Donington Road

That's for sight seeing tours for those who unfortunately missed out on a trip down the dive under during last weeks diversions.🙄

All the yellow things have gone on Tuesday 24th.

Only two that I can see that stop at York, 13:47 KX to Aberdeen and 17:15 KX to Edinburgh. Other LNER services that stop at York will be by bus between Peterborough and Doncaster. Realtime trains. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:PBO/2023-05-17/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

After weeks of piling there is a building starting to be assembled on the old Morgan Sindall site.

Don't miss your train, there are only four LNER heading north from Peterborough in the morning. Have a good journey👍

Those two services that use dive under and arrive and depart platform 7 have been doing so for over a year. 2K17 Doncaster to Peterborough which then returns but only as far as Lincoln as 2K44. Why only that service I don't know. There appears to be no conflicting movements as to why it could not use platform 1 like all the other EMR services on the Joint Line.

The number 91 is most likely the crossing number of which there were hundreds in Lincolnshire. The signal box probably only had a 15 lever frame as it only controlled about half a dozen signals and the crossing gates. Of note are the pivoting red lamps on the right hand side gates. The car that has just crossed on the A52 is about to carry on turning 70 degrees on to Sleaford Road towards Boston. To the left of that car the A1121 Boston to Sleaford road formed a 'T' junction. As the A52 was the 'main road', when the crossing gates were closed to road traffic the gate lamps pivoted in the direction of Boston along Sleaford Road and were not square on to the gates. You could see these lamps from quite a distance away at night time when leaving Boston. Today the road is much wider and the A52/A1121 junction is now a mini roundabout.

I wouldn't think so. Spalding Tulip Parade did not start until 1959.

Another valuable resource being closed down. https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close There is a petition here if anyone is interested. https://www.change.org/p/stop-amazon-from-closing-dpreview-com?source_location=search

The Lloyds data centre is progressing. We have had the non-stop constant rhythm of piling all day and every day this week. At least Network Rail sent us written warning when they intended to start piling. I guess the state the banking industry is in at the moment that Lloyds couldn't afford the exhorbitant postage costs to send out letters.😁 This was Wednesday, the whole field should be covered with piles by now at the rate they were going in.

It had disappeared by Tuesday.

Completely OFF TOPIC, but may be of interest to some. Some links to more information. https://ang.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4f1e69f1f95a4ebb9b27e6e0d4715c5b https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/about-us/our-strategies-and-plans/new-water-pipelines/grantham-to-bexwell-pipeline/ https://docs.planning.org.uk/20210113/161/QL0LWVLL00S00/uqri70xlyv9oj8ym.pdf

The old Morgan Sindall site at Stirling Way getting another make over. Hats off to the contractors though, as they bring a lorry of stone in they use it to take a load of soil away.

Sadly not Martyn, the last deliveries were a year later in 2006 https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21307118.adnams-horses-make-last-ever-deliveries/ Fortunately, Adnams beer is still being produced, yum!

Delivering beer for Adnams, Southwold 2005, much better than dirty old coal.😁

I should have checked it out more thoroughly, it could have been full of Amazon goodies.😁

Probably the same driver who dumped the van a few weeks ago. Doesn't look to be much wrong with it other than a flat front tyre.

In railway news, Cock Lane has acquired a CCTV camera, road/rail cherry pickers and trolleys have arrived. The three transformers to the left of the white van for the OHLE have been here for a couple of weeks and some of dilapidated pallets of insulators have turned up. Not sure what is going on, the transformers are faded and dirty so may have already had replacements installed. The gentleman had just been inside and probably fired up a diesel generator as smoke can be seen coming through the roof vent.

Work progressing on the old site at Bretton, viewed from Cock Lane.

Things are moving along with the old Morgan Sindall site. I think I prefer to see the field after the deer reclaimed the grazing rights last year. All the fuss about rehoming the Great Crested newts and not a word from anyone about the looking after the deer.

A bit of déjà vu going on here. Different contractors but the same old story, the bridge is in and the topsoil is being moved out. The whole site is covered by camera's in all corners of the field

😁 There really is no excuse while this is taking so long to finish. It is not setting a good example of keeping your surroundings nice and tidy to the local citizens either, especially when there is flytipping issues in the area.

It is now over two years ago that work started near Walton footbridge to install an access gate to the roadway that was installed along the west side of the Stamford Lines from Cock Lane. Some before and after photos from my friend Trackside ECML of how things have progressed since. The paved area fenced off, this is 12 March 2021 a few months into the start. The brick wall has been demolished and work is underway to construct a concrete slab. By May 2021 the work had been completed, just tidying up to do. By 12th January 2023, just the tidying up to do! September 2021 12th January 2023, what a mess. September 2021, gravel, hardcore and new kerbstones ready to go in. The only change has been the rubbish bin falling off the gravel heap

Still messing around with getting the bridge installed.

Thank you for the link Richard. I was too far in the past looking from a different angle. In 2007 my son was tasked with selling that land on behalf of his client for the use of warehousing. Nothing became of the sale and his prospective customer bought the old Freemans distribution centre at Westwood instead. In 2008 the field had acquired planning for a cold storage distribution centre but nothing ever materialised. If that had been built then it would have been debatable if the new dive under could have been constructed. Looking at the new plans, the proposed data centre building and layout is not dissimilar to the original cold storage building although the land area for the former is somewhat less now since Brook Drain and the railway have been re-aligned. It is also of interest reading the accompanied documents in the planning of how much more detail is put into the different surveys compared to only a few years ago. The Great Crested Newts rear their head again along with tree planting but no one mentions the deer who will lose their grazing grounds.