Mystery Photo

[AlanMoore]

I found this shot in my collection of slides. It dates from 1981 but I've no idea where it is. I think it's somewhere in the East Midlands possible Lincolnshire. please can anyone help. I was amazed at the petrol prices in the Esso garage. Four star is £1.52 a gallon which If my maths is correct works out to about 33p a litre. Happy days

[R. pike]

Thats an easy one.. The 47 is crossing Mareham Lane in the only place left, as far as i'm aware, where you can pass South, East, West and North signalboxes on the same train....

[52D]

Enlighten us more where is mareham lane?.

[R. pike]

And during recent ECML diversions down trains were passing four signalboxes and up trains passing two at this location...

[AlanMoore]

Which Town is Mareham Lane in?

[R. pike]

Sleaford. The only reason i know the road is called Mareham Lane is because the locking fitters gave me some of the redundant lever plates from Sleaford East box. Unusually they have Mareham Lane engraved on them.

[AlanMoore]

OK thanks very much. I thought it was somewhere around there. I will have a look at Multimap to get my bearings as it's 28 years since the photo was taken. It would be interesting to know what the redundant signals controlled.

[strang steel]

The redundant signal bracket was identical to the one still in use. ( They can just be seen in this photo on the Lincs Railway Photo website:- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.enef ... eaford.htm )

At this point, the double track from Sleaford South Junc (with the GN&GE Lincoln - Spalding line) ran parallel to the double track from Boston, the junction being just before the level crossing.

The redundant signals controlled the Boston line and seem to have been replaced by a colour light and junction 'feather' which can be seen just beyond it.

John