Peterborough North

[60027Merlin]

Gilbert,

 

60090 still clean and back in work with the glamour boys after it's visit down south!

 

(Hope you don't mind the posting on here)

 

Eric

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

Gilbert,

 

60090 still clean and back in work with the glamour boys after it's visit down south!

 

(Hope you don't mind the posting on here)

 

Eric

 

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Not at all Eric, good to see it on home ground, among all those other fabled beasties. Cicero, what was that about, never saw it down here.

[great northern]

Yet another photographer, our man in the bushes, captures 60090 from distance, but still shining bright.

and for once I am entirely satisfied with my efforts.

[manna]

Yet another photographer, our man in the bushes, captures 60090 from distance, but still shining bright.

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and for once I am entirely satisfied with my efforts.

G'day Gents

 

At last, only taken 558 pages. LOL

 

manna

[great northern]

G'day Gents

 

At last, only taken 558 pages. LOL

 

manna

OK, I suppose I asked for that, didn't I?

[westerner]

Yet another photographer, our man in the bushes, captures 60090 from distance, but still shining bright.

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and for once I am entirely satisfied with my efforts.

And so you should be. A lovely photo.

[great northern]

I took two photos of 60090 from the bushes, meaning to choose one and discard the other. However, they both came out well, so here is a somewhat closer view as the A3 pulls away.

and I left this one unshopped for those who prefer them that way. I couldn't resist one more close up either.

[great northern]

60090 has left, and the next arrival is rather more mundane. A Leicester - East slow calls legitimately at Platform 2, and is seen just before it gets there in a view from the Disrtict Engineer's yard.

It is almost impossible to photograph an engine without a water crane appearing to grow out of it.

[Market65]

But that's just how photo's were back then, for there were plenty of water cranes, and, although I can't show it here for copyright reasons, there is a good example of a crane growing out of B1 61306 at Beverley station in early 1965. Please carry on taking those superb photo's and don't worry about the cranes.

 

With best regards,

 

Rob.

[great northern]

But that's just how photo's were back then, for there were plenty of water cranes, and, although I can't show it here for copyright reasons, there is a good example of a crane growing out of B1 61306 at Beverley station in early 1965. Please carry on taking those superb photo's and don't worry about the cranes.

 

With best regards,

 

Rob.

I think it is a throwback to when Coachmann used to appear on here. He was always telling me off for things like that.

[great northern]

The next arrival is the 4.19pm from KX, diagrammed for a B1, which would be quite capable of handling any of these slow trains.

I have to admit that the lack of photoshopping detracts little or at all from this shot. Then I took a shot from the other side of the bridge.

and I finished up cropping it really close because it occurred to me that the GN heritage shines through even on a loco designed a quarter of a century after the company ceased to exist. I think this portriat brings that out well. It also, of course, has a water crane wrapping itself lovingly around the front of the loco. Have you identified my next fixation yet?

[Oldddudders]

I think it is a throwback to when Coachmann used to appear on here. He was always telling me off for things like that.

Artistically such things are a pain. Peter Coster makes the same complaint about one of his own pictures, almost certainly at Halwill Junction, with a telegraph pole rising above a steam loco's boiler. But when you take pictures in an industrial landscape like the railway such things are gonna happen. And the model snapper's plight, on a layout where compression brings everything into closer juxtaposition - is there any other sort? - is no less irksome.

[stewartingram]

When I got my first SLR camera, I joined the camera club at the factory I worked at, thinking I might learn something. To start off the venture, the club held an informal completion. My entry was heavily criticized because of the inclusion of signals. I gave up the club after that.

The pic is enclosed - with some damage evident on the slide.

 

Stewart

 

[sp1]

When I got my first SLR camera, I joined the camera club at the factory I worked at, thinking I might learn something. To start off the venture, the club held an informal completion. My entry was heavily criticized because of the inclusion of signals. I gave up the club after that.

The pic is enclosed - with some damage evident on the slide.

 

Stewart

 

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That's a fantastic picture (from a steam era fan!) and would make a great Christmas Card! - I'm sure someone used to using Photoshop could easily sort out the damage

[Timara]

Coming slightly late to the party regarding clean A3s, one of PN's fleet has been in for a refresh.  It's got an appointment with some grime from the airbrush next, but here's a view of how the older Hornby green can be brought up to a very nice finish indeed.

 

 

A simple (to me) remedy of T-Cut to burnish the bodywork, followed by a sigle coat of Klear to seal everything in.  Light weathering is all that is required for this one.

 

To see how it looked previously, here's Gilbert's post from a year or three ago.

 

Cheers,

Tim

[landscapes]

That's a fantastic picture (from a steam era fan!) and would make a great Christmas Card! - I'm sure someone used to using Photoshop could easily sort out the damage

 

Hi 

 

I agree nice action photo, I happen to be using Photoshop Elements so I had a quick go removing some of the damage.

 

I hope Gilbert does not mind me posting the new photo.

 

Regards

 

David 

[Oldddudders]

Stewart's pic works for us because it's a smashing action pic of a train in a winter railway-scape. Photography clubs tend to be heavy on composition rather than content, and this doesn't quite tick their boxes re the rule of thirds etc. That doesn't stop us using such rules in our hobby, but action photos always make composition more of a challenge. Now we have DSLRs and other digital cameras, at least we are no longer constrained by the price of film, so taking multiple exposures as the train approaches is now affordable.

 

Take the pics you like and you will probably find we like them too.

[great northern]

Coming slightly late to the party regarding clean A3s, one of PN's fleet has been in for a refresh.  It's got an appointment with some grime from the airbrush next, but here's a view of how the older Hornby green can be brought up to a very nice finish indeed.

 

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A simple (to me) remedy of T-Cut to burnish the bodywork, followed by a sigle coat of Klear to seal everything in.  Light weathering is all that is required for this one.

 

To see how it looked previously, here's Gilbert's post from a year or three ago.

 

Cheers,

Tim

What a transformation!  I just don't want to count how many more there are that need this treatment. They will have to be done though, gradually, because this looks so real, and they don't.

[great northern]

Another B1 picture tonight.

This came out very dark and nearly got binned, but just notching up the brightness made something worthwhile out of it. I seem to be spending most of my life in meetings at present, so anything that i don't have to spend too much time on is welcome.

[davidw]

Coming slightly late to the party regarding clean A3s, one of PN's fleet has been in for a refresh. It's got an appointment with some grime from the airbrush next, but here's a view of how the older Hornby green can be brought up to a very nice finish indeed.

 

60050_L_31812-3a.jpg

 

A simple (to me) remedy of T-Cut to burnish the bodywork, followed by a sigle coat of Klear to seal everything in. Light weathering is all that is required for this one.

 

To see how it looked previously, here's Gilbert's post from a year or three ago.

 

Cheers,

Tim

Stunning absolutely stunning! Makes me want more A3's!

Edited February 8, 2017 by davidw

[rockershovel]

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.

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

One of the best pictures on this thread, very effective indeed...

[great northern]

One more shot of the B1 this morning, taken from the opposite platform.

That overall roof is a very effective frame for photographs. The next arrival was from Cambridge, so something GE was a good possibility.

and we get another 4.6.0, but from an earlier and more elegant era. I was supposed to put a crew in the cab before the B12 appeared again, but as usual, I forgot.

[31A]

I've been having some difficulty finding suitable crew figures for a B12, those splasher boxes take up half the cab!  Makes you wonder how they managed to drive the real ones, and look out of the windows.

[Joseph_Pestell]

I've been having some difficulty finding suitable crew figures for a B12, those splasher boxes take up half the cab!  Makes you wonder how they managed to drive the real ones, and look out of the windows.

Theirs were built to P4 standards.

[Mallard60022]

You could recognise the regular Drivers of B12s at Stratford as they had a distinct stance that was named the B12 bend. 

G. Affer