Peterborough North

[great northern]

Your model of 'Mons Meg' is fantastic, but wowee, the prototype has a very ungainly side profile!

Some unkind people might allege that it looks ungainly from any angle. Definitely an acquired taste, but essential for PN.

[Sandhole]

I really like an A3 with DC and GN tender, almost as much as I like a Modified MN with 6.5gal tender (Big Boy's trolly).

P

The only A3 I ever saw in service, Lancastrian, I didn't get over the Pennines much! Was Harvester,. She had a double chimney, no German deflectors and a GN tender.

Lovely!

          C.

[great northern]

The only A3 I ever saw in service, Lancastrian, I didn't get over the Pennines much! Was Harvester,. She had a double chimney, no German deflectors and a GN tender.

Lovely!

          C.

That one was very rare indeed down south.

[great northern]

I don't think I've done a shot from Crescent Bridge since the Midland sidings went in, so our man was despatched to remedy that, and caught Tracery just before it plunged into the gloom.

So, the void on the left has now been sorted, which unfortunately just draws more attention to the void on the right.

 

Our man rapidly continues at the same height to the far end, though he now has nothing to stand on.

Note to self. It isn't just the exterior of those wagons that need to be weathered.

[Mallard60022]

That one was very rare indeed down south.

Spookily I saw Harvester at Newcastle in '61 or '62. I think it was shedded at Neville Hill at the time? I've even got a photo somewhere and that's whay I think I like the DC and GN Tender combo.

P

[great northern]

Spookily I saw Harvester at Newcastle in '61 or '62. I think it was shedded at Neville Hill at the time? I've even got a photo somewhere and that's whay I think I like the DC and GN Tender combo.

P

Yes, it was a Neville Hill engine for many years, which is why we never saw it south of Leeds or York, both of which were out of pocket money range. Just checked Yeadon, and it was withdrawn from there in 1963, having been there for many years.

[Sandhole]

Yes, it was a Neville Hill engine for many years, which is why we never saw it south of Leeds or York, both of which were out of pocket money range. Just checked Yeadon, and it was withdrawn from there in 1963, having been there for many years.

I was a little boy on my first visit to York with my Dad.

Harvester and a V2 un-named made a big impression. I have models of both running on the trainset.

                                          C.

[Mallard60022]

I'm going to try to find that Pic. (Edit at 09.09). It will distract me from the deep hatred of trickery.

 

P

Edited June 16, 2018 by Mallard60022

[great northern]

And so we come to the last two trains to be photographed on another late summer day at PN. As it is now past 1000pm, one marvels at the camera's ability to be able to turn out these images well after sunset, but we shall not enquire more deeply. From the north comes the last local from Grantham.

This formation ran from Doncaster to Grantham earlier in the evening, and had a rest before coming on to PN. The A3 no doubt has a more challenging job to follow. BZ CK TSO BZ is the unusual formation, by the way.

 

From the South, the 7.21pm slow from KX. The HMRS survey showed this to be A4 hauled on successive days in July 58, with number 10 being in charge on the second day, so here it is doing the same turn again a few weeks later.

 

[richard.h]

Nice day, poor golf, ate my annual sausage. No more to be said really. I'm fixated on this view at the moment.

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But then I tried something more experimental.

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Not the finished article, but I think this can be made to work, especially if the loco is allowed to move a bit further onward, and thus straighten up a bit.

The second photo is an interesting shot from a new angle that I haven't seen used before but if you are going to use it regularly I would consider adding some ballast.

It is not apparent in the first photo but shows up in the second, maybe we have just been spoiled and we or not used to seeing bare track on Peterborough North running lines

[great northern]

The second photo is an interesting shot from a new angle that I haven't seen used before but if you are going to use it regularly I would consider adding some ballast.

It is not apparent in the first photo but shows up in the second, maybe we have just been spoiled and we or not used to seeing bare track on Peterborough North running lines

Bear with us please Richard. That is as far as we got last time we worked on it. Tim is pencilled in to visit again next month, and both the ballasting and the filling of the gap between original baseboard and extension are on the work schedule. Space behind there is very limited, so having someone half my age to sqeeze in there has considerable appeal for me. There is a lot to be done on the bend from Crescent Bridge too, but again it has to wait till time is available.

[Sandhole]

That one was very rare indeed down south.

There is a lovely shot of Harvester at Harrogate on the south bound 'Queen of Scots'. in Pennine Steam.

I have no idea of engine changes on crack North Eastern express trains, but would this be one of the rare times she actually got down to the 'Smoke'?

                                                      C.

[great northern]

There is a lovely shot of Harvester at Harrogate on the south bound 'Queen of Scots'. in Pennine Steam.

I have no idea of engine changes on crack North Eastern express trains, but would this be one of the rare times she actually got down to the 'Smoke'?

                                                      C.

No, she would have come off at Leeds Central, and a Copley Hill A1 would have taken over, as the train reversed there. The Neville Hill A3s had no duties to the south of Leeds at all. Their work was between Leeds, York and Newcastle.

[Sandhole]

No, she would have come off at Leeds Central, and a Copley Hill A1 would have taken over, as the train reversed there. The Neville Hill A3s had no duties to the south of Leeds at all. Their work was between Leeds, York and Newcast

Of course the train would reverse.

I said I had no idea about GN train movements!.

I remember the Yorkshire Pullman in the 70's.

Thanks for clearing that up.

                                   C.

[Mallard60022]

Sorry, still looking but distracted by things I'm finding that I had forgotten I had!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try again shortly.

P

[Mallard60022]

No, she would have come off at Leeds Central, and a Copley Hill A1 would have taken over, as the train reversed there. The Neville Hill A3s had no duties to the south of Leeds at all. Their work was between Leeds, York and Newcastle.

....and Hull, I've seen a pic; Google A3 Class Locomotive 60074...quite good fun.

P

[Sandhole]

....and Hull, I've seen a pic; Google A3 Class Locomotive 60074...quite good fun.

P

Just done it.

One shot, exactly as I remember seeing her over 50 years ago!!!

                                 C.

[Mallard60022]

Apologies. I have found a lot of things not seen for years but not the album in which Harvester features.

P

[great northern]

Apologies. I have found a lot of things not seen for years but not the album in which Harvester features.

P

Phil, you are to stop looking for this album. You must make no more efforts to find it. In fact you must expunge all thought of it from your mind completely. That will guarantee that you will very soon find it while looking for something else entirely.

[great northern]

 Golf club politics intrude at 9.30 on a Saturday evening. Apologies for your delayed evening photos. The very end of the day is captured, as those two locals meet up.

 

Nine hours then fly by, and our man is up and about again to record the start of a new day. Number 1 bay holds two locos waiting for their first duties.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Oh, those nine hours, what fun we used to have, goods trains to KX goods, freightliners, first and second mail, parcels trains................sleepers.

 

manna

[great northern]

G'Day Folks

 

Oh, those nine hours, what fun we used to have, goods trains to KX goods, freightliners, first and second mail, parcels trains................sleepers.

 

manna

 Yes, there would be some very interesting workings if I did a night sequence, wouldn't there?  I'm not sure where I could store all the stock though, nor how I could find the funds to acquire it. A rake of sleepers on those 66ft bodies?

[great northern]

Not much going on, so we can have a walk around the edge of the railway. We start over by Crescent Bridge box.

 

then if we skirt round the back of the box, and over to the Midland side, we can get this view.

[31A]

The grain wagons (and others) make a nice background in the upper picture!

[great northern]

The grain wagons (and others) make a nice background in the upper picture!

They work very well, don't they, as they have a good deal of bulk to them. I remembered that I had three up in the loft, which, added to the rake Phil has kindly loaned me, cover quite a lot of ground. I've no photographic evidence of them at PN, but surely in such an agricultural area they would have been needed in late summer/early autumn?