Peterborough North

[great northern]

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

An uncommon view of the lady - through A4 offside handrails!

Very quick, Ian. If there was a prize, you would have got it.

[great northern]

Our men on Spital Bridge are ready and waiting for 60013, and capture two different angles, also featuring that waiting 9F.

 

[great northern]

A last look at 60013 from on high.

 

After which, attention moves to Platform 6 where our lovely little J15 has brought in the East shuttle.

[great northern]

Nearly a week since there has been enough light to take photos of the layout, but while wandering around my small patch of England I thought this view might be worth sharing.

Frogs, newts and fish were camera shy. Then if I walk a few yards this is the view from my garden gate.

The grass is not usually this long, but the big gang mower hasn't been able to get on here for quite a while. Is there anywhere better than our country in the spring?

 

 

[Clive Mortimore]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

 

 

The grass is not usually this long, but the big gang mower hasn't been able to get on here for quite a while. Is there anywhere better than our country in the spring?

 

 

No Clive you are not allowed to say how nice it is of the staff to let Gilbert have a walk around the asylum grounds on his own. 

 

The photo is of one of the pagodas that were in the grounds of the former hospital that was on the site close to where Gilbert resides.

Edited May 18 by Clive Mortimore

[great northern]

More happy holidaymakers on the way to Skegness, with another Immingham B1.

which now passes an Ivatt which has sneaked unobserved into the bay with stock for the 1040 to Yarmouth.

[great northern]

Following the steady onward progress of the B1.

 

Wall to wall sunshine promised, so hopefully more trains run today.

[great northern]

The B1 has gone, and nor far behind it is Gateshead's A2/3 Tehran.

There is a headboard, and this front on shot reveals that we are looking at the Norseman.

[great northern]

60518 looms larger.

 

and is then seen going away, a shot to which i am somewhat partial.

[great northern]

Yet one more look at Tehran, which was not a common sight down south.

The same could not be said for KX A1 Amadis, which now arrives with the 8.11am Leeds-KX.

[great northern]

Back into the gloom, as Amadis approaches.

but quickly out again, as we have a K2 to look at. It is bringing in the stock for the 1057 slow to Grimsby. On Saturdays, even the large number of B1s that Immingham had would be stretched, so Boston shed is helping out with 61766.

[great northern]

A visit by Timara today, bearing a goodie, which will be revealed tomorrow. Tonight our next train is another Skeggy bound, this one originating from Hertford and Hitchin. A Hitchin B1 provides the motive power.

Before the B1 could come through, that K2 had to get its stock off the main and into the bay, which it did, and where it now rests.

[stewartingram]

Just a thought....

I have somewhere pics showing 10800 (recently modelled by Heljan), around Pb East station. Obviously working from the LMR, but which route? Would this be a possible candidate for PN?

[great northern]

2 hours ago, stewartingram said:

Just a thought....

I have somewhere pics showing 10800 (recently modelled by Heljan), around Pb East station. Obviously working from the LMR, but which route? Would this be a possible candidate for PN?

I have seen pics of it at East too, but never one at North. From what I've read  it was used on the East to Northampton and Rugby trains. So far as I am concerned, there it shall remain. You will gather I am not in the slightest bit tempted.

[great northern]

I keep trying to find new angles for you, but often they don't really work. I suspect this is one of them

The next one was rather hopeful too, given the glare fron the windows. Did black and white save it?

It does look quite atmospheric. Pictures of a goodie later.

 

[St Enodoc]

31 minutes ago, great northern said:

I keep trying to find new angles for you, but often they don't really work. I suspect this is one of them

The next one was rather hopeful too, given the glare fron the windows. Did black and white save it?

It does look quite atmospheric. Pictures of a goodie later.

 

I agree that the first one doesn't really work. The second, however, looks just like the sort of black-and-white photo from the 50s that our parents took.

[great northern]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I agree that the first one doesn't really work. The second, however, looks just like the sort of black-and-white photo from the 50s that our parents took.

Thank you, that is really pleasing, as it was just what I was trying to achieve. I took plenty like that back in the late 50s/early sixties too!

[great northern]

And so to a goodie. There are few of these now, as my locoholism, apart from a very occasional flare up, seems to have been cured. However, there are still one or two things  which are genuinely needed, so when I had an idle trawl through E Bay and saw this, I was interested.

 

 

It was listed under the recent and very useful category of "new, other", and new it turned out to be. It was also one of the later runs of this very long lived Hornby loco. So, off it went to Timara, who tells me she felt that this was worth some special treatment. I'll leave it to her to explain why. It is, as always, a lovely job, and a complete transformation of what came out of the box. The light wasn't good, but I think the subtleties can still be seen. Timara took some shots outside in full sunlight, which she will post later, and give a better idea.

 

Why this, you may wonder?  Leicester Midland shed, 15C, had this one and 42331, and they seem to have spent quite a lot of time on the Leicester- East trains, so it is ideal, really. Nice to have another tank engine to look at too.

Edited May 22 by great northern
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[30368]

3 hours ago, great northern said:

Why this, you may wonder?  Leicester Midland shed, 15C, had this one and 42331, and they seem to have spent quite a lot of time on the Leicester- East trains, so it is ideal, really. Nice to have another tank engine to look at too.

 

The Fowler 2-6-4T was, by all acounts, a very good and useful engine class. Buxton shed had a number of these tanks for the Stockport/Manchester London Road services which I regularly use but now served by 150's and London Road has become Piccadilly. The weathering is very, very good. Enjoy Gilbert!

 

Kind regards,

 

30368

[65179]

2 hours ago, 30368 said:

 

The Fowler 2-6-4T was, by all acounts, a very good and useful engine class. Buxton shed had a number of these tanks for the Stockport/Manchester London Road services which I regularly use but now served by 150's and London Road has become Piccadilly. The weathering is very, very good. Enjoy Gilbert!

 

Kind regards,

 

30368

 

More on Buxton tanks here:

http://manlocosoc.co.uk/f264.html

 

They also worked to Manchester via Peak Forest alongside Buxton's 4-4-0s.

 

Simon

 

[great northern]

More experimenting, and again not very inspiring.

 

A more familiar view shows that this is Grantham's Pretty Polly, and that we have another named train.

 

 

[Metropolitan H]

On 21/05/2024 at 18:51, great northern said:

A visit by Timara today, bearing a goodie, which will be revealed tomorrow. Tonight our next train is another Skeggy bound, this one originating from Hertford and Hitchin. A Hitchin B1 provides the motive power.

Before the B1 could come through, that K2 had to get its stock off the main and into the bay, which it did, and where it now rests.

I do like a K2 , a very well proportioned and useful engine - with much more charm than a B1.

 

Regards

Chris H

[mullie]

Has the 4mt left for the M&GN, have I missed it?

 

At least one of us likes to see them. 

 

Martyn

[great northern]

12 minutes ago, mullie said:

Has the 4mt left for the M&GN, have I missed it?

 

At least one of us likes to see them. 

 

Martyn

Erm... yes, it has gone. Perhaps the photographer got distracted for a few minutes. I'll ask him, or her, to pay more attention next time. There's another one due in about half an hour.

[jazzer]

6 hours ago, 30368 said:

 

The Fowler 2-6-4T was, by all acounts, a very good and useful engine class. Buxton shed had a number of these tanks for the Stockport/Manchester London Road services which I regularly use but now served by 150's and London Road has become Piccadilly. The weathering is very, very good. Enjoy Gilbert!

 

Kind regards,

 

30368

They were apparently well liked by some of the crews on the LT&S section as well, despite that line being mainly the stomping ground of the more “ modern” Staniers and Standard 2-6-4s. Looks like it must have been all-rounder.