Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Peak

Looking south-west from the Buxton Road between Earl Sterndale and Hindlow. The River Dove runs beneath the snow-capped limestone crags on the skyline. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

A snowy Peak District landscape looking east from the Buxton-Leek road to Hollinsclough Moor and Longnor. The mini-Matterhorn in the centre is Chrome Hill a Lower Carboniferous limestone reef knoll. HFF and a great & safe weekend.

A Peak Class diesel is working hard on a Northeast to Southwest expess (1V76 to Penzance) as it crosses the viaduct over the canal & Bristol Road in Birmingham. Queen Elizabeth Hospital forms the backdrop. By 1975 the Midland Railway station, opened in 1876, was unmanned & uncared for. The glass in the platform awning had gone & the buildings were derelict. It was demolished and replaced by a modern structure a few years later.

After the last round trip from Mountsorrel station we returned, still top and tailing with Y7 0-4-0T, to Swithland Sidings and from there to Loughborough ecs and disposal. In a sort of modern version of the Titfield Thunderbolt we arrived at Swithland Junction at the same time as a main line express passed through. Not a Castle but a Peak, D123, roars southwards as Teddy, Peckett 0-4-0ST 2012, is signalled off the branch. Best seen large.

View north from Leicester station. Peak class diesels 45159 & 45114 slowly draw a train towards the station although the signals seem to be against them. In fact that's the signalman hurrying back to his box to clear the Inner Home. Meanwhile a dmu is heading northwards under clear signals on the Down Main. 45159 had failed within sight of the station & fortunately 45114 was on hand in the station & was dispatched to retrieve it. The whole episode only took half an hour or so. I wonder how long it would take today if a Midland Mainline train failed here? There are only very few locomotives around, if any, & those would be EWS or Freightliner owned so difficulties with insurance, liabilities, etc would make it a long drawn out procedure I'm sure. Until the 1980s Leicester Midland before modernisation was an interesting place with a definite steam-age atmosphere. Leicester North's Midland Railway signal box, a forest of semaphore signals, the loco stabling point behind the box and, off shot to the left, the LNWR & MR Goods yards all added their bit. Interestingly, the loading gauge post on the extreme left has lost its hanging gauge hoop which could still be seen on a 1975 photo I posted elsewhere. A clear indication of the further loss of freight business in the intervening two years.