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Helpston signal box Helpston signal box on the 16th August 2010 Helpston signal box is to the north of Peterborough and was built by the GNR on the East Coast Main line. The Midland Railway had its own signal box here on the Peterborough to Leicester line. The Great Northern signal box opened in 1998 and replaced a earlier box. This box was made bigger in 1923. In around early 1970s the frame was removed and replced with a panel to work the gates as part of the East Coast resignalling ready for the overhead wires. The signals were replaced with colour lights to be controlled from the then new Peterborough power box. Helpston signal box is still open today (2015) but now only controls the barriers at this very busy level crossing.
Helpston is a village on the The East Coast Main Line main line just to the north of Peterborough. The ECML runs from London to Edinburgh. The G.N.R and then the L.N.E.R used to run this line be for BR. This line has now been electrified, and is one of the top railways in the U.K. At Helpston the Peterborough to Leicester line which has run along side the ECML since Peterborough station heads westwards towards Stamford and away from ECML at the north of the village. This line runs to the rear of the GNR signal box. The ECML down slow uses the Leicester line down line from Peterborough to Helpston be for then rejoining the ECML in front of the signal box. There are over head wires on the Leicester line down line only, up to Helpston. There was a Helpston station, it was on the Midland railways Leicester line only, It is now closed. Rear of Helpston signal box. There is only a small window at the rear of the box as a Mildland Railway signal box controlled the Leicester line in the forground. One would have thought that the windows would have been made clear to give the gate person a better view of the road barriers were I am standing. Helpston is a village on the The East Coast Main Line main line just to the north of Peterborough. The ECML runs from London to Edinburgh. The G.N.R and then the L.N.E.R used to run this line be for BR. This line has now been electrified, and is one of the top railways in the U.K. |
Helpston Tornado on The Cathedrals Express 30th of June in 2012, at Lolham crossing Tornado day 1 of The Cathedrals Explorer 18th May ECML Helpston 2012 Oliver Cromwell on The Peak Forester on Sunday 29th May 2012 |
This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways, but it is not just on trains, but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taken photos.
Today EWS, East Coast, Central trains and EWS are just some of the names on the trains. The name on the train does not mean, thats whos train it is these days. These names keep changing, but that means I have to keep taking photos. I also take photos of preserved railways with steam diesel and electric trains.There is lots more to add and I keep taking More!