Peterborough North

[great northern]

And now I can download images which I was not allowed to do just a few minutes ago. Here is Silver Link.

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8 hours ago, great northern said:

Following the Grimsby on the Up is the Nottingham-KX, only eight cars, but apparently nearly always A4 haulage. Silver Link, no less, today.

Well David, as you know I am pretty restrained in what I allow to run on PN. I take the view though that a straitjacket is an unhealthy form of restraint, and so when Accurascale do an appropriate model it will appear on PN despite the fact that the only evidence I have for them appearing anywhere but in the shed yard is one image showing what might be the rear of one on the Nene bridge. What's more it is likely to be 68599, which was Lincoln Central pilot, and to my knowledge never got anywhere near PN.

 

A psychiatrist might I suppose be interested in the fact that I will sanction that, but putting the wrong number on one of these first models announced would be totally unacceptable to me.  68535 was at Dundee, which is only up the road from Haymarket, after all.😉  New England had 68635, also with Scottish modifications, but alas with differences too significant for me to ignore. Unrecorded temporary transfer to 64B David, you know it makes sense.😈

Hi Gilbert

 

I can find no reason to dispute what you say.

 

I think at the end of the day it will come down to how good the model looks and it does look exceptional from what I have seen so far and also one of those must have decisions or stick to the prototype.

 

By the way Silver Link looks superb.

 

Regards

 

David

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[60027Merlin]

A psychiatrist might I suppose be interested in the fact that I will sanction that, but putting the wrong number on one of these first models announced would be totally unacceptable to me.  68535 was at Dundee, which is only up the road from Haymarket, after all.😉  New England had 68635, also with Scottish modifications, but alas with differences too significant for me to ignore. Unrecorded temporary transfer to 64B David, you know it makes sense.😈

 

Danger Warning

 

It’s a long road from Dundee and it would likely be sabotaged en route by an N. B. R.  J83, J88 N15, C16 amongst others. A Caley tank interloped to 64B in an attempt to replace a withdrawn J88 and lasted two days!

 

[stewartingram]

I'll have to look to see if any J67-J69 were shedded at PBO East, that would be an easy trip into North....

[great northern]

1 hour ago, 60027Merlin said:

A psychiatrist might I suppose be interested in the fact that I will sanction that, but putting the wrong number on one of these first models announced would be totally unacceptable to me.  68535 was at Dundee, which is only up the road from Haymarket, after all.😉  New England had 68635, also with Scottish modifications, but alas with differences too significant for me to ignore. Unrecorded temporary transfer to 64B David, you know it makes sense.😈

 

Danger Warning

 

It’s a long road from Dundee and it would likely be sabotaged en route by an N. B. R.  J83, J88 N15, C16 amongst others. A Caley tank interloped to 64B in an attempt to replace a withdrawn J88 and lasted two days!

 

Well OK, but that Caley thing wasn't LNER, was it?

[great northern]

1 hour ago, stewartingram said:

I'll have to look to see if any J67-J69 were shedded at PBO East, that would be an easy trip into North....

From the records I have, none at Spital Bridge by the late 50s either.

[great northern]

Silver Link at rest, not as far down the platform as we are used to seeing, because of the relatively short train.

and on the way out, in close up mode.

 

[great northern]

Peter Leyland on his way, so more Station Road development later, and I must get on with things. A clean Doncaster A1 on a relief to Leeds for you to gaze on this bright morning.

 

 

[great northern]

A very productive day, but no trains ran, and no more photos were taken, so there is just one more shot of 60144 tonight as it made its way towards Spital Bridge.

I'll do some more shots of Station Road progess in the morning, as things moved along pretty quickly.

[great northern]

Image store nearly empty, and it is rather dark and wet here, so I  only have one photo for you this morning, which shows a J6 running in with that parcels train which starts at New England, reverses into number 1 bay and stays there for quite a while, and then goes down to East.

[great northern]

More shots of progress down Station Road. I'll start at the far end, and with what seems to have been the most up market house. Peter and I have been wondering how to deal with the void under the bridge girder, not helped by the fact that I haven't found a single image showing the area. OS maps show that on the other side of the bridge the area was occupied by building frontages, and in the end we reckoned that those buildings used the area under the bridge for some purpose, as often happened with viaducts. Well, they wouldn't want wind and weather coming in from the other end, would they? And neither would the likely to be slightly posh home occupier want to be gazing at the interior. So we decreed that the whole thing was filled in using the same blue brick.

I have also decreed that the owner, or his wife, or both were keen gardeners,, and that will show up even more as time goes on, when that last vestige of grey board will disappear.

 

There is a passage between his house and the terraces, and it looked a bit bare and uninteresting to me, so a kind lady has agreed to carry her bucket along it. Phil painted quite a few figures for me, bless him, and places are now being found for them to stand.

Next come the terraces, and what looks like a communal front garden. You've already seen that the occupiers of the two on the left have no interest at all in maintaining it, but the other four, perhaps remembering digging for victory during WW2, have decided to grow some vegetables. They left a strip of grass to prevent weed encroachment, and then planted potatoes. I found some very nice looking stuff via Google, but as usual didn't read things thoroughly. Having naively thought they came complete, I found that were in fact very small kits, and the instructions are in German. I managed the thirty potato plants in the end, but a package of cabbages cauliflowers broccoli etc was beyond me. Peter managed to make some in the end, but even he found them so tiny as to be very difficult to deal with. They look very impressive though, and he will be tackling the rest next time he comes. Carrots too.

A look down the road from above...

and from ground level. The flowers I bought look so good that almost all the residents have been keen to have some, and they do bring a welcome splash of colour into what can be a rather grey environment.

More to come later.

[great northern]

The J6 has reversed into the bay, and now has the backdrop that has been missing for so long.

 

[great northern]

The second early morning KX-Grantham now appears, a very easy job for a double chimney A3. A departmental van for Doncaster seems to have regularly been the leading vehicle in the formation.

this next view is rapidly becomong a favourite of mine,

 

[Mallard60022]

It is incredible how those Houses and Gardens and that enhanced area, totally transform the views, especially such as that looking at the Parcels sitting in the Bay.

Inspirational.

Phil

[Woodcock29]

Love the lighting on this photo of Tracery Gibert- terrific in fact.

 

Andrew

[great northern]

A few more Station Road views.

 

 

[great northern]

Tracery simmers at Platform 6....

 

While on the main, another KX A3, Melton, runs through with the 8.00 am KX- Leeds.

[great northern]

Your unavoidably delayed morning images feature Melton again, in colour and monochrome.

 

[Bazza]

Hi Gilbert, That's a relief - was beginning to be concerned about you!

 

[great northern]

The last two of Station road, for now.

Someone's gate fell orf. Unhinged, perhaps?

 

Then to a corner of the hotel garden, where someone has planted lavender. Don't they know it doesn't like shade? How will it cope under trees? It will all end in tears, you know.

[Welly]

^^^

Looks like you unearthed a colour slide of Station Road in 1958!

[Oldddudders]

On 21/03/2023 at 11:58, great northern said:

A few more Station Road views.

 

 

 

 

Presumably this is Hyacinth Bucket?

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Presumably this is Hyacinth Bucket?

Too down market for her surely?  She wouldn't look at a residence with a common side passageway.

[great northern]

Some good news. The C12 wasn't really very poorly at all, and is already back on duty.

 

and we have a rather long mixed goods, still a job for a WD.

[great northern]

Clanking and groaning now amplified by the roof.

and then a passing greeting to New England colleagues in the cab of the J6.