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Conington level crossing
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'Conington'
2007
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'Conington in 2007 '
GNER class 91109 in August 2007 when was it named "The Samaritains" at Conington on the ECML.
This class 91 was in 2011 repainted in the East Coast silver grey, and was then named "Sir Bobby Robson" after the famous football manager.
GNER County of Durham at Conington on a up train to London in August 2007
GNER class 91 on a down train at Conington in 2007 on the down fast.
GNER HST on the up line at Conington in 2007
GNER
Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) was a train operating company that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise on the East Coast Main Line from April 1996 until December 2007. GNER was owned by Sea Containers.
Conington
Conington is a small village that never had a station in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire. The village is a long way from the crossing. This railway crossing is to the south of Holme vilage. Conington Airfield or as it is now called Peterborough Business Airport and is between the crossing and Holme vilage and light aircraft take off and land over the ECML.
Holme village is just to the north of the Conington crossing and Mainline steam trains stop between Conington and Holme on the down slow and going south (up) in the Conington tip loops.

Conington Level Crossing

Signal boxes that were along this part of the ECML
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