RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 23 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 23 From under the bridge appears a slightly askew Fair Maid. She will not be stopping here, and heads on towards canopy. No need really to warn passengers to stand well back from the edge of the platform. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 23 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 23 Pretty Polly heads on purposefully. and meets another named train, the West Riding, with Copley Hill's Osprey in charge. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 24 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 24 Rationing returns, as there has been little sign of sun this week, or not at useful times anyway. Here is Osprey, seen from Crescent Bridge, moving the West Riding on towards the capital. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 24 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 24 Hastily we return to the North end, as the K2 is starting its journey to Grimsby. Another visit from Clive today. No bus controversy, and I was tasked with helping with information regarding A3 tenders. There is hope for him yet. Much discussion of events, some more serious than others, and although he had declared in advance that he intended to see some trains run, he didn't.😁 31 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 25 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 25 Now we have the arrival of an Up Skegness-KX, shown in the WTT as stopping for six minutes from 1059 to 1105. With the pressure on this sole Up plaqtform on a saturday, I am pretty sure a stop of this length would involve an engine change. Thus we have one of our own B1s handing over to one of our own A2/3s. The standard running time from here to KX on Saturday was 90 minutes, so Top Shed would be very pleased to have a Pacific available at that time of the day when it struggled to have anything suitable for northbound departures. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 25 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 25 Some useful sunshine at last, so more photos taken, and we go back to normal rations, which this evening means a look at Sun Castle, which has now replaced the B1, and is ready for the off. and soon afterwards, it is off. 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 26 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 26 Something coming on the Down slow. Doesn't tell us much, does it? Perhaps this will help. The Little Barford empties, which runs much earlier on a Saturday, which didn't stop another loco being borrowed for the job. 27 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26 My Ian Allan suggests this is an O4/2? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 26 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26 45 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: My Ian Allan suggests this is an O4/2? 63890 was converted to 01 in 1948 Ian, according to the RCTS green book, and my 1958 Ian Allan agrees. Timara actually based this one on a colour photo of it at March in the late 50s, so I'm pretty confident it is right. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 26 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 26 The 01 is out of the way on the slow, and hopefully has not delayed the 9.40 KX-Newcastle, which appears beyond the bridge. A little further along, the A4 can be seen to be Sir Ronald Matthews, in normal Gateshead condition. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 27 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 27 Slow progress under the roof for 60001. but soon back out into the light. 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted May 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27 Gilbert, The shot of the A4 under the station roof is one of the best at that spot. I think that it is the light streaming through the glass in the roof that sets it of. Eric 2 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 27 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 27 And now back up onto Spital Bridge for our last look at 60001. While our attention has been elsewhere, our disgustingly dirty A2/1 has been down to Nene sidings, and brought in its own stock for the 1130 Edinburgh. 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 28 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 28 The stream of Down expresses is really under way now. Between 9and 10am there were four departures from KX, and here comes the last of them, the 9.52 Leeds. 60983 is one of Top Shed's pet V2s, and will need to be going well, as the Flying Scotsman is just eight minutes behind it. 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 28 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 28 60983 does not stop here either, so we get our usual north end images. 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted May 28 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28 Yon V2 has a lovely look, presumably a Timara job. Really does look like a used but well cared for loco, and of course it's hard to beat a V2! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 29 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 29 As the V2's stock passed by, our man saw this, and as he likes Gresley shorties, he took a photo. Meanwhile on the Down slow, space has been found to get a J6 up from East with a trip working to New England, 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 29 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 29 Lots of V2s at the start of the day, then none for quite a while, but now they are back. Green Arrow has an Up Hull due through non stop at 11.15am, and we have two familiar north end views. 36 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 30 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30 Another angle on Green Arrow heading on to London. Just four minutes later another traon on theUp, this time an M&GN service from Yarmouth. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted May 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 30 Loving the V2s at the moment. How many non-stops were there through PN? Elizabethan, Flying Scotsman I presume, but what about the Pullmans? I must dig out my WTTs again and pore through I think. Cheers Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 30 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 1 hour ago, trw1089 said: Loving the V2s at the moment. How many non-stops were there through PN? Elizabethan, Flying Scotsman I presume, but what about the Pullmans? I must dig out my WTTs again and pore through I think. Cheers Tony That was something I could not resist Tony. Summer 58, Saturday Down expresses only, 38 of 62 stopped. However, if one takes out Skegness trains, the proportion is quite a bit lower. None of the Pullmans stopped at PN, weekdays or Saturdays, but the mix of other trains is interesting, as both West Riding and Newcastle services stopped in about equal proportion, whereas the general rule of thumb was that the West Riding trains stopped at the smaller stations such as Newark and Retford, whereas the ECML ones stopped at the larger ones. Grantham is an exception, because of the amount of engine changing there. The other interesting thing is that the proportion of trains stopping increases as the day goes on, until by evening most stop. Logical really, as line occupation lessens. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 30 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 Of course I then had to look at Up trains too, of which 21 of 51 stopped. However, if I strip out the E.Lincs trains it gets much less, and if one disregards evening trains, less still. Entirely logical with only one Up platform, of course, but still the trains were usually queuing up to get through. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 30 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30 Suitably admonished, our man took care to properly record the arrival of South Lynn's well cleaned Ivatt 4MT, 43142. while at the south end, Golden Fleece, Top Shed's reserve Elizabethan loco, brings through the Flying Scotsman. Much care was taken to get the headboard exactly positioned, but look at it now. I'd rather you didn't, actually. 25 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 I do admit to a slight bias, anything GE or M&GN gets my vote. Seems an unusual decision to send such modern locos to the M&GN, they did sterling work on the line and were desperately needed. Martyn 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 31 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 31 So these two trains are going to meet, and they do. and shortly after that, Golden Fleece is approachinng Spital Bridge, and the regulator is open. I know people like these north end shots, but they are a pig to photoshop. Nevertheless, more this evening. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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