The LNER Encyclopedia

StevieG wrote: " Right, here goes for an attempt (believed all Down direction :
Certainly nothing at KX ) :

- Approaching & passing right through Wood Green Tunnel on Down Fast *, while --
-- "MGM Presents.....Get Carter"
-"British Oil.." etc. out of the window; unknown to me, but happy to acknowledge Bryan's 'BOCM Selby'
- Passing through Hadley North Tunnel
- (colour-light signal, & four straight tracks through several-arched overbridge; centre 2 tracks through centre arch); Uncertain - somewhere between Hunt'don & Abbotts Ripton?
- Between Welwyn South and North Tunnels and passing thro' the latter, while --
-- "Screenplay by Mike Hedges...."
- - [ M.C. sits down in Restaurant Car ]
- DF just north of Biggleswade station (tall semaphore signal, overbridges and high brick retaining walls)
- Approaching Barford, power station on left of RH curve
- Approaching Tempsford (pair of signals on bracket; Deltic-hauled train passes on the UF)

-- [ during M.Cane eating soup ] --
- (skew overbridge over double track plus 3rd line on right), Unknown
- Approaching & going through Peascliffe Tunnel?

- (overbridge with lattice fencing either side of bridge span), S.Yorks.Jt. rail overbridge?, (south of Donc.: Low Ellers Jn. Box just off to right?)
- (distant shot of power station), Unknown - Bryan's 'Eggborough'?
- (MANY signals), Decoy? (Doncaster)
-- [ M.C. reads book ]
- "NEWCASTLE" (darkness; platform flourescent lights; 2 x twin position-light signals (red/white / white/white) beside platform, LH pair elevated and top one 'off' (white/white) [ unusual location for same in signalling terms.]

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* - 90 mph in 1971 : A bit different from the 60 permitted here in the 1960 Sect'l. App'dx.(to Potters Bar, then 70 to Woolmer Green, where finally 90 was allowed).

Bryan wrote: " Not quite as I remembered. ...."

That crossed my mind as well.- I thought I remembered seeing more snippits identifiable as around Hadley Wood. "

61070 wrote:

StevieG wrote: :
-- [ during M.Cane eating soup ] --
- (skew overbridge over double track plus 3rd line on right), Unknown

StevieG: I'm pretty sure this is approaching Grantham from the south, passing under the old A1 (now B1174) with the up goods line on the right. If you pause at just the right spot there are sidings past the bridge on the left, where a goods brake van is just discernible. Further on, on the right, are ? Ruston's works. This would fit with the suggestion of Peascliffe Tunnel following.

strang steel wrote: " .... I also have a Euston to Liverpool one, but that is early 1980s."

strang steel wrote:Well it does depend on how you define 'changed significantly', and this applies to the ECML as well (although the suburban electrification in the latter case would be considered significant by some).

I am particularly interested in sidings, yards and junction layouts, and although the actual route did not change there was quite a lot of rationalisation in the trackwork prior to the 1980s. Along with this went the allocation of many shunting locomotives that spent their time in and around these sidings.

Micky wrote:

strang steel wrote:I would pay a lot of money for a cab ride dvd from the late 1960s or early 1970s.

I have one from St Pancras to Sheffield from that same era, which is of interest but the ECML would be a dream come true.

Yeah i have the same x2 dvds John, i must admit it gets a little bit boring in dvd-2 when you get north of Liecester (i think it's Liecester?) long stretches of colour light signalling and just 2-roads but it's better then nothing from that era.