Peterborough North

[jazzer]

32 minutes ago, great northern said:

I bet they were very grateful to their parents. My wife employed a lawyer called Rupert Bear in our divorce proceedings. He wasn't very cuddly.

I remember the name. He was a partner in some big firm in Nottingham. Weren’t they in the Ropewalk ?

[CUTLER2579]

When I was an apprentice I worked with an Instrument Engineer called Richard Bird (Known to all as Dicky).

I would meet him on site and on one occasion as a 18 year old was to meet him at Buckingham Palace to work in the boiler house.

Not for me the tradesman's entrance, my 105E Ford Anglia sailed through the Main Gates to the palace.

Out jumped an infuriated  Mr Bill Plod who almost exploded when I announced I was working with a DickyBird.

Severe ticking off and directed to the trades gate. We respected the police in those days (1965) , unlike some now.

[great northern]

2 hours ago, jazzer said:

I remember the name. He was a partner in some big firm in Nottingham. Weren’t they in the Ropewalk ?

It was one of the big firms, but I don't remember the name. I'm afraid.

[FarrMan]

51 minutes ago, great northern said:

It was one of the big firms, but I don't remember the name. I'm afraid.

My little experience of Nottingham solicitors is that either they are completely stupid, or very bent.

 

Lloyd

[Oldddudders]

30 minutes ago, FarrMan said:

My little experience of Nottingham solicitors is that either they are completely stupid, or very bent.

 

Lloyd

What an unnecessary assertion. 

[great northern]

2 hours ago, FarrMan said:

My little experience of Nottingham solicitors is that either they are completely stupid, or very bent.

 

Lloyd

I have forty years experience Lloyd, working closely with many of them. As in any profession, there are a few bad pennies, but most I have known are decent and highly competent people.

[great northern]

I didn't say we had reached the end of Flying Scotsman shots, did I? "Towards the end," that's what I said. Just one more to come....

 

 

 

Seagull's departure then allowed Mons Meg to follow her, at a safe distance of course.

 

 

[great northern]

Another streak this morning, but of a slightly different variety. 60700 rolls through with its regular duty, the 9.15 York and Hull.

 

 

 

 

[FarrMan]

12 hours ago, great northern said:

I have forty years experience Lloyd, working closely with many of them. As in any profession, there are a few bad pennies, but most I have known are decent and highly competent people.

Gilbert

 

I am glad to hear it, but my experience re a small investment from a legacy some 50 years ago, when I asked for the money back, was not good.  At first all I got was the interest, though they claimed that that was all there was. When they did remember to send the original capital a year later, strangely it had not earned any more interest. It rather put me off them.

 

Some solicitors up here are not much better, though. A few years ago a client of mine got a solicitor to draft a letter admitting that they were to blame (fuel oil contamination to a neighbour), and charged £800 for it. After he had discussed it with me, I adjusted the letter explaining why my client was not to blame as accused, which was sent and accepted by the other party!

 

Lloyd

[Martin S-C]

I think we should discuss model railways here, not the legal profession. There's other non-railway sections of the forum for that.

[great northern]

51 minutes ago, Martin S-C said:

I think we should discuss model railways here, not the legal profession. There's other non-railway sections of the forum for that.

Quite right Martin. Thank you. Let's get back to trains.

[FarrMan]

6 hours ago, great northern said:

Quite right Martin. Thank you. Let's get back to trains.

Sorry

 

Lloyd

[great northern]

Time for the first express from Tyneside. This one left Newcastle at 8.00am, and the Gateshead engine may have got as far as Grantham, but there it would come off, and so the local spotters get to see Knight of Thistle yet again.

 

 

 

Strange. I had to downsize the next one to get it accepted, though it was smaller than the first one. Never mind, it told me that it would look best as a portrait, and so it is.

 

 

 

Golf at Peterborough Milton tomorrow. Heavy rain forecast, changing to thunderstorms. It did that to us last year as well.

[great northern]

Raining hard, but had an e-mail to say the competition at Peterborough is still on. Full wet weather gear is ready, but four hours of heavy rain isn't something to look forward to.

 

It never rains at PN of course, as 60065 continues on its way to London.

 

 

 

 

 

Can't put it off any longer, I'd better start getting my stuff in the car.

[great northern]

The whole round, which took four and a half hours, in continuous heavy rain. Horrible. Not surprisingly, we  didn't score well. However, the Club Captain came to see us afterwards, thanked us for still turning up on such a horrid day, and offered us a complementary round later in the year. That made things a good deal more bearable. And my waterproofs still are, despite many years of use. Not British, of course.

 

Here is a Doncaster A1, bringing the 1020 West Riding express through the station.

 

 

 

The triplet in the Newcastle is on view, and the 1020 Leeds was the only West Riding train which had one, so it is a good job I have two. Then we see Patrick Stirling a bit further along.

 

 

 

[great northern]

I think the damp seeped into my bones yesterday, as I have woken up stiff as a board. This could be another excuse for doing very little today. We shall see.

 

I had assumed that Platform 5 would never be used for passenger trains, because it was so short, but looking at a photo recently I saw that there was still a sign pointing to it, so I presume it must have had occasional use. For that reason, the 1205 diesel to Skegness, which has been throbbing away further down the platform, has just pulled forward to take on passengers, rather than backing and filling to get into Platform 4,

 

 

 

No sitting at the front this time, even though the driver hasn't put the blinds down. Not for lower class oiks, anyway.

 

The DMU will be preceded by fish empties for New Clee, which appear from the south.

 

 

 

This is the first of a series of pictures taken with the lens hood on the camera, so there will be a succession of higher level views.

[great northern]

Waiting in the bay to take over the 7.53 from Sunderland is disgracefully turned out A2/1 Duke of Rothesay.

 

 

 

Nora Batty seems to have found a new friend to talk to, and of course he isn't able to move away, if he wishes to do so. Shortly afterwards, the dirty Duke was hidden by the passing fish empties.

 

 

well, partially hidden, anyway. I may have to get that bridge extended just a bit further.

[great northern]

In case anyone is concerned, I have not developed a fish fixation, but as it happened to be the train that was passing through when I was experimenting with the lens hood, it got a lot of attention. Here then are the next two fishy scenes.

 

 

 

 

 

It is very strange that these two images, which I felt I had to lighten when I was processing them, now look far too bright, to my eyes anyway. Could this be down to the amount of light reaching my monitor screen?

[great northern]

More trains have run today, and more photos have been taken. I have rather a lot in store now, and so.......more fish (empties).

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Shall we have a break from fish? There is some more, but I'll intersperse it with something different. The Up Sunderland is due, and as usual brings the only Heaton engine to get this far South on a regular basis.

 

 

 

My memory tells me that Heaton booked a regular engine to this train, so here is Book Law once again.

 

 

[great northern]

Time for the latest blockbuster, The Return of the Fish.

 

 

 

See... well not much really, as it's all very dark.

 

Marvel..... at the cr*p photoshopping.

 

Enough. Instead let's look at the image a contortionist photographer on Crescent Bridge managed to take.

 

 

 

That's very dark as well.

 

 

 

[great northern]

Positively, definitely, undoubtedly, the last of the fish.

 

 

 

Sorry about the wonky signal arms. Hopefully this will be next on the list to be replaced.

 

Then we have another new angle from Crescent Bridge.

 

 

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

Positively, definitely, undoubtedly, the last of the fish.

 

 

 

Sorry about the wonky signal arms. Hopefully this will be next on the list to be replaced.

 

Then we have another new angle from Crescent Bridge.

 

 

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[great northern]

It's gone, it's clattered off out of sight, and there may not be another one for some time.  Photographers now concentrate on A3 Book Law, which is a very natural and praiseworthy thing to do. The man on the bridge has trotted along to the other end to get this shot.

 

 

 

And the chap lurking in the bushes by the signal box was able to get this one.

 

 

[great northern]

We managed to get two more shots of Book Law before it came off the train and headed off for New England.

 

 

 

A well used viewpoint, this one, bu the next is an attempt at something different.

 

 

 

Funny how things stick in memory, isn't it?  I well remember the first time I saw Book Law. It was during the summer holidays of 1956, and we were on the bridge over the main line at Northgate Newark. It came through southbound, probably on the service seen above. Empire of India was on the Down Elizabethan. I don't have notes of this, I just remember it vividly, but don't ask me what I did the day before yesterday.

 

I also remember that I saw Book Law often during that summer, but therafter I hardly ever saw it again.