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It's ok for some... I think it would be the best part of 2 hours for me....

 

Needless to say, I doubt I would be allowed out to play by the domestic authority anyway ;-{

 

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Having a good nose around Spalding (not that there was a great deal to see)

 

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And this is looking north from the footbridge.

 

 

Chris Turnbull

 

There's even less at Spalding now. Since the re-signalling was commissioned from there to Werrington Junction it's effectively a single platform station, northbound services crossing over to use platform 1 so allowing the removal of the barrow crossing and also the necessity of providing a lift to the footbridge.

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We left the GN & GE Farewell tour at Lincoln so we'll start part two from there.

 

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Lincoln station looking north from where we return southwards towards Sleaford.

 

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And here's two shots of Sleaford station

 

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Skegness, where our two-car DMU is dwarfed by the size of the station facilities.

 

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Skegness signalbox.  Note the fine bracket signal with stays both sides.  I wasn't the only one taking photographs; perhaps you're reading this?

 

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It's now about 4.00 p.m. and the sun is setting over Skegness.  In an hour's time we shall depart, follow the last service train and be the last passenger train to use the GN & GE Joint between Spalding and March. 

 

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As we entered March there must have been at least a dozen detonators fixed to the track.  It was a fitting if somewhat poignant finale to a trip that we shall never be able to take again.

 

Chris Turnbull

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I only did the Spalding - March on one occasion. A returning Merrymaker with 55021 in the very early hours. Another reason i wasn't allowed out that day. I'd convinced the parents to let me go to Blackpool by myself as a 13 or 14 year old. I didn't let on that it left Blackpool at 01:05 until the day before i went...

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Ah super my LNER double stack disc! It always fascinated me as a kid..

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32297024@N08/sets/72157645132659727/

 

I remember seeing the track disappear from under the A1 and i'm led to believe this was 1969. I remember the track buckle too. That happened in August. We turned up and there was still dust in the air. I saw it happen from the A1! Not bad for a three year old!

 

30 years later i lifted the last bit of the route in Cambridge.

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Thanks for these Chris!  I grew up near Sandy (Gamlingay to be precise), and was involved with a group who tried to preserve a small part of the LNW line.  The last loco I saw passing through Potton was an 08 like the one in your last picture; quite possibly the same one.  Although by then no longer a through route to Cambridge (having been lifted from the middle outwards), I remember the equivalent demolition trains at the eastern end arriving in Cambridge past my school playing fields and recall they sometimes also used a short LNE brake van, which were getting pretty rare even then.  With hindsight, I don't know how a preserved railway would have fared, as I'm sure the plans to rebuild Sandy station into its present format and eliminate the bottleneck must have been in the process of being formulated at the time.

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Well Chris you have just trumped David Ford's photo on his thread; and turned my speculative guess as to the last EE Type 4 to retain a nose ladder into an embarrassing underestimate (see the class 40 photo thread).

 

Not only are photos of ladders on locos with small yellow panels very rare, I cannot remember ever seeing on on a full yellow end, but here is D253 in April 1969. Priceless.

 

I must have a lie down, to rest my brain.

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Well Chris you have just trumped David Ford's photo on his thread; and turned my speculative guess as to the last EE Type 4 to retain a nose ladder into an embarrassing underestimate (see the class 40 photo thread).

 

Not only are photos of ladders on locos with small yellow panels very rare, I cannot remember ever seeing on on a full yellow end, but here is D253 in April 1969. Priceless.

 

I must have a lie down, to rest my brain.

 

Goodness, I had no idea that Class 40s were so complicated.  You do live and learn, especially on RMWeb!

 

Chris Turnbull

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Excellent nostalgia as always.

 

I know what it is like to be a youngster in seventh heaven during August 1964, Chris.

 

That same month I was enjoying the delights of Bournemouth Central while my mother mooched around the shops. Sadly, no camera for me in those days, but I could have sat for weeks at the far end of the very long down platform, watching the activity at the shed across the tracks.

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