Thanks for these... I loved my year working there. I was just the flat bed truck driver, delivering kit to the real workers all over the site. A really good time
Thanks Brian, it was a privilage to get invited for the tour. Now that I have been it would be nice to have another day wandering at leisure to photograph and video all the intricate bits and pieces that get missed first time around.
Thank you. I am sure it will make a nice change for you, perhaps more challenging with the grades? When it rains don't forget to take your the scuba gear, that is a very deep hole in a flood area you will be going through. A drivers eye video would be nice.
@@werringtonjunction They could do if you had to do a standing start in there, but turnout speeds at either end appear to be 60mph so if you have a clear run through then momentum will carry you through with no issues.
@@S2RUF Getting held on the Up Line signal at Cock Lane (big green bridge) is probably the worst scenario for a standing start. Peterborough PSB (IMO 😁) are not over friendly towards freight either so if you are coming towards Marholm Junction and one of those Birmingham to Stanstead things comes pootling along vying for the same space you ain't gonna win however much momentum you have!
Fantastic thanks Mick. I was told the other week its all been built to a gauge so should they want electrify it at a later date its just a case of fitting it.
Good example of well captioned stills being better than a 'movie'. I wondered about the water table issues with the site being on the edge of the Fens. Anyone know the gradients for each side? No sense of urgency about first use by traffic. Very good of Network Rail to allow early access. Perhaps a drone recording on a day during the first week of operation? Thanks too, to Trackside ECML
Thank you Tom for the positive comment about the video. There were so many questions to ask at the time of the visit that the obvious ones like gradients completely slipped by. From the south portal towards Marholm Junction seems it quite steep, in my estimate perhaps 1:75/80. From the north portal to Glinton Junction is a greater distance so a shallower gradient although the first part is on a tightish curve. The height from rail to ceiling in the tunnel is eight metres, then a metre of concrete, then another metre? of ballast and rail so the drop in rail height from Marholm Junction is around ten metres. A drone would have been a very useful asset during the last three years, sadly, no one has set up a go-fund me page so I could purchase one! Trackside ECML and I like photographing and videoing the area just for pleasure and this Upgrade Project gave us the excuse to get out and about in retirement. This channel was initially, only set up for us to share and download each others videos.
@@werringtonjunction I may be able to find the man who did a series with his drone on the construction of the Huntingdon By-pass. He was tireless. I would contribute towards the cost of one for yourself. As for gradients I can approach the contractors working for N R as they have already made a recording of the scheme as proposed with a 'drive through' as you will have seen already, I expect. TC
Thank you so much for your videos showing the start of the project to the completed dive under. It was particularly good to to travel through the completed tunnel and see the ancillary works. You have kept me informed throughout the project. When do you expect the first train to use the dive under? Thanks again.
Thank you David for watching what has been an interesting journey. Sadly from my point of view it is nearing completion and I shall miss the rapport of the many people who worked on the project and the general public who stopped to chat while I was out and about. The first trains are probably going to be using the dive under at the end of the year, whatever, I will being doing a few updates as things go forward.
Nice video. Do you know when trains are due to start using the dive-under? I''ve often wondered what the boxes are by the trackside for example visible around 3:50 anyone know?
Thanks for watching. The boxes are track side drainage, watch this video at 00:12 in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dJZsMH5fgMU.html Trains may be running at the end of the year, no definite date.
@@werringtonjunction Thanks and the link is a good illustration of how they work I guess water drains through the side since they sit proud of the ballast? I'm sure they've appeared on existing stretches of railway in recent years suggesting we are looking after our railway better these days
I have been following the progress of the construction of the new junction on yours and Trackside ECML videos, do you have an idea as to when trains will start running on the Dive Under?
Hand over from Morgan Sindall to Network Rail is due sometime in November so trains could be running by the end of the year. Signalling has been wired up and testing taking place for the last week
I don't think so. March to Spalding closed 40 years ago, its land has been sold off, built upon with houses, businesses, a large prison and returned to farmland, bridges have been demolished and roads built along the former trackbed.
@@EM-yk1dw Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If it had still been open it would still have cost a considerable amount in modernisation. March to Spalding is 20 miles, via Werrington Junction it is 31 miles. Is the reinstatement of 20 miles of 'new railway' worthwhile to gain 11 miles less distance/travelling time? I don't think it is. Then there is the future cost of maintaining two open lines. ..........and if we fall out with China there will not be any container trains full of crap to move anyway.😁
