Peterborough North

[great northern]

A lot to do today, golf club stuff and setting up this article for HM, so it is another quick visit. The camera liked the look of these coaches in number 4 bay, so we got a picture of them. The lamp was hit by a low flying something or other. The man will be along to replace it shortly.

I really do prefer Kirks to 'orrible Hornby. As you will see in due course, I got fixated on the DE area and took pictures from all angles. Here is the next one. The higher angle does give you a view of that further building which you may not have seen before.

[JeffP]

I like the DE loco inside it's compound. That view of just the top of it's cab would frustrate the spotters too, could they underline it, having NOT seen the number, yet knowing that only that particular loco was to be seen at Peterborough.

 

I well remember getting kicked out of Doncaster works at the Kirk Street entrance when another spotter told me Mallard was among the locos at the front. You could make out 60..., but nothing else. I was forbidden to write it's number down unless I could verify it in it's entirety. Edging further and further inside the works, I was just able to do so befoire being summarily ejected.

 

And people who didn't trainspot thought we weren't serious....

[great northern]

I like the DE loco inside it's compound. That view of just the top of it's cab would frustrate the spotters too, could they underline it, having NOT seen the number, yet knowing that only that particular loco was to be seen at Peterborough.

 

I well remember getting kicked out of Doncaster works at the Kirk Street entrance when another spotter told me Mallard was among the locos at the front. You could make out 60..., but nothing else. I was forbidden to write it's number down unless I could verify it in it's entirety. Edging further and further inside the works, I was just able to do so befoire being summarily ejected.

 

And people who didn't trainspot thought we weren't serious....

I'm sure we all have similar memories. One of mine concerns Newark, probably around 1957/8. We had hung around under the road bridge at the North end of the station for as long as we dared, but the time came when we had to start walking back to Newark Castle station to get the train home. As we got right to the end of the access road, we heard the noise of a train, and a clean A4 shot by northwards. It was getting dusk though and we were some way from it. Was that 60009? We would have loved it to be, and we really thought it was, but could we be sure? Even for teenage oiks honesty prevailed. 60003/6/7/8 were far more likely candidates, so we didn't count it. I still think it was though.

[great northern]

For once I can look back on a day and say that I have done everything which I aimed to do. Golf club stuff sorted, article stuff sorted, and then a very good and constructive meeting this evening. All of which means I have been nowhere near the raiway, nor have I done any photoshopping, but there we are. So, tonight we get what's already in store, which is very similar to what you saw this morning. Another view of the DE area.

and a slightly different angle on that rake of Gresleys.

 

[westerner]

Smashing photos Gilbert, again all with very neutral skies.

[Podhunter]

 

then we have another look under the roof, this time with no trains to interrupt the view.

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The photo under the roof is excellent: usually the interior is dark and obscure.  You've captured what we expect to see as a passenger.

[JeffP]

I'm sure we all have similar memories. One of mine concerns Newark, probably around 1957/8. We had hung around under the road bridge at the North end of the station for as long as we dared, but the time came when we had to start walking back to Newark Castle station to get the train home. As we got right to the end of the access road, we heard the noise of a train, and a clean A4 shot by northwards. It was getting dusk though and we were some way from it. Was that 60009? We would have loved it to be, and we really thought it was, but could we be sure? Even for teenage oiks honesty prevailed. 60003/6/7/8 were far more likely candidates, so we didn't count it. I still think it was though.

Puts me in mind of spotting at Doncaster, when we'd always be in the underpass when the shouts of "Streeeeaaaak" would go up.

Emerging from the underpass up the steps onto what was always the wrong platform, would give us the departing view of the train....and it probably was an A4.

The older lads would then all swear blind it was a rarity.

 

Same thing getting back from the works: the A4 you needed had always come through while you were away...allegedly.

 

I blame this for my lack of confidence as an adult....

[great northern]

Not much time again today, so we just get two more looks over the fence into the DE area.

I shouldn't really use the word "just" when referring to the privilege of seeing Peter Leyland's work in close up.

[great northern]

The camera still lingers on the same area.

but then moves round to give something different for a change.

This has come out well, but I can't now remember what I rested the camera on to get this elevated view. I don't think it was on the tripod, but it does look quite high.

[westerner]

I think you've cracked it Gilbert with those neutral skies, they some how fit the tones of the rest of the layout. I do find added skies rather distracting. They do work occasionally when the photo is B&W.

[New Haven Neil]

I really like the shots of the engineers buildings, the one with the coach in particular.  That is how I remember those places, the hint of things going on inside that you would love to see - might even be a cop with a new shunter.....

[great northern]

I'm glad the shots of the DE area meet with approval, as I still have more.

There is something in that picture which needs toning down. We also have a different angle on the high level view looking South.

[31A]

 

 

There is something in that picture which needs toning down. 

 

 

 

Trousers?

[The Stationmaster]

Trousers?

 

And too much grease on his jacket - even a highly polished Passenger shunter couldn't get his jacket that shiny.  He could do with a gentle waft over with Dulcote before he leaves for work in the morning.

[JeffP]

What was inside the DE buildings? the one at the rear has the look of an engineering works?

[great northern]

Trousers?

 

 

And too much grease on his jacket - even a highly polished Passenger shunter couldn't get his jacket that shiny.  He could do with a gentle waft over with Dulcote before he leaves for work in the morning.

 I was thinking more of the every orange crates/boxes in the background. I take your point though about the gentleman's attire, and I shall add weathering of people to the "to do" list. Dulcote doesn't half niff though.

[Metropolitan H]

I hadn't looked hard enough at the boxes - I assumed they were iron castings out to weather before machining, for which they are just about the right colour!

 

Regards

Chris H

[The Stationmaster]

 I was thinking more of the every orange crates/boxes in the background. I take your point though about the gentleman's attire, and I shall add weathering of people to the "to do" list. Dulcote doesn't half niff though.

 

They look like the colour if those old woven wicker cane laundry baskets to me - right sort of colour for those but need a bit of toning down perhaps; definitely a strange colour for wooden boxes.  (I wonder if railway laundry baskets worked between the hotel at Peterborough and the railway's laundry at York at one time?)

Edited February 23, 2018 by The Stationmaster

[Denbridge]

I'm glad the shots of the DE area meet with approval, as I still have more.

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There is something in that picture which needs toning down. We also have a different angle on the high level view looking South.

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The thing that jumped out at me as needing toning down was the coupling loop. Great pics as always though

[great northern]

What was inside the DE buildings? the one at the rear has the look of an engineering works?

Try as we may, we know little about that area. There are very few photographs, and even the OS maps I've seen are confusing. We've done the best we can, but really a lot of it is just a question of trying to get it to look right, which Peter has, as usual, achieved. What went on inside particular buildings? I haven't a clue really.

 

The three at the back are still there, so those were done from photos which were kindly taken for me by a local, and there are plenty of images of the building right at the front, though none at all of its rear. Just to make things even worse, photos taken from even slightly different angles appear to show entirely different things.

[great northern]

They look like the colour if those old woven wicker cane laundry baskets to me - right sort of colour for those but need a bit of toning down perhaps; definitely a strange colour for wooden boxes.  (I wonder if railway laundry baskets worked between the hotel at Peterborough and the railway's laundry at York at one time?)

I've been and had another look at those crates, and they are nothing like as garish as the camera makes them out to be. Something to do with it picking up on the brightest thing in shot? I don't know for sure, but it would be logical for laundry to go to York, I suppose.

[manna]

What was inside the DE buildings? the one at the rear has the look of an engineering works?

G'Day Folks

 

Soot stores.

 

manna

[great northern]

More of those buildings on the Up side.

and for those suffering from train starvation, the first of a quite long photoshoot which I managed to fit in this morning. Well over 20 images, and some very nice ones. It was only when putting them through Digital Photo Pro that I noticed that I'd had the camera set to white fluorescent light. Oh dear!, I exclaimed. Once I've saved them as Jpegs I can't alter the settings any more, so I'm just having to do whatever I can with them. Here's the first effort, the approaching 7.43am York, with its regular filthy A2/3.

A heavy crop and conversion to black and white doesn't really save the day.

 

[westerner]

Gilbert, I hate to disagree but I think it does.

[great northern]

Gilbert, I hate to disagree but I think it does.

That's the kind of disagreement I like.