Peterborough North

[great northern]

33 minutes ago, drmditch said:

Ignoring omnibuses, now this thread has reached Page No. 1500 shouldn't a GER Locomotive be featured?

I agree, but it will be another 4 hours into the sequence before a suitable working comes up.

[great northern]

51 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Unless I get banned from the next gang visit you wish will come true.

Name the bus company I might have one in that livery. A Wigan Corporation PD2?

I'm sure I've already told you. Lincoln Corporation Leyland, fleet number 61, as running in mid 50s. Simples.

[great northern]

2 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

That photo is going to be very useful in any attempt to create, (not using parts of this photo of course), that scenic back-sheet, for views through/under the Bridge Gilbert. Especially that on the right; easy peasy as they say in the Navy. Mostly Sky beyond the Box and what looks like more Trees? I know your curve is tighter but that view does create a look of depth/distance. 

Phik

It is such a foul day that even I am not idiot enough to go out walking, so I thought I'd see what I can do recreate that image. I don't know how to put it on here, but even with much messing about this was as near as I could get.

 

The photographer will have been able to get much closer to the edge of the platform than I can get my camera, but even so this shows just how compromised the layout has to be, so in the end I don't think it gets us much further.

[great northern]

Her's 60514 again, taken during its four minute stop.

and as it pulled away, yet another train to pass that waiting WD.

[New Haven Neil]

Buses - hate 'em.  This is how we treat them here....

 

 

PS: Nobody hurt.

 

Apols for clogging the thread, Gilbert.

[great northern]

Sheer coincidence that the B1 on the Grimsby-KX is the same one as on the prototype image above, and here it is on its way to London.

[great northern]

Tonight features Sir Ronald Matthews, in typical Gateshead condition. reversing along the engine road.

I don't know what Sir Ron did to upset the cleaners, but I have seen hardly any photos of it in anything like clean condition, and some were a lot worse than is shown above.

[Anthony]

Congratulations on 1,500 pages!

[trw1089]

I noted Phil's discussion around a backdrop for the other side of Crescent Bridge.  A whiles ago, with Gilbert's input, I played around with this one for the Spital Bridge end.  It was based on a couple of photos of the skyline taken from the end of the platform and shows the Baker Perkins building in the further distance with the profile of the building roofs in the foreground.  Given the colourising things now available on the web, the original pic could probably be coloured more to add some more texture and contrast  to the foreground buildings in the backdrop, but then this might draw the eye away from the layout too much.  I seem to remember we decided that it probably wasn't really going to add anything to the bridge end of the scene but Gilbert might have better recollections of why it didn't go further.

 

Cheers

Tony

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

On 04/12/2023 at 10:59, Clive Mortimore said:

Unless I get banned from the next gang visit you wish will come true.

Name the bus company I might have one in that livery. A Wigan Corporation PD2?

Now our Gilbert has stated that City of Lincoln number 61 will be the only bus allowed.

 

Over the past couple of days I have been doing some research and number 61 was a pre war TD5 with Leyland body work. Having tried to alter a drawing of a post war PD 2 with Leyland bodywork I realised that the EFE PD2 is quite close to a TD5 in looks, just some small details that need changing. Rummaging in my box of buses I have a surplus Wigan Corporation PD2.

[great northern]

The next northbound express brings Scottish Union, on its way home with the 1.52 KX-Doncaster.

[New Haven Neil]

Oh I do rather like those last two, although the photographer may be in some danger in the first unless they hop it pronto!

[great northern]

15 hours ago, trw1089 said:

I noted Phil's discussion around a backdrop for the other side of Crescent Bridge.  A whiles ago, with Gilbert's input, I played around with this one for the Spital Bridge end.  It was based on a couple of photos of the skyline taken from the end of the platform and shows the Baker Perkins building in the further distance with the profile of the building roofs in the foreground.  Given the colourising things now available on the web, the original pic could probably be coloured more to add some more texture and contrast  to the foreground buildings in the backdrop, but then this might draw the eye away from the layout too much.  I seem to remember we decided that it probably wasn't really going to add anything to the bridge end of the scene but Gilbert might have better recollections of why it didn't go further.

 

Cheers

Tony

 

 

I think it was more because when Andy Y and I tried  mocking up something very much like this along the wall, we found that it really only looked right from one angle. From anywhere else, unfortunately it wasn't very convincing.

[great northern]

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Oh I do rather like those last two, although the photographer may be in some danger in the first unless they hop it pronto!

A bit of artistic licence is sometimes permitted Neil. The camera is, of course, much more bulky than a 4mm person, so I argue that I can take that into account when positioning it. I accept though that with this one I'm taking it to extremes.

[New Haven Neil]

2 minutes ago, great northern said:

A bit of artistic licence is sometimes permitted Neil. The camera is, of course, much more bulky than a 4mm person, so I argue that I can take that into account when positioning it. I accept though that with this one I'm taking it to extremes.

 

Oh indeed - it was very much tongue in cheek, but I loved both of those shots, that corner of the layout always throws something up for me - the lane on the other side of the track for instance.  Funny that you didn't even intend for it to be scenic originally, and the curve etc, but it just has a lot of interest in it.

[Mallard60022]

2 hours ago, great northern said:

I think it was more because when Andy Y and I tried  mocking up something very much like this along the wall, we found that it really only looked right from one angle. From anywhere else, unfortunately it wasn't very convincing.

 

That's a great attempt. Hey ho, I hadn't realised that you'd gone to those lengths.

I wish I had those skills on a P.C.

One thing I have decided though, (due to this advice), about pics on my layout (one day in the very distant future), as it's Summer all the time in the scenic sections, any pics of something that would have been a winter event such as Diversions due to flooding (December ish 1960/I, I shall do in Black and White and lose the many Trees as far as possible.

Not the case here of course as Gilbert is strictly Summer all the time and there's only a few Trees. However, he could air-brush out the No 61!

P

[Mallard60022]

On 04/12/2023 at 19:02, New Haven Neil said:

Buses - hate 'em.  This is how we treat them here....

 

 

PS: Nobody hurt.

 

Apols for clogging the thread, Gilbert.

 

On 04/12/2023 at 19:02, New Haven Neil said:

Buses - hate 'em.  This is how we treat them here....

 

 

PS: Nobody hurt.

 

Apols for clogging the thread, Gilbert.

 

On 04/12/2023 at 19:02, New Haven Neil said:

Buses - hate 'em.  This is how we treat them here....

 

 

PS: Nobody hurt.

 

Apols for clogging the thread, Gilbert.

Can't park there mate.

P

[Tim Dubya]

31 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

I wish I had those skills on a P.C.

 

Yes but you do have exceptional un-P.C. skills 😜

[great northern]

Scottish Union runs past the stock in number 1 bay.

and once the express has moved on into the station, we can see that our lovely valanced D16 has backed on to its two coaches.

Those two Kirk coaches are actually my own work, done about 35 years ago, when my eyes worked rather better in coordination with my hands, and before several fingers turned into thumbs.

[Oldddudders]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Those two Kirk coaches are actually my own work, done about 35 years ago, when my eyes worked rather better in coordination with my hands, and before several fingers turned into thumbs.

Sadly, Scottish Union's lamps bear witness....

[great northern]

Two more views of a waiting A1 this wet morning, with Sir Ron just getting a look in too. He isn't taking over this train though.

 

[great northern]

A very pleasant day with Andy, The Green Howards, who has taken some vidoe, which he will share in due course. Surprisingly, the trains behaved almost faultlessly throughout, and there were quite a few of them.

 

Back to the sequence, and still with Scottish Union, which has now resumed its journey to Doncaster.

 

 

[great northern]

On 06/12/2023 at 19:54, Oldddudders said:

Sadly, Scottish Union's lamps bear witness....

That's bl**dy blac tac Ian, not me. I took great trouble to get those lamps just right, but the stuff sometimes just grabs them and does things like this. I think one needs just a very small amount, but it has to in exactly the right place. I've got some of West Hill Wagon works recently issued ones, which are pre drilled, and look very nice. First impression though is that they are so small that they won't fit over RTR brackets. I hope I'm proved wrong.

[thegreenhowards]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

A very pleasant day with Andy, The Green Howards, who has taken some vidoe, which he will share in due course. Surprisingly, the trains behaved almost faultlessly throughout, and there were quite a few of them.

 

Thanks for your hospitality Gilbert. A very pleasant day with plenty of chat, quite a few trains run and hopefully some decent video. That will have to wait though as I had a 3.5 hour drive home in the rain and then an evening at my club packing up our exhibition layout for Sunday. Off to bed shortly!

 

Andy

[great northern]

Nice morning...sunny so far. Two 9F shots, neither of which I think really succeed, particularly the second one, but I leave you to decide.