No.122 Trains Around Werrington Junction 12th-17th June 2024

All clips from Cock Lane footbridge. We see the last ever run of the Willesden to Tyne Royal Mail Train through Peterborough with 325015. Class 47's on a ECS working to and from Norwich. The Middleton Towers sand train which very often gets locos or wagons added by GBRF at New England. The Toton to Whitemoor evening working which can also throw up some interesting combinations at times. Class 60 and plenty of 66's on freight work. Colas 37's on a Network Rail test train conveniently stopping at a red light to give us a nice view.
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[@tracksideecml4464]

Excellent video so clear, and a great set of different freight

[@werringtonjunction]

Thank you very much for watching.

[@michaelchester8997]

Excellent yet again

[@werringtonjunction]

Thank you for watching Michael.

[@user-wu8wb8fg1h]

It's 730p here in California. I'm playing fetch the ball with my Dog. Watching the video. Can you clarify "The last mail train out of Peterborough " And once again another Excellent video!!

[@werringtonjunction]

The movement of mail has now been transferred to road haulage. Thank you for commenting and watching.

[@mikeuk4130]

Of the two slow lines which split away from each other either side of the dive-under lines, only the down line appears to be electrified and not the up. Can you explain the reason for this, please, because these two tracks appear to be going to and coming from the same places, ie, serving the same route? Thanks on this technical point, which is not spoiling my viewing of this highly watchable episode!

[@werringtonjunction]

The split which is Marholm Junction was created when the dive under was built. The alignment of the two centre lines of the dive under was the original alignment of the Midland Railway line from Peterborough East station (on the Peterborough to Ely line) to Stamford. Oakham, Melton Mowbray, etc. The building of the dive under on the alignment of those lines made it necessary to put the Stamford lines either side of it.
Way before all of that, the East Coast Main Line from Werrington Junction to Peterborough used to have five lines going south instead of the three that are there now and going north from Werrington Junction there were four, up and down main and up and down slow.
Re-modelling of Werrington Junction over the years have seen the five lines going south reduced to the three we see today and the down slow removed as far as Helpston Junction about two miles to the north.
After the removal of the ECML down slow, the down Stamford line then doubled up as the ECML down slow from Peterborough to Helpston Junction where it re-joined the ECML to create the original four track ECML going north. The electrification of the Down Stamford/Down ECML Slow to Helpston Junction which you enquire about was done in the late 1980's. The Stamford Line towards Melton Mowbray is not electrified hence why there is not OHE on the Up Stamford Line.
Here is Helpston Junction www.google.com/maps/@52.6355461,-0.3288863,248m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu
Old Werrington Junction track diagram, file sbd-werrington drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1FlmREu4584Wah-EzocIed2wWuIZksnJW
More dive under info drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1-A1162n04x6xDXVyuQbf-am4O8ps52qy
Hope that explains things Mike, thanks for watching and commenting.

[@mikeuk4130]

@@werringtonjunction Thank you so much for your prompt and comprehensive reply, Werrington. I’ll dig out my atlas later and look at everything you’ve kindly covered. I have the gist of it in my mind already, it’s just the network knowledge that’s missing. Cheers.

[@werringtonjunction]

@@mikeuk4130 You might like this video that has just appeared. If you start the video at 3 hours and 9 minutes in you will come up to Helpston Junction on the Up Stamford Line heading towards Peterborough.
th-cam.com/video/b7zvCrYup_A/w-d-xo.html

[@mikeuk4130]

​@@werringtonjunction Thank you so much! Ironically, it was watching Don's video that brought my question to mind again and made me ask you, being the Werrington specialist! I therefore watched it again and this time saw the point where the down slow leaves to go back to the ECML, taking the wires with it. The up slow ECML is therefore on the far left/East side, looking South, of the whole formation in your WJ videos. I'll see more every time I watch! Thanks again and all the best. Mike

[@werringtonjunction]

@@mikeuk4130 I'm glad you have worked it all out Mike. It has always been a busy and interesting area around Werrington Junction. In Don's video, from Helpston towards Peterborough, the first overbridge (silvery grey colour) you see is Hurn Road footbridge where I do some videos from. That used to be a road crossing with manually worked gates and the original lattice footbridge only spanned the ECML, the steps coming down on the west side between the ECML and Stamford Lines so you had to walk across the Stamford Lines. Another bit of info, Werrington water troughs in steam days where on the ECML up and down fast between Hurn Road and Werrington Junction, the treatment plant being adjacent to the Joint/ECML about where the northern entrance to the dive under is.