Peterborough North

[JamieR4489]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Still one more to go.

Sandy?

[great northern]

1 hour ago, JamieR4489 said:

Sandy?

Gold star for you.👍

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, JamieR4489 said:

Sandy?

The Bedford and Cambridge Railway, not the usurper the Great Northern Railway? 

[31A]

13 hours ago, great northern said:

Where else could an A4 and a D16 be seen together in the 1950s? Not a lot of places, but there are one or two.

 

Bit late to this having been out for the day.  I was tempted to say Newark Flat Crossing, but on reflection there would have been something seriously wrong if you'd been able to see both types there together!

 

[KNP]

 

[great northern]

Here is our Claud again, now ready for the short trip home to March, just perfect for an elderly lady.

It is soon followed by Grantham A3 Isinglass, which has arrived from its home town with a five set that has stopped at most of the intermediate stations on the way. Where it goes from here is a matter of conjecture. The WTT says that after a five minute stop it runs to KX, stopping at most of the stations on the way. That makes sense, as there hasn't been a train serving these places for hours.

 

The CWN however says that the train terminated at Peterborough! Just the normal slow local one would expect at this time of day. I think the continuation to KX is more likely, so that is where Isinglass will go. Official documents contradicting each other, whatever next?

[great northern]

Isinglass is waiting for a heated discussion to end. Is it going on shed, or is it off to London?

And now another controversial train heads north, D201 with yet another Newcastle relief. This one is shown as running as required at 3.52pm.

[KNP]

Last few of Station Road

 

 

[great northern]

D201 runs on through, though this may be a ghost train. Explanation for that follows in a while.

Our man on the bridge above Station Road then tries this shot of 60063 as it starts away to London.

Not sure if this is worth the effort. Comments appreciated.

[Clive Mortimore]

15 hours ago, great northern said:

Isinglass is waiting for a heated discussion to end. Is it going on shed, or is it off to London?

And now another controversial train heads north, D201 with yet another Newcastle relief. This one is shown as running as required at 3.52pm.

Nothing controversial about a 2000. Loverly machines.

 

 

[31A]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Not sure if this is worth the effort.

 

A nice viewpoint but a pity you chopped off the loco's buffer beam!

[great northern]

More of departing 60063. A nice rear three quarter.

 

And the view from the bridge.

[KNP]

 

[great northern]

Isinglass from beyond and below the bridge. I'm not a great fan of head on shots, but I did like the background to this.

 

Once again, won't let me put text below the first image, but posts the second without being asked so to do. So, here we have the 3.52 KX-Cleethorpes, with a very shabby Immingham B1, and slowing for the stop. Then things got a bit complicated, but more of that later.

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[thegreenhowards]

D16s occasionally worked on the Cambridge - KX circuit in the early ‘50s, so anywhere south of Hitchin would be possible to see an A4 and D16 together. Probably not by your timeframe of 1958 though.

[great northern]

On 18/09/2024 at 10:21, 31A said:

 

A nice viewpoint but a pity you chopped off the loco's buffer beam!

Well, yes but I did move the loco back so that it didn't have a water column growing out of it, and the viewing screen isn't very big, and it was at an awkward angle.

[great northern]

Reverse angle on B1 and Ivatt. Its about now that an inconvenient though creeps in. You see, the WTT shows 3.52 departures from KX to both Newcastle and Cleethorpes, and I put both on the sequence, to add variety. However, I did not read the very small print on the WTT, which eventually told me that the Newcastle ran as required, but only when the Cleethorpes did not. Now, I ran the Newcastle only a short time ago, and alarm bells started ringing when I found myself  forming exactly the same stock for the Cleethorpes. However, a few days can be a long time in Gilbert land, and I forgot I had recently run the Newcastle, or at least that it had left KX at 3.52. Here is the situation as my brain gradually fried.

Next though I had to run a Clarence Yard to Niddrie Class C, a job for a 34A V2. Here it is approaching Crescent Bridge on the slow line.

Tomorrow you will find out how I made a bad situation even worse.