Peterborough North

[St Enodoc]

What could be better than a close up of an A3?

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Even closer, perhaps?

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Don't mention golf.

See post #16370.

[Mallard60022]

See post #16370.

     

A. Putter.

[great northern]

     

A. Putter.

Speaking of which, I need a new one, putter that is. Or possibly a new head.

[great northern]

This morning, we have a theme, and it is backs.

So there you are. The back of an A3, the back of a BSO, the back of a DMU,(it will only become the front when it suits me). And our next picture shows 60514 backing on to the Sunderland.

I'm willing to be you have seldom seen such subtlety. Well, not in the last five minutes anyway.

 

[jwealleans]

[great northern]

I've now completed the first coat of grey in the loading dock area. There is more to do, but I thought I'd see what you think of it so far.

[KNP]

It looks far better than the yellow sand colour that gradually crept up on everyone.

 

What are the other stages you plan?

[New Haven Neil]

Great improvement Gilbert, no sign of the beach.  That dreary greyness is spot on.  Bit of grease and oil added where the locos stop will finish the job nicely.

[Market65]

It looks so real to me, Gilbert. I like all you have accomplished so far with the ballasting work. I hope you are to do more in due course.

 

Best regards,

 

Rob.

[great northern]

It looks far better than the yellow sand colour that gradually crept up on everyone.

 

What are the other stages you plan?

It needs some judicious blending of other colours to stop it being too "samey", and I need to work out how to clean off the sleepers too. Then, as Neil says, some oil and grease where locos have been standing.

[great northern]

It looks so real to me, Gilbert. I like all you have accomplished so far with the ballasting work. I hope you are to do more in due course.

 

Best regards,

 

Rob.

 Thanks Rob. It will all have to be done eventually, but I prefer to cover small and out of the way areas first. I've already found that the way I did the area the other side of the bridge isn't the best way to go about it, so there is still a degree of experimentation going on. Carefully, and in small steps, is the way to go.

[Mallard60022]

The 'dock' area looks the works there G. Oh yes, have you seen your Avatar's dress this evening?

A.Thigh.

[great northern]

The 'dock' area looks the works there G. Oh yes, have you seen your Avatar's dress this evening?

A.Thigh.

No, where was that? What have I missed?

[great northern]

While 60514 waits for the right away...

The Cravens DMU, having set back into number 4 bay, now sets off for Cleethorpes.

[great northern]

Round about midday, a pick up goods left New England and meandered very slowly as far as Hitchin. All the photos I've seen show a WD at the head of this train, but as we know, by owner's decree the shedmaster has a shortage of those at the moment, and so some 02s have been temporarily transferred to plug the gap. Thus, everyone is happy. The layout owner can run more 02s than should appear, and the shedmaster's problem is solved. Here is the train at the start of its long and slow progress.

Despite all my efforts there are still lighting problems at this end, and some lattices still defeat me.

And of course a GN 02 will be even more popular in some quarters.

 

[manna]

G'Day All

 

Oh, Yeah. A Rolls Royce of a freight engine.

 

manna

[chaz]

Would that pick-up leave at midday to take advantage of the mid-afternoon lull? What time would it be booked to arrive at Hitchin? I note that the entire train appears to be fitted stock  - was that typical?

 

Nice to see an O2 - I think I have said before that I only ever saw one of these engines when I was a short-trousered spotter watching the ECML traffic one Saturday with my father. We were on the long footbridge at the south end of Hatfield station and it came through light engine heading north. Dad greeted it like a long lost friend as his memories extended to train spotting from the old Highbury stadium when he used to go to reserve matches (he couldn't afford the first team games) and in the thirties he would have regularly seen O2s. He said that the larger cab numbers of LNER days were clearly readable from the terraces.

 

Chaz

[great northern]

Would that pick-up leave at midday to take advantage of the mid-afternoon lull? What time would it be booked to arrive at Hitchin? I note that the entire train appears to be fitted stock  - was that typical?

 

Nice to see an O2 - I think I have said before that I only ever saw one of these engines when I was a short-trousered spotter watching the ECML traffic one Saturday with my father. We were on the long footbridge at the south end of Hatfield station and it came through light engine heading north. Dad greeted it like a long lost friend as his memories extended to train spotting from the old Highbury stadium when he used to go to reserve matches (he couldn't afford the first team games) and in the thirties he would have regularly seen O2s. He said that the larger cab numbers of LNER days were clearly readable from the terraces.

 

Chaz

Morning Chaz. It took seven hours to get to Hitchin, and except in the two track bottlenecks spent the whole time, not surprisingly, on the slow goods lines. The photos show mainly fitted stock, and Andy Rush told me some years back that loaded minerals in mixed trains were not typical, unless in a section to be removed at specific locations, so that's what I work on.

[trw1089]

Really impressed by the ballast coloring in the dock Gilbert, I think it’s a great change in what was there.

 

Cheers

Tony

[Mallard60022]

No, where was that? What have I missed?

Apologies. I thought you were Darcey Bussel.  

[great northern]

Apologies. I thought you were Darcey Bussel.  

No ducky. Me Jane, you mistaken.

[chaz]

Morning Chaz. It took seven hours to get to Hitchin, and except in the two track bottlenecks spent the whole time, not surprisingly, on the slow goods lines. The photos show mainly fitted stock, and Andy Rush told me some years back that loaded minerals in mixed trains were not typical, unless in a section to be removed at specific locations, so that's what I work on.

 

 

The implication being that by the late fifties most goods wagons were fitted, with the unfitted stock replaced by BR new-builds? The only non-fitted stock seen in any numbers were minerals - and mostly steel sixteen tonners? I suppose I ought to do a cull of the grey wagons on Dock Green.....but in the interests of variety.....

 

Chaz

Edited October 30, 2017 by chaz

[The Stationmaster]

The implication being that by the late fifties most goods wagons were fitted, with the unfitted stock replaced by BR new-builds? The only non-fitted stock seen in any numbers were minerals - and mostly steel sixteen tonners? I suppose I ought to do a cull of the grey wagons on Dock Green.....but in the interests of variety.....

 

Chaz

 

It depends on the traffic as well.  Effectively a lot of traffic was by then being moved in Vans and increasingly the fleet of Vans was fitted but some full loads were still passing in other types of wagon - again depends very much on the nature of the traffic.  And no doubt on a train like the one Gilbert is portraying the last things anybody would have done was bag-up the vacuum pipes, a load of faffing about and time wasting to minimal practical effect on a slow freight.

[great northern]

It depends on the traffic as well.  Effectively a lot of traffic was by then being moved in Vans and increasingly the fleet of Vans was fitted but some full loads were still passing in other types of wagon - again depends very much on the nature of the traffic.  And no doubt on a train like the one Gilbert is portraying the last things anybody would have done was bag-up the vacuum pipes, a load of faffing about and time wasting to minimal practical effect on a slow freight.

Yes, I remember Andy Rush telling me that at March they would calculate how much time could be saved en route by bagging up, and it if came to less than the time it would take to do it, it wasn't done!

[great northern]

And tonight......some vans.

and some highs. After they had clattered through, the relief engine for the Down Glasgow was able to make its way across from New England.