Peterborough North

[A Murphy]

I too like the high up views Gilbert, but somewhat counter intuitively I thought the shot of Enterprise alongside the DMU gave a lovely ground level sweep, the sort of thing a (lucky) casual observer might have seen in 1958.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alastair

[great northern]

42 minutes ago, A Murphy said:

I too like the high up views Gilbert, but somewhat counter intuitively I thought the shot of Enterprise alongside the DMU gave a lovely ground level sweep, the sort of thing a (lucky) casual observer might have seen in 1958.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alastair

Just good fortune sometimes, I think. The day I took the shots of Enterprise, the light was absolutely perfect, and I picked just the right time of day. The second shot was an attempt at a different angle, which just clicked, so I'll try to remember that one for the future.

[great northern]

Eleven o' clock again. I've just spent nearly an hour trying to decide whether to cut my own hair. I bought some clippers, and I've looked at  "how to do it" videos, but I can't bring myself to have a go. I suppose if I aim for a crew cut it doesn't matter how badly I do it.

 

For the time being, I'll stick to what I know I can do. An opportunity was taken just to show some of the length of that Class C as it came through.

 

 

As soon as it had cleared section, signals came off again to allow another M&GN train to pull in, this one having traversed the whole length of the line from Yarmouth.

 

 

By this time, the signal box roof was back to where it should be.

[cctransuk]

41 minutes ago, great northern said:

I've just spent nearly an hour trying to decide whether to cut my own hair. I bought some clippers, and I've looked at  "how to do it" videos, but I can't bring myself to have a go. I suppose if I aim for a crew cut it doesn't matter how badly I do it.

 

I, too, bought clippers, and my wife performed her first haircut on me - the result, frankly, is just as good as I am used to paying £10 for.

 

She used the cutting guard that equates to a finger thickness - which is what I have at the barbers - and simply mowed my mop as I would the lawn! A touch of tapering at the back and round the ears with a shorter guard and - job done. My wife now has another chore!

 

It would be a little more awkward doing it myself but, with a mirror front and back, I think that it would be possible.

 

Anyway, with social distancing, who's going to see!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[great northern]

57 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

I, too, bought clippers, and my wife performed her first haircut on me - the result, frankly, is just as good as I am used to paying £10 for.

 

She used the cutting guard that equates to a finger thickness - which is what I have at the barbers - and simply mowed my mop as I would the lawn! A touch of tapering at the back and round the ears with a shorter guard and - job done. My wife now has another chore!

 

It would be a little more awkward doing it myself but, with a mirror front and back, I think that it would be possible.

 

Anyway, with social distancing, who's going to see!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

That's reassuring John, thank you. I suspect mine will have to get a bit longer before I pluck up courage though.

[FarrMan]

Gilbert

 

I have not been to a barber for 27 years. My wife used to do it for me with the clippers, but for the last few years the noise has been too much for her, so I do it myself, without the aid of mirrors, and my wife just tidies it up for me a trims the back and round the ears. Once I forgot to put the cutting guard on, and a bit straight up the middle was rather short. I was preaching the next day - everyone claimed not to have noti8ced!

 

Lloyd

[great northern]

I'm going to be very smug now. Did I mention that tidying up the railway room was one of the tasks I had given myself? Not going too badly so far.

 

 

 

It does make sense though, doesn't it?  It lifts my spirits to look at it, and makes it much easier to get around under there, and to find things, which are now in the box, where they should be all along. Job's about half done now.

[Mallard60022]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

Eleven o' clock again. I've just spent nearly an hour trying to decide whether to cut my own hair. I bought some clippers, and I've looked at  "how to do it" videos, but I can't bring myself to have a go. I suppose if I aim for a crew cut it doesn't matter how badly I do it.

 

For the time being, I'll stick to what I know I can do. An opportunity was taken just to show some of the length of that Class C as it came through.

 

 

As soon as it had cleared section, signals came off again to allow another M&GN train to pull in, this one having traversed the whole length of the line from Yarmouth.

 

 

By this time, the signal box roof was back to where it should be.

 

Maybe have a go, otherwise 

P

[great northern]

Afternoon tea delayed, as once again an intended two mile walk turned into four, and took 42 minutes, two minutes over target.

 

All done now though, and time for our now customary mid afternoon images. Yet again, this features a diesel, Clive is getting spoiled. Railway Observer says the EE4s were regularly used on the Down Heart of Midlothian, and that has happened today.

 

 

 

 

 

It comes off here, and returns with the 5.25 slow, which is used for crew training. Apaprently D201 was the most usual choice, so here it is.

[stewartingram]

8 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

I, too, bought clippers, and my wife performed her first haircut on me - the result, frankly, is just as good as I am used to paying £10 for.

 

She used the cutting guard that equates to a finger thickness - which is what I have at the barbers - and simply mowed my mop as I would the lawn! A touch of tapering at the back and round the ears with a shorter guard and - job done. My wife now has another chore!

 

It would be a little more awkward doing it myself but, with a mirror front and back, I think that it would be possible.

 

Anyway, with social distancing, who's going to see!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

A mate of mine at work, used his video camera to see how he was cutting his hair. He did a good job!

 

Stewart

[Oldddudders]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

 an intended two mile walk turned into four, and took 42 minutes, two minutes over target.

Four miles in 42 minutes sounds close to 6 mph. Impressed!

[davidw]

Am I correct in thinking that the Heart of Midlothian had a Thompson SK with ladies retiri g on the consist?

[Clive Mortimore]

I have been using clippers on me own 'ead for years now. I use the same ones on the Spainiel. We both look a right mess but who cares, Gone are my days of trying to attract the opposite sex (or the same if I was that inclined).  

[great northern]

1 hour ago, davidw said:

Am I correct in thinking that the Heart of Midlothian had a Thompson SK with ladies retiri g on the consist?

You are David, and there is one in my formation.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Four miles in 42 minutes sounds close to 6 mph. Impressed!

Sorry Ian, got it wrong. I didn't quite do the whole thing for various reasons, probably a quarter mile short. I try to walk at 4mph. I was quite quick today, but not that quick!

[great northern]

WD time again tonight, first seen through the gap between buildings.

 

 

and then running towards that signal at the end of the Down slow which is nearly always on, as it is today. Well, it isn't going to be let across in front of the Heart of Midlothian, is it?

 

 

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I have been using clippers on me own 'ead for years now. I use the same ones on the Spainiel. We both look a right mess but who cares, Gone are my days of trying to attract the opposite sex (or the same if I was that inclined).  

Looks like you started around the time your avatar photo was taken.

[380John]

Hi Gilbert, 

 

That shot of the WD is fantastic. The composition seems to express the up close feeling one gets from standing next to such a beast in 1:1 scale. The locomotive "looks" as it should, large and "weighty". Something I feel many model railway photographs try to express but rarely achieve up close. 

 

You can almost here the clang of the motion as she passes. In my opinion that picture is definitely a "keeper" 

 

Hope you are keeping well. 

John 

[great northern]

Good morning all. A bit hazy here, the sky, not me, but it is supposed to clear and give us another lovely day. Your morning photos concentrate on the Heart of Midlothian. That is what A3 60088 has been waiting for while sitting in the bay, and now it is pulling away towards the bridge and beyond.

 

 

David W asked yesterday about the Second with Ladies retiring room in the formation, and by coincidence I did feature one car when I was taking these photos, but it was this rather nice Gresley Dia 1 FK.

 

 

 

 

 

[Erichill16]

Quick, straighten the shed in the top picture before Tony W sees it!
Regards ROBERT 

[great northern]

Eleven o'clock again, but at PN it is later, as KX A1 Curlew appears with the 1230 Doncaster-KX.

 

 

 

 

A good load for Curlew, and an interesting mix of Greley and Thompson stock, which will be featured  later, to be watched while having our afternoon tea and biscuits.

[Oldddudders]

1 hour ago, Erichill16 said:

Quick, straighten the shed in the top picture before Tony W sees it!
Regards ROBERT 

No. It is exactly as it should be. It is a fogman's hut, not in use except in fog and falling snow. 

[Erichill16]

20 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

No. It is exactly as it should be. It is a fogman's hut, not in use except in fog and falling snow. 

Now I’ve got my glasses on I can see a bracket that it’s resting on. I admit never seen one in that position before.

[Erichill16]

3 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Quick, straighten the shed in the top picture before Tony W sees it!
Regards ROBERT 

Gilbert, sorry for the jibe, it shows my ignorance and I should have known better(and but my glasses on). I must admit that when I’ve noticed fogmens huts they’ve always be in the upright position but when I’m looking at photos it’s the stock I’m usually interested in.

By the way, what’s the reason for angling them down?

Since apologies,

Robert 

 

[great northern]

25 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Gilbert, sorry for the jibe, it shows my ignorance and I should have known better(and but my glasses on). I must admit that when I’ve noticed fogmens huts they’ve always be in the upright position but when I’m looking at photos it’s the stock I’m usually interested in.

By the way, what’s the reason for angling them down?

Since apologies,

Robert 

 

I surmise that they were propped like that to keep the weather from getting inside when not in use, but there will be people on here who actually dealt with them, and can tell us for sure. I happened to have my PN book open nearby, and spotted this, which features one. Copyright of Andrew C Ingram, and not to be further reproduced, please.