Donington Road

Hi Mullie I have just read through the six pages of posts on your layout. You are doing a fine job of making a small layout with plenty of operational interest. I have been impressed with some of your methods to cut costs, making your own trackwork looks quite straight forward and I guess providing you take time doing it, it can be more rewarding too. What I have noticed is where you are working, winter will soon be here again with those cold days and you really need to prepare that garage for a more comfortable existance. I see no floor covering, you need to be standing on a wooden duck board to get your feet off that cold floor. It doesn't need to be too wide, length could be in a couple of sections so you can pull it to the centre of the garage when the car comes in and its then underneath. Also beg some old curtains, the thicker the better, put a wire above the garage door and hang them to cover all that bare metal. The garage door is acting like a cold radiator, its just sucking cold air in and radiating it out into the inside. Keep up the good work, looking forward to new enhancements. mick.

Another photo here showing that indicator box. The ladder and box are definitely on the signal box side of the post, so my previous theory of it facing the station was incorrect. I really should not give suggestions as to its use as no doubt I'll be caught out again BUT, could it have given a warning to certain services to stop and not continue through non-stop mick.

Another thought, could it be a repeater for terminating services setting back into the carraige sidings or did it control the loading bay. The photo came from http://www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/blog/?cat=11 I dont know if you have looked at that site lately but there have been quite a few new additons added recently.

Gilbert, Did you ever solve what the mystery indicator was at the north end? Attached photo shows the ladder on the signal box side which I had not noticed before, so presumably the indicator is facing the station therefore could it be something used for light engine to shed or shunting movements?

It is called Focus Stacking. Here are a few pointers: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/focus-stacking.htm http://photo.tutsplus.com/articles/post-processing-articles/focus-stacking-made-easy-with-photoshop/ mick

Good news, your signal box now has listed status, well the real one anyway. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jul/25/railway-signal-boxes-listed-england mick.

Peterborough East

Excuse me for butting in Great Northern, but I wondered if this might be relevent to you. The buildings (or what was left of them) at the left hand side of the Great Northern Hotel have now all been demolished. If you require any photos of them as they were in 2009, then I suggest you go to Google street view and take some screen grabs before Google Maps get updated. mick.

view from the other side, looks like two indicator panels

is this what you are looking at Gilbert?

Hi Gilbert, I don't usually join forums, usually preferring usenet instead. However, after landing here from some obscure link and noticing the title Peterborough North I just had to read on, well it is local to me. Having read through all 77 pages of this for the last few days I feel like you have invented the ultimate time machine just for me! One of the best reads I have had in ages. What has really caught my attention apart from the exquisite modelling is the nostalgia you have created, be it smoke, steam and grime to Lyon's pies, cartoned milk vending machines, Ian Allen ABC's and the comradery of spotters which has not waned all these years later, judging by all the positve posts. I come to this late so all the superlatives have been quoted, I just cannot think of another but I am sure that there is still many ooooh's and arrrrh's to come. Looking forward to more. PS. "Before The Diesels Came!" by A.V. Fincham was his first book, same format as the other, all photos 1957/58. sadly The Model Shop is no more