Peterborough North

[great northern]

This is what is behind the tender on the 5.18 Leeds. An interesting mixture?

Despite there being no less than four brake cars in the formation, there are only two portions, the front nine for Leeds, and the rest for Bradford. I surmise that this may be because it is formed of the Up Ripon which had only arrived at KX at 4.32, and been sent out from the platform, as happened quite a lot on Saturdays.

 

No photoshopping, partly because I didn't fancy doing the same thing seven times, but also as the background shows what I have to contend with at this time of Year.

 

[great northern]

Abbotsford now resting and waiting for the signal to leave. 

The 4.35 slow from KX is arriving at Platform 6, where it will terminate.

If it can't be made to look right in colour, try black and white. Which doesn't really work either.

[thegreenhowards]

Nice to see the Gresley and Thompson SKs in the Leeds rake. Is that exactly as per WTT, or a bit of artistic licence?

 

Andy

[great northern]

Next we have a Welwyn Garden City to Colwick Class D, headed by a Colwick B1. I have a photo of this loco on the Up train in New England yards, but I've never been able to work out whether it is arriving or leaving. My WTT shows just about all such trains changing engines, but I now have a log from David Percival which shows that on the afternoon of 20/8/58 the Down train had a Colwick engine as it passed Langley Junction. It was a K3 rather than a B1, but a precedent nevertheless, and I have now managed to find a few more images to back it up, so Colwick haulage it shall be.

A day with plenty of glare through the windows but also a need for lights on resulted in this. The next one is a bit better.

 

[great northern]

29 minutes ago, thegreenhowards said:

Nice to see the Gresley and Thompson SKs in the Leeds rake. Is that exactly as per WTT, or a bit of artistic licence?

 

Andy

Cars as per WTT, but my choice of catering, as I have that very nice Thompson RSP which requires employment.  The WTT doesn't say it was a Thompson, but doesn't say it wasn't either. 

[great northern]

I've noticed recently that we tend to have periods when one class of loco will suddenly dominate things, and it is happening again now, as it is one B1 after another. Tonight's first iamge is 61177 again...

But it was followed in by 61074 with the 4.35 stopper from KX.

[geoff west]

Nothing wrong with a B1, or two.

[great northern]

1 minute ago, geoff west said:

Nothing wrong with a B1, or two.

There's another to come.

[New Haven Neil]

Didn't notice a B1, but saw an N5....... 😇

[trw1089]

I do like me a B1 or 3 (though I have 5 now, is that too many?)

[great northern]

Another B1, another returning train from Skeggy to KX, and a heavy load, almost all SKs.

A ten minute stop, and an engine change took place. The replacement V2 is in the bay.

[great northern]

12 hours ago, trw1089 said:

I do like me a B1 or 3 (though I have 5 now, is that too many?)

Not at all. Loads of them running between Doncaster and Leeds, goods as well as passenger.

[great northern]

V2 60803 has now backed on to the Grimsby.

and while it waits, Heaton A3 Book Law heads back to Newcastle with the 5.40 from KX.

 

That ends a set of pictures taken on a gloomy day, none of which really satisfy me at all. Needs must though.

[great northern]

The evening Dringhouses fitted goods has a York V2 this evening.

as it comes to a halt at signals, a DMU arrives from Grantham. Someone must have found a new elastic band, or whatever else is needed to make them work.

 

[New Haven Neil]

I do like a V2.  I'm a bit meh about A3's, unless in late form with smoke deflectors and double chimney (ducks) but V2's to me look such a balanced design. The handful of double chimney ones were even better.

[great northern]

The V2 waits, while an Ivatt arrives from South Lynn. The Ivatt having passed by, the V2 is revealed again.

Don't mention the lamp.

 

 

[30368]

Really like the close up of 60961's motion which shows the care taken with the weathering.

 

It reminds me a bit of the pictures that I took with my Brownie 127 back in the 1950/60s. All a bit out of focus, no criticism intended, just a bit of reflective nostalgia!

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[great northern]

Having finished its journey, the Ivatt is confronted by another V2, an even dirtier one, with the 5.52 KX-Leeds and Bradford.

The V2 isn't stopping, and now passes the DMU, which has moved across to the far end of Platform 6, whence it will return to Grantham , but  not for another 45 minutes.

 

[New Haven Neil]

Due to my relative youth (!) I can't recall seeing a V2, but the rattling windows and vibration of the DMU are a strong memory!  Hated them at the time, now find them strangely interesting.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Due to my relative youth (!) I can't recall seeing a V2, but the rattling windows and vibration of the DMU are a strong memory!  Hated them at the time, now find them strangely interesting.

Oh dear! Two posts which are a slight cause for concern. A3s desecrated with foreign protrusions, V2s better with double chimneys! DMUs strangely interesting! I think a little therapy may be needed, perhaps just an hour or two gazing at photos of A3s in their beautiful and incomparable original form. Plenty on here if you scroll back a little.

 

Nothing to worry about really though, your liking for V2s shows you are at least at the beginning of the path to righteousness. I did think about a little anti DMU therapy, but on second thoughts not, as it might upset Clive.

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Oh dear! Two posts which are a slight cause for concern. A3s desecrated with foreign protrusions, V2s better with double chimneys! DMUs strangely interesting! I think a little therapy may be needed, perhaps just an hour or two gazing at photos of A3s in their beautiful and incomparable original form. Plenty on here if you scroll back a little.

 

Nothing to worry about really though, your liking for V2s shows you are at least at the beginning of the path to righteousness. I did think about a little anti DMU therapy, but on second thoughts not, as it might upset Clive.

Anti DMU therapy? No idea what you mean. I can hear that Cravens trying to disassemble itself, none did in 30 years of service.

 

Something that always puzzles me is the batch used on the Kings Cross suburban services were said to have been built for the M&GNJR. Why were they built with LT trip-cock gear if they were intended to doss around in Norfolk?

[New Haven Neil]

8 hours ago, great northern said:

Oh dear! Two posts which are a slight cause for concern. A3s desecrated with foreign protrusions, V2s better with double chimneys! DMUs strangely interesting! I think a little therapy may be needed, perhaps just an hour or two gazing at photos of A3s in their beautiful and incomparable original form. Plenty on here if you scroll back a little.

 

Nothing to worry about really though, your liking for V2s shows you are at least at the beginning of the path to righteousness. I did think about a little anti DMU therapy, but on second thoughts not, as it might upset Clive.

 

I'm sure a trip down memory lane down the South Shields branch in a Met-Cam (101 to the young) would restore my loathing of the genre!  The GT versions of the A3's though, will remain my favourites, 60100 in particular.  A GN tender would make it even better, but she didn't tow one.

 

Now, about those funny B17's with too-big wheels stolen off a passing A4.....😱

[31A]

8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

 

Something that always puzzles me is the batch used on the Kings Cross suburban services were said to have been built for the M&GNJR. Why were they built with LT trip-cock gear if they were intended to doss around in Norfolk?

Because it was decided to close the M&GN while the units were being built, and so they had trip cock gear added for the GN before they were delivered?

[great northern]

8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Anti DMU therapy? No idea what you mean. I can hear that Cravens trying to disassemble itself, none did in 30 years of service.

 

Something that always puzzles me is the batch used on the Kings Cross suburban services were said to have been built for the M&GNJR. Why were they built with LT trip-cock gear if they were intended to doss around in Norfolk?

I can only assume that the decision to close the M&GN was made before building had commenced.

[great northern]

Another look at a disreputable V2.

Strange, somehow there has been a warping of the space/time continuum. The 5.23 stopper from KX was due next, but Top shed had run out of locos again. It seems to have taken several months to sort it out, as this is what appeared.

One can imagine the conversation. "Send one of these as far as Peterborough, you must be mad!" "Oh come on, its only five coaches for goodness sake, even one of these should manage that". And it seems that it did. Actually, it is true that this was the last available loco in the KX box, so I had to make something up, didn't !?