Peterborough North

[Mallard60022]

5 Go Mad for B17s? 

Enid B.

[great northern]

Getting closer.

[45156]

That's great Gilbert, and does pose the question "Is it real or is it another excellent RMWeb model".

 

Following these first class layouts (yours among them) online is a great privilege, and the owners' generosity in sharing them with us really gives inspiration and hope that one day.....

Edited February 3, 2017 by 45156

[New Haven Neil]

I do really like those views under the roof.  Very....railwaylike.  Must be a Newcastle Central thing, which would be my 'dream' layout apres lottery win.

[great northern]

I do really like those views under the roof.  Very....railwaylike.  Must be a Newcastle Central thing, which would be my 'dream' layout apres lottery win.

I wouldn't envy you that diamond crossing!

[great northern]

Time to explain what is going on at Platform 6. I've shown a B17 running in, but those who have been paying attention will remember that the coaches from the Grantham local were already at that platform. Well both are very short trains, as the B17 has been sent up from East with the shuttle service to avoid a light engine movement. Thus under local permissive rules we find both trains standing at the platform.

Actually it proved very difficult to get both in the same shot without balancing the camera on the raised baseboard edge, which is why this is a bit blurred.

The view in the opposite direction isn't that successful either, but Neil will like the tender close up.

[great northern]

We all have our favourites, don't we? One of mine is a GN 0.6.0, so here are two more photos of 64260 waiting to trundle off to Grantham.

A sunny day, little wind, no frost, so you know where I'm going.

[chaz]

You are not alone in counting the "nick-nacks" as one of your favourites. Checking in my (disintegrating) copy of ABC part 4 I count six of them underlined. I can't say I have a clear memory of any of them - unlike the J15 on a special that I saw with my late father at Stratford Low Level, but I do like them, so more please when you can.

[New Haven Neil]

I wouldn't envy you that diamond crossing!

 

If I have won the lottery, then I am sure it would be Norman Solomon's ultimate challenge!  Iconic, though.  I actually preferred the West end when trainspotting, but I can't say why now.  Too many DMU's at the other end with the North and South Tyneside services, Boro's and Sunderlands, I hated the things back then.  Only the Carlisles at the West, to interfere with Deltic drooling.  Better view of the avoiding lines too.

[trw1089]

A B17 and a J6 in the same shot, must be as close to perfection as is possible I think!

 

Cheers

Tony

[great northern]

You are not alone in counting the "nick-nacks" as one of your favourites. Checking in my (disintegrating) copy of ABC part 4 I count six of them underlined. I can't say I have a clear memory of any of them - unlike the J15 on a special that I saw with my late father at Stratford Low Level, but I do like them, so more please when you can.

Well, the next picture was one of modernisation in action.

though I didn't realise what an unflattering angle on a 350hp shunter this is. But then, being the even handed chap wot I am, I redressed the balance with this.

"GN interlude" is its title.

[great northern]

One more tonight, of GN origin, but with a 100A boiler.

[manna]

G'day Gents

 

GN loco's great.

 

manna

[trw1089]

G'day Gents

 

GN loco's great.

 

manna

GNs on PN, has to be great

[great northern]

OK, here are some more. Well, the same ones actually, but GN still.

and would you like a very nice Gresley CK to go with them?

[great northern]

I will say sorry first, as is it just me or as lovely do the Locos look, should there not be a gloss/shine to at least some of them? looking at colour pics from the time certainly do show grot, but underneath is a glossy shine.  I am not in favour of this over all sub satin finnish that is passed off as "ex works" 

 

I will now hang my head in shame for being heretical. 

 

Pete

Hello Pete,

 

 Here is an illustration that there are some very clean locos on the layout. The train is the 4.40pm Up Doncaster, and that shed has taken the opportunity to do some more running in of Haymarket's ex works and newly double chimney fitted A3 Grand Parade.

This does show what can be done with Hornby's anaemic green, and a slightly less pristine finish will eventually be applied to some more of mine. There is a good chance too that this finish will be preserved on 60090 for some time when Doncaster send it back up North.

[great northern]

I've taken quite a lot more photos today, so we can clear another one from the previous file. 63983 again, Class F to Ferme Park.

[manna]

G'day Gents

 

More GN loco's, Yeeeessssssss.

 

manna

[great northern]

If you could have something beautiful to think of as you settled down to sleep, might this do the trick?

Much better than those scantily clad young women, eh?

[thegreenhowards]

If you could have something beautiful to think of as you settled down to sleep, might this do the trick?

90 2.JPG

Much better than those scantily clad young women, eh?

Love the shine on #90 Gilbert. How was this achieved?

[great northern]

Love the shine on #90 Gilbert. How was this achieved?

I asked John Houlden to use Klear to get this effect. He had never tried it before, and was a bit doubtful, but the result speaks for itself. This would represent a loco as clean as it could ever be, my justification being that I saw it at Retford in August 1958, and it really did shine like this. No doubt that was its first trip since leaving the paint shop, it had travelled only 17 miles, and it was a beautiful day, so there had been no chance really for any dulling of that shine.

 

I have this photo of it at New England, copyright of Andrew C Ingram, which will have been taken within a few days of my sighting.

Still very clean, but with some signs of road dirt building up. I know the loco was used for some time down South from sightings published in magazines and a photo in Peter Coster's Book of the Great Northern, so that's why it appears on PN, and I have allowed myself the pleasure of seeing it in that absolutely pristine state as it was when we got a single peg on the Up main at Retford, and so expected nothing much, but got 60090!

[great northern]

Here is the last view of 63983.

and then another shot of Grand Parade. I'm sure every camera would have been pointed at her in reality, so that's what has happened here.

Standing waiting time, fairly low angle sun coming from the left, ideal shooting conditions really.

 

It seems like yesterday when I realised that it was 50 years since my unforgettable sighting of 60090 at Retford. Now I've realised that next year it will be 60.   How rapidly things once taken for granted become history. All the more important to keep the memories bright. That could be the motto of PN actually.

[thegreenhowards]

I asked John Houlden to use Klear to get this effect. He had never tried it before, and was a bit doubtful, but the result speaks for itself. This would represent a loco as clean as it could ever be, my justification being that I saw it at Retford in August 1958, and it really did shine like this. No doubt that was its first trip since leaving the paint shop, it had travelled only 17 miles, and it was a beautiful day, so there had been no chance really for any dulling of that shine.

 

I have this photo of it at New England, copyright of Andrew C Ingram, which will have been taken within a few days of my sighting.

60090 001.jpg

Still very clean, but with some signs of road dirt building up. I know the loco was used for some time down South from sightings published in magazines and a photo in Peter Coster's Book of the Great Northern, so that's why it appears on PN, and I have allowed myself the pleasure of seeing it in that absolutely pristine state as it was when we got a single peg on the Up main at Retford, and so expected nothing much, but got 60090!

It looks great, and I've been meaning to try the Klear treatment. Do you know whether he brushed it or sprayed it on?

[60027Merlin]

Hello Pete,

 

 Here is an illustration that there are some very clean locos on the layout. The train is the 4.40pm Up Doncaster, and that shed has taken the opportunity to do some more running in of Haymarket's ex works and newly double chimney fitted A3 Grand Parade.

90 1.JPG

This does show what can be done with Hornby's anaemic green, and a slightly less pristine finish will eventually be applied to some more of mine. There is a good chance too that this finish will be preserved on 60090 for some time when Doncaster send it back up North.

 

Lovely pictures Gilbert. I can confirm that 64B maintained the finish!

 

Eric

[great northern]

It looks great, and I've been meaning to try the Klear treatment. Do you know whether he brushed it or sprayed it on?

 I believe he brushed it, and I know that Tim Easter has done so on other locos that he has improved for me. I might even have a go myself, after Tim has given me a tutorial.