Peterborough North

[New Haven Neil]

Ah that's what I like, the humdrum daily work of the ordinary trains carrying freight of one sort or another to the masses.  Clanking couplings and buffers, squealing flanges and coal smoke.  You can keep those there fancy passengeer trains..... 😉

[great northern]

I don't think I've tried this before.

Not too bad. Here's the reason the 9F is waiting on the slow. Silver King brings through the Talisman.

 

and the very carefully centred headboard has slipped again.😠

[great northern]

Silver King runs past North box.

and alongside Platform 2.

 

I do hate wonky headboards. They seem to instantly become the centre of attention.

 

[great northern]

9F waiting , for some reason well back from the signal.

But actually of course the reason is that there is no signal at present, as becomes obvious in the next image.

 

[great northern]

A slightly distant head on view of a departing A1.

It does show nearly the whole width of the station baseboard though. And there is a side on close up to follow.

 

[great northern]

The Talisman has accelerated away, so the 9F can now cross back to the Up and on towards Ferme Park.

and another view from a different angle I haven't used before. I think it works now that the bridge extension and Station Road are in place.

 

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

The Talisman has accelerated away, so the 9F can now cross back to the Up and on towards Ferme Park.

and another view from a different angle I haven't used before. I think it works now that the bridge extension and Station Road are in place.

 

That's a splendid new view of Crescent Bridge.

[Clive Mortimore]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

That's a splendid new view of Crescent Bridge.

I tried to improve the look with a nice red bus but..........

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I tried to improve the look with a nice red bus but..........

😏

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I tried to improve the look with a nice red bus but..........

Sneak a Coach on there next time. Greenslades Tours will do.

P

[great northern]

4 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Sneak a Coach on there next time. Greenslades Tours will do.

P

Don't encourage him. The counter measures will only become more severe.

[Clive Mortimore]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

Don't encourage him. The counter measures will only become more severe.

Look what I have ready for our next visitation to Up the Junction.

 

[great northern]

49 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Look what I have ready for our next visitation to Up the Junction.

 

Some good scrap metal merchants round here.

[great northern]

Crescent Bridge still features, but this time on The Down with one of our dirtier local V2s on a Class C to York.

 

[Clive Mortimore]

5 hours ago, great northern said:

Some good scrap metal merchants round here.

No not your train set but the Duck's Seaton Junction......the wrong Seaton Junction cos the real one is in Rutland and saw GNR trains going to Peterbrough North from Leicester Belgrave Road.

[great northern]

Following the progress of the V2 this bright fine morning.

 

Must get on, Peter Leyland here soon.

[great northern]

Another V2 next, Green Arrow herself, with the Delaval Sidings- Holloway ECS. I have read recently that this was more a parcels train, so the stock has been adjusted accordingly.

 

 

[jazzer]

On 14/08/2023 at 19:45, great northern said:

Last look at the K2....

to be followed a few minutes later by a WD on the way to Ferme Park.

 

Gilbert I’ve no idea what makes a great photo but last shot of the K2 and the picture of Sir Walter Scott in the bay have absolute captured my imagination for no particular reason. I spent a long time looking at the K2 and could almost hear the clanking of the rods a rattling of the wagons as it rattled through. A lovely atmospheric shot from an angle our intrepid photographer should be encouraged to try again.  
Sir Walter Scott - well that picture from that angle really sums up everything a thousand words could say in praise of the high point of ECML steam. Two great pictures. 

[great northern]

On comes 60800, with all those lovely lattices in the background.

and from the south one of 34As few remaining single chimney A4s, Gannet with the 8.05 FO KX-Newcastle.

 

[great northern]

13 hours ago, jazzer said:

Gilbert I’ve no idea what makes a great photo but last shot of the K2 and the picture of Sir Walter Scott in the bay have absolute captured my imagination for no particular reason. I spent a long time looking at the K2 and could almost hear the clanking of the rods a rattling of the wagons as it rattled through. A lovely atmospheric shot from an angle our intrepid photographer should be encouraged to try again.  
Sir Walter Scott - well that picture from that angle really sums up everything a thousand words could say in praise of the high point of ECML steam. Two great pictures. 

I've not much idea what makes a great photo either! Different things to different people, I suspect. Occasionally I take a photo and look at it once I've processed it and have a wow moment, but what differs it from others taken almost from the same angle which have no wow factor, I have no idea.

[great northern]

Probably the last visit this year of Peter Leyland, and once again work was concentrated on the Station Road/Cowgate area. We have little information, what we do have is conflicting, and we are working on a rectangle when the whole thing should be on an angle. Thus we really just have to use our imagination and try to do what looks right.

 

What to do with the area under the bridge girders on the extension was a problem. I didn't like the effect of being able to see through it, so we walled up Mr slightly posh person's garden. Plans appear to show buildings of some kind on the Cowgate side, but we had no clue as to what they were, so in the end we decided that there should be a business of some kind using the area under the bridge, with the frontage flush as often seen under viaducts.

and here it is. There will be a sign at the top, hiding the slight gap, and now I need to find a name for the business. Any suggestions.

 

All the plans do show the footpath emerging from under the bridge ending in this slightly strange way, so that's what we did.

 

A slightly closer view, which shows there is some fettling to be done, and that more detail should be added. I will attend to that.

 

The rest of the footpath under the bridge has been added, but needs to be finished off, and it does make this view look a good deal better.

and there is now an elderly couple walking arm in arm towards the station, kindly painted for me by Phil. It'll take them a while though, as they are superglued down.

 

and finally what is almost certainly the last bit of the layout to be filled in.

 

We don't have much idea what to do with this at the moment.

 

 

 

[great northern]

Gannet emerges from beneath the bridge.

and we shall see what stock it is hauling. 

There you are. BSK each end, and eight end vestibule seconds. No first class and no catering, but no MK1s either.

[Mallard60022]

Cowgate Crescent Bridge Agricultural Engineering Supplies Ltd. Peterboro XXXXX

P

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

Cowgate Crescent Bridge Agricultural Engineering Supplies Ltd. Peterboro XXXXX

P

Nope, too long to fit on the board, I've measured it.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

How about, 'Speedy & Sloth' Glue makers.

 

manna