Donington Road

Some photos from around the entrance at Hurn Road taken by Trackside ECML this afternoon. The corner on the road being reconstructed. Hurn Road looking north towards Glinton, the A15 dual carraigeway is behind the trees on the right. Looking down Hurn Road towards the ECML. Looking from the opposite direction, the ECML behind the photographer. All that is missing is a signpost to say where the next destination is. Behind the hedge to the left in the previous photo. A lot of topsoil still heaped up............. ......and still a lot of rubbish to clear up.

It does, but sometimes it is not always for the better. I have circled the manhole cover to give an idea of the before and after.

Crazy! Ripped out a perfectly good concrete slab that has had thousands of truck loads of spoil, 40 ton dumpers, dozers and excavators go cross it without making a mark, to be replaced with a four inch layer of tarmac that will rut over the coming years as it is only a single track road.

Thank you Richard. With regard to the rail heads, there is equal polishing on both lines. It is just the lighting effect, which on the day of videoing the up line the sunlight had a very orange hue to it compared to the previous and following day where it was a much whiter light. The mesh fencing along the dive under which is in the centre of the frame is also causing an exposure problem when the sun shines on it. I had to reduce the exposure post processing. A similar effect is happening at Lincoln Road where there is quite a contrast between the brighter ballast on the new line and the darker ballast on the Joint Line. Brighter overcast days tend to be better for video IMO, but then it is usually a bit too cold to be out this time of year.

Must be an affiliated site of RMweb.

Even the post from Melmerby (4th post down on this page) has come alive overnight. I now see the colourful video picture he embeded insted of the black screen which I took a screenshot of.

I have no problem with Youtube. The video that I posted works like any other when I view it. The issue is that RMweb was not embedding the link I pasted from my computer (the same machine that I viewed the video) into the post I was sending. There!!! what do you make of that? This computer has sat here for three hours or more doing nothing since I last posted a reply to you. I go to my email, see three new posts, open up RMweb, refresh the page and start replying to you, paste the link again out of curiosity and RMweb automatically embeds it.

Very, very strange We are both using FireFox, I am up to date and have disabled all add-ons and I still cannot embed that video link, in fact, I cannot embed any video from the Garath Dennis site. I have tried numerous other sites and videos and they will all embed within this post. I have now fired up another computer running mxLinux and FireFox, and it works fine, I can embed the link every time so it has to be an issue between my windows machine and RMweb. I have tried every thing I can think of Steve but cannot at the moment pinpoint the problem. I would most likely think it is another glitch on the RMweb side where only a small minority of users get these occasional issues. We had one awhile back where the site would keep timing out for a small number of people, a tweak of the time period in the Content I follow menu has banished that issue. The embeding of a Youtube link is neither here nor there as far as I am concerned, as long as the link is available, although a pretty picture does look better.

All I see on your post is this, no clickable link to take you to the video.

My good friend Trackside ECML of this parish found this interesting video and ask me to post it here. The majority of the video is about the need for the Werrington Dive Under and the journey through it on the LNER Azuma. There are some excellent cab views, especially from the rear cab on the return journey. I can only post it as a Youtube link as it is not possible to embed the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivxJurn0x7M

The only thing positive is the butterflies and colour, shame it is not just a ground covering plant instead of the out of control species it has been allowed to become around the railway.

There are a few container trains that go south on the ECML to the Thames ports, plus the bin trains, the Heck to Bow. In two hours this afternoon on the Joint at Lincoln Road four freights used the dive under (2 north, 2 south) and three on the surface route (1 north, 2 south)

RTT seems a bit of a mess recently. You need to search on Marholm Junction https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:MRHLMJN/2022-01-14/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt and Werrington Junction https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:WRNGTNJ/2022-01-14/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt to get some idea of which route a service will take. Even then, because freight does not always run to time, it seems that Peterborough Power Box use their discretion to fit those trains within the spare paths available at any particular time between passenger services. Railcam is much better as you can physically watch the movements along the ECML, Stamford Lines, Joint Line and in the station area in real time and see which route the next freight will be taking. This gives you about five minutes warning for a freight going north at Cock Lane or nearer ten minutes at Lincoln Road. The only drawback is spending too much time looking at the phone screen and plotting where to stand for the next photo or video that you miss something interesting flying by.

Until the buddleia starts to take over. Looking at you looking at me.

A quick visit to Hurn Road this afternoon. The new access road, beyond the fence, to the dive under has been getting plenty of use judging by the dirty state near the entrance off Hurn Road. There is still some machinery working to the extreme right of the photo but no obvious signs of what was going on. Quite a bit of standing water on the field as well. The concrete entrance to the old site access at Hurn Road is being broken up and taken away. It is a shame that it is being removed as it would have made a nice parking area for those wishing to visit the north end of Hurn Road. The arguement is that the land has to be re-instated but his little part was actually the driveway to the bungalow that stood there before demolition, so in theory it should be hardstanding.

The new Lincoln Road bridge gets its ID sign.

Oldish video footage of 91's around Peterborough by Trackside ECML.

The Joint Line, Werrington to Doncaster was upgraded 2012-2014 and overbridges rebuilt to higher clearences for future OHLE. Some reading here https://paulbigland.blog/tag/gnge/ Some heavier reading of Lincolnshire railways here https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s14719/Appendix A GLLEP Rail Study - January 2016.pdf

Perhaps Legolash might like this piece of information posted by Shwam3 From Marholm junction 1:337 falling for 345m 1:271 falling for 165m 1:112 falling for 781m 1:155 rising for 899m 1:124 rising for 330m Level for 190m 1:370 falling for 135m To Glinton junction

It is the person who owns the property there who has had contractors thining out the bushes and trees along the frontage to Hurn Road. He has been doing it on and off for a few weeks now. The ditch that runs along Hurn Road at the front of the property discharges into a ditch that runs parallel to the railway. This junction was cleaned out by Network Rail a few weeks ago when they put in a new pipe that crosses their old entrance near the footbridge at Hurn Road which goes to the relay room at Werrington Junction.

The dive under has been designed to accept OHLE. There are no plans to electrify the Joint Line in the near future.

I very much doubt that there would be enough potential passenger traffic. Louth going north maybe and Boston going south through Spalding. Mablethorpe is mainly made up of retired people who are not commuters. If you can find a copy of The Railway History of Lincoln by J.G. Ruddock & R.E. Pearson ISBN 0 904327 04 3 first published in 1974 it gives a very good insight of how and why the railways first came about in Lincolnshire. A very good read.

Oh yes, I see, another project to for us to report on.

I have seen three use it today, all on the down line. Apparently some drivers have raised concerns regarding the position of signal P490 on the up line coming out of the dive under at Cock Lane. Their concern is being stopped there and having to restart on the incline with a heavy train. It is going to stay there for awhile. Lloyds Bank are looking to develop that field and have requested not to have the topsoil replaced.

Great video Richard. You had much better lighting conditions from that side of the coach on the outward journey. I laughed at the comment "is that it? ", now who could that have been? Three years in the making and all that interest you have taken and it's all dismissed in a second.