Mablethorpe in '00'

ellisteph11 · Post by **ellisteph11** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:49 pm

Looking good, what era are you planning to model !!!!!!

Thanks, LNER era is the aim. '47. Obviously not while the 03 shunter is still hanging around!

giner · Post by **giner** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:48 pm

1947, one of the snowiest winters on record. Just dreaming, in modelling terms, I guess. But wouldn't it look something.

strang steel · Post by **strang steel** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:36 pm

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I do think that modelling Mablethorpe in the depths of winter would tend to diminish the variation of services that visited the station.

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manna · Post by **manna** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:33 am

G'Day Gents

Can you see it a big white board, with a J6 stuck in the middle of a snowdrift, and three people walking along the beach !!

manna

ellisteph11 · Post by **ellisteph11** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:51 pm

Can you see it a big white board, with a J6 stuck in the middle of a snowdrift, and three people walking along the beach !!

I think even my modelling expertise (which is not a lot) could stretch to that.

The picture below is from '47 and presents challenges in Mablethorpe having sun and lots of people!

giner · Post by **giner** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:40 pm

Is that you in the middle there, Ellis? Oh, just had a look at your blog, you're just a lad really - well, from my standpoint

. Really interesting to read on your progress. Mablethorpe looks like a great subject to be working on. Smallish station, goods yard, and a turntable to boot, and plenty of interest to operate. Looking good.

Horsetan · Post by **Horsetan** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:42 pm

With a bit of work, the man on the left could be made to resemble Boycie from "Only Fools and Horses"

ellisteph11 · Post by **ellisteph11** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:10 pm

Is that you in the middle there, Ellis?

Afraid not, was born 40 years later..

Mablethorpe is a strange station, after having a little 'play' trying to organise trains on my layout it must have been a really pain being a terminus from both ends. No room for stock, Platform 1 seems pretty useless as you have to go in through a headshunt, hence why the signal box had a walkway across the bay platform, albeit one that could be moved if desperate. This then makes me wonder if a train was in Platform 1 the signalman would be trapped in his box! But it can be seen in 1970 pictures with shiny rails, just cant understand what could have used it apart from storage of a few carriages / wagons.

No idea what they would have done in summer when excursions arrived on top of local services, where they would have put an eight coach train out of the way.

Probably the wrong comparison but when you look at the mass of sidings Cleethorpes and Skegness had, cant understand how Mabo operated without that kind of storage available.

Ive been questioning the track plans but every one Ive seen has the track laid out as I have back to 1902 to closure.

strang steel · Post by **strang steel** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:28 pm

I think that the Louth line was used on Sundays, as there was no Sunday service on that stretch. I presume they just backed trains up the branch in departure order.

Remember also that Saturday was a working day (until 1 p.m. at least) well into the 1960s, so that there would be few day excursions run then.

My experience of the line between Sleaford and Boston in the 1960s was that the earlier of the SO services (say 0930-1030 passing Sleaford) would begin to return soon after 1 p.m., because they were mainly for weeks' holiday passengers, and this would ease the storage problems somewhat.

ellisteph11 · Post by **ellisteph11** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:26 pm

I've just read that they used to store up to six rakes on the Louth line on Sundays, must have been quite a sight.

Before the new turntable was installed all big locos would be towed together and turned on Firsby loop (15 mile circular to turn them)

I guess it wasn't worth the effort of extra storage for the six days a week when only one tank engine rattled through with local services.

strang steel · Post by **strang steel** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:32 pm

It is a shame that you are not modelling the early 1960s because I read that on 23rd July 1961 a Baby Deltic D5909 was used on a Biggleswade to Mablethorpe excursion.

Now that must have been a sight for the local spotters, and those at Boston I suspect.

Blink Bonny · Post by **Blink Bonny** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:44 pm

Ay up, SS!

The question is, given the reliability(

) of the Baby Deltics, did it get there? And did it get back?

strang steel · Post by **strang steel** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:41 pm

That's a good point BB, but there are no tales of woe in the report, so presumably it did manage the round trip.

arigatou · Post by **arigatou** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:13 am

From the Victorian era, one from one of the 1930s and 1950s, a new '52 'turntable is interesting to consider engine photo book titles shed!

laws-on-sea · Post by **laws-on-sea** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:35 pm

hi , ive just finished my mablethorpe loop ,so i was glad to see someone else have a go at it too,i had to make a few small changes because of lack of space ,no photos as of yet ;
I found the ''disused railway stations'' web site very useful , good luck.

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