James Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Will it be moving? Ten levers must be a tight squeeze! It would have been nice for a nice big NER 'box at the southern end to control all station movements, maybe in readiness for the push south?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Hi, Black Five 4-6-0 No. 45428 'Eric Tracey' was the first steam locomotive to move under the new roof, a video of it is on Youtube: Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 I did nip into Pickering Station, late Friday afternoon April 1st, to check whether the trains on the following day would be using the full length of the station, only to find that they already were. So I missed the first train or loco to travel under the new roof. Anyway, I'll close this thread with a couple of photos taken on that day, the one of the view from the north end of the station and the other of the NYMR's standard class 4 actually being pulled out of the station by the loco on the other end of this train. Still, as this isn't a video then only the most expert would know that this class 4 is in reverse gear. I wonder what their next major project might be? Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERJP Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I wonder what their next major project might be? Two more bridges, Falsgrave gantry and dare I say the Bellwood centre! J.P. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chriswright03 Posted April 4, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2011 Went on Friday on the way up to Whitby and saw Eric trying the roof for size. Workers were still fixing the steam deflectors on one end so were still manhandling scaffolding around the track. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Expect something very cool to visit the line for the official opening... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
industrial Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Expect something very cool to visit the line for the official opening... Snow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Mikemeg= "I wonder what their next major project might be?" James= "maybe in readiness for the push south?! " i dont need to write what i'm thinking just guess from the quotes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Mikemeg= "I wonder what their next major project might be?" James= "maybe in readiness for the push south?! " i dont need to write what i'm thinking just guess from the quotes Please don't misinterpret this question, for it is just that - a question. I have no idea what the NYMR may be planning though looking at what lies south of the current 'end of the line' I do find it difficult to imagine how they could thread the railway through a main road, a river, a car park and various newly erected buildings to go further south. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 i really dont want to make an arguement or disagreement of any sort, but i know that you dont know what theyre doing either, and i just had the same idea as james and i wanted to use quotes instead. now can we please get back to the roof. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 Well we've had an ex-LMS black 5 under the roof and a BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0, so here's another picture guaranteed to stir the emotions or raise the hackles. This one is of the ex Southern Railway S15, taken yesterday afternoon April 6th. So only representative(s) of the LNER and GWR still to travel under the roof as yet; I wonder which will get there first? Incidentally, a large pile of signal box bits has appeared at the southern end of Platform 2; stuff like bits of lever frame and levers. Could be that the signal box resurection is about to begin. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 I did nip into Pickering Station, last Friday afternoon, April 15th just to see if there was anything worth photographing which had not already been photographed. The station roof is now almost complete with the last of the tiles and ridge tiles now being added. Just as I was admiring the work on the roof, a train did arrive from Grosmont, headed by 9F 92214. I'm perhaps not the greatest fan of the BR standards but these locomotives would have to be excepted from that, for they are massively impressive. It really is strange how the whole air of Pickering Station has now changed with the new roof; it seems a much larger place. Hopefully I'll see you all when we start up the Pickering Signal Box and Grosmont Signal Bridge threads when those projects really get under way. So I'll leave this with a photo of a mighty locomotive under the new roof on Pickering Station, on a quite splendid early Spring afternoon. Isn't this what the thousands of visitors come to see and isn't this how we would choose to remember these great engines. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 My lords!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the penguin of doom Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Yoinks! Didn't think that one worked anymore. How longs it been stood in the sidings at Grosmont?..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I don't believe it does work any more : it has moved to the South Devon Railway where they reckon it will take four years to restore it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mod5 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I don't believe it does work any more : it has moved to the South Devon Railway where they reckon it will take four years to restore it Really! http://www.nymrdiesel.co.uk/index.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigwelsh Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Really! http://www.nymrdiesel.co.uk/index.htm Do you think it will be quicker/slower than 4 years? It does look knackered on the outside at the moment so the cosmetic overhaul will take a while nevermind mechanical: At Buckfastleigh now apparently. http://www.southdevonrailwayassociation.org/News-and-Press-Releases/D7541_Arrival.html I'll have to pop over to the NYMR sometime, never been there.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mod5 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I stand corrected and obviously South Devon have a quicker web page updater than NYMR. NYMR is well worth a visit though not just for the railway but the stunning countryside that it is in as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I would love to see them get 7541 running in 3 years, both cabs floor need replacement and IIRC the cabs have to come off to do it properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 This is a nice roof. That 25 looks a bit like one of the weathering jobs done by one of the folks from Hull! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
english electric Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 that class 25 is in a well bad state, cab floors if you look from the bogie upwards you see the cab roof, and in side the engine room theres a hell of a lot of rust n rot where the water has run in from where the turboswould be and they are missing and over years its stood out of use, the loco was stopped in 1998 pending overhaul. i dont see them completing the restoration in 4 years due to the amount of work its gonna take the station roof is well nice tho Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted April 23, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2011 wow, what a difference that roof makes. not been to the NYMR for about 30 years, must get up there soon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 We popped up to Pickering for lunch today as it was my first Saturday off in ages! The roof, although with some minor snagging work still ongoing by the looks of it, is delightful! Much lighter inside than I was expecting! GT Andrews obviously knew his stuff! We had a little boy with us who loved watching the locos and spent the day making whistle type noises! Even being a few feet away from 80135 didn't seem to phase him! Though I was getting sick of the numbers of middle aged men shoving people out of the way all take idnetical photographs! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed-farms Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Even being a few feet away from 80135 didn't seem to phase him! I assume you mean 80072. 80135 is in the workshop awaiting a major overhaul. 80072 has come up specially for the gala to run as the one time Whitby engines 80116-80120. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I assume you mean 80072. Assume away! The exact loco doesn't actualy matter in the context I was using it in here does it? I was making the point my little boy was, it seemed, more than happy in the company of steam locomotives! That's a shame though - I don't keep up with a lot of the preservation scene. So it means 80135 will re-appear in that hideously inaccurate green. I did wonder with the temporary number on the bunker and WR lamp irons. But why not run as one of the Whitby all the time while its the 175 gala? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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