Peterborough North

[great northern]

Not difficult to identify this morning's featured train.

 

Headboard on straight too, whatever next. Victor Wild is getting very high on the list for some Timming. "Timaraing" doesn't have the same ring. We have a wonky lamp though, of course.

[jazzer]

1 hour ago, great northern said:

Not difficult to identify this morning's featured train.

 

Headboard on straight too, whatever next. Victor Wild is getting very high on the list for some Timming. "Timaraing" doesn't have the same ring. We have a wonky lamp though, of course.

“ Timaraing “ sounds like a great name for an A3. It fits in so well with names like Sansovino , Issinglass , and Solario, I bet most of us wouldn’t have noticed if you said it was 60113 Timaraing, named after the 1873 Derby winner 

[Oldddudders]

7 hours ago, jazzer said:

named after the 1873 Derby winner 

I wonder just how you settled on that particular year.....

[great northern]

A Doncaster -KX service brings Patrick Stirling to our notice.

 

[great northern]

The 6.45 Down Cleethorpes comes under the bridge with the usual immaculate B1. One of the  few that I feel are OK without any shopping.

Up on the bridge, to observe the B1 again, about to pass the waiting A1.

 

[jazzer]

22 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

I wonder just how you settled on that particular year.....

Modellers licence, like so many other things in toy train world !

[great northern]

40 minutes ago, jazzer said:

Modellers licence, like so many other things in toy train world !

You were a bit unlucky though, as the winner of the 1873 Derby was called Doncaster, and that would be very high up indeed on the LNER's list of names.

[great northern]

Definitely Immingham B1 time. As the Cleethorpes waits, fish vans from New Clee approach.

 

We can have a reverse angle on that.

[jazzer]

4 hours ago, great northern said:

You were a bit unlucky though, as the winner of the 1873 Derby was called Doncaster, and that would be very high up indeed on the LNER's list of names.

Yes I know. After I plucked the date out of the air and posted it the year did ring a bell with me so I double checked and yes it was Doncaster.  In fact I was half tempted to quote some obscure shed allocation but I guessed that would undoubtedly send some digging out there old Ian Allan’s!

If we can get back to the serious stuff now do you happen to know if any of the B1’s on the Cleethorpes or Grimsby expresses returned the same day . Technically there would be enough time for one of two of the early expresses to be serviced and return with a later train, but the round trip would be very good loco utilisation, better than a lot of Pacific’s in fact,

[great northern]

10 hours ago, jazzer said:

Yes I know. After I plucked the date out of the air and posted it the year did ring a bell with me so I double checked and yes it was Doncaster.  In fact I was half tempted to quote some obscure shed allocation but I guessed that would undoubtedly send some digging out there old Ian Allan’s!

If we can get back to the serious stuff now do you happen to know if any of the B1’s on the Cleethorpes or Grimsby expresses returned the same day . Technically there would be enough time for one of two of the early expresses to be serviced and return with a later train, but the round trip would be very good loco utilisation, better than a lot of Pacific’s in fact,

I'm as certain as I can be that both returned the same day. Photos seem to confirm that as does my memory from the time. I'm sure the Immingham and Boston men involved would have preferred not to be lodging overnight, and so would the authorities.The Saturday extras I'm not so sure, but I reckon they would have been out and back workings too.

[great northern]

Same locos to be seen this morning, as I have decided to use the light when there is some, rather than spend a lot of time making up and dispersing trains.

and yet again from the bridge.

[great northern]

Still up on Spital Bridge, and watching the departure of the Cleethorpes.

 

 

And, thank goodness, I now have a new fridge freezer. Normality shall return.

[New Haven Neil]

I love those last two photos Gilbert, full of the railway infrastructure clutter I like so much.

[johndon]

I thought viewers of this thread might appreciate this photo which appeared on Flickr today:

 

60862 at Peterborough (pjs,1341) by Geoff Dowling, on Flickr

 

[great northern]

Making use of our patented levitation device, we move over the Midland sidings, and get this view of the fish.

Then back to solid ground on Crescent Bridge to get this shot.

[franciswilliamwebb]

11 hours ago, johndon said:

 

60862 at Peterborough (pjs,1341) by Geoff Dowling, on Flickr

 

 

Good lord!  He seems to have caught the "patented levitation device" in the distance above the station 😉

[great northern]

35 minutes ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

Good lord!  He seems to have caught the "patented levitation device" in the distance above the station 😉

No, thats a UFO.  Lovely picture though.

[Clive Mortimore]

11 hours ago, johndon said:

I thought viewers of this thread might appreciate this photo which appeared on Flickr today:

 

60862 at Peterborough (pjs,1341) by Geoff Dowling, on Flickr

 

I am confused, there seems to be some metal bars between the MR lines and the GNR ones that are not on Gilbert's wonderful layout. Any ideas as to what they are or were they temporary and just left lying about for a while?

[great northern]

8 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I am confused, there seems to be some metal bars between the MR lines and the GNR ones that are not on Gilbert's wonderful layout. Any ideas as to what they are or were they temporary and just left lying about for a while?

I suspect that you are not confused at all, but may just be indulging in naughtiness. I nearly typed "again", after that, but I restrained myself.

[Flying Fox 34F]

11 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I am confused, there seems to be some metal bars between the MR lines and the GNR ones that are not on Gilbert's wonderful layout. Any ideas as to what they are or were they temporary and just left lying about for a while?

Clive,

 

Its point rodding and signal wires!  Are you volunteering to install it?

 

Paul

[Flying Fox 34F]

According to the description of the V2 photo, your UFO is a high speed pigeon!

Should we presume the Patented levitation device is a pigeon trained to use a camera?

Hat, Coat, Gone

 

Paul

[Clive Mortimore]

8 minutes ago, great northern said:

I suspect that you are not confused at all, but may just be indulging in naughtiness. I nearly typed "again", after that, but I restrained myself.

Quoi, moi?

 

6 minutes ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

Clive,

 

Its point rodding and signal wires!  Are you volunteering to install it?

 

Paul

Quoi, moi?

[Oldddudders]

21 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Quoi, moi?

 

Quoi, moi?

Pretentious, too!

[Clive Mortimore]

37 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Pretentious, too!

Wot me?

 

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

According to the description of the V2 photo, your UFO is a high speed pigeon!

Should we presume the Patented levitation device is a pigeon trained to use a camera?

Hat, Coat, Gone

 

Paul

I hadn't read the description Paul, and so proceeded on the modern basis of mindless speculation without a shred of supporting evidence. Could have been a pigeon from Mars though, I suppose.