Bachmann Thompson, is sublime. And what a good example of a filthy B1.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[manna]

G'day Gents.

 

I won't have any newer Hornby mainline Gresley coaches on my layout, although I run the older Hornby Gresley, at least they have a tumblehome, give me 'Kirks' any day.

 

manna

[great northern]

G'day Gents.

 

I won't have any newer Hornby mainline Gresley coaches on my layout, although I run the older Hornby Gresley, at least they have a tumblehome, give me 'Kirks' any day.

 

manna

It wouldn't take much to persuade me to take the same view, frankly. The new Thompsons have really brought it home to me what a bad miss that was on Hornby's part.

[great northern]

I say chaps, I've somehow managed to run out of images to show you.   Only the one left, so I'll have to see what transpires while Peter Leyland is here today, though I think a lot of our time will be taken up in pondering and trying to find some fairly complicated solutions to ongoing conundrums. Anyway, that Grimsby local was quickly followed by one of Immingham's two most prestigious turns to London, and a B1 in appropriate condition.

 

[coachmann]

That one is a Mike Edge scratchbuild with a Rathbone paint job, Larry, comissioned at a time when Hornby only did tender drive B17s. It shows how far they have come if this one can be compared with the latest RTR.

Thanks. I must be getting old or used to RTR, as I never noticed the Romford driving wheel centres even. Thanks to your pictures, I bought a latest Thompson corridor brake third. I wanted an E.Region through coach and a RTR Thompson saved me building a Gresley on a Hornby donor roof and chassis. 

Edited April 2, 2017 by coachmann

[great northern]

Engineer's possession at PN today, so only static pictures could be taken, and which did not disturb the work Peter Leyland was doing. First one is a panoramic view looking North.

Then the part of the hotel that guests don't see, the tradesmen's entrance, and some empties.

[New Haven Neil]

That first shot is the sort of thing I really like!

[great northern]

Here is a corner of a yard. Bit boring, isn't it?

How about a nice signal box close up to compensate. Oh! shouldn't mention compensation, that's always good for a row.