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'Peterborough'
'2000-2013'
Yaxley
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Large full page list Peterborough 200 to 2013
The new build LNER A1 60163 Tornado still in its British Railways Green at Yaxley heading north.
I have started at the south of Peterborough at the village of Yaxley and worked northwards.
A National Express HST 43312 at Yaxley on a up train at the same spot heading for London.
Yaxley is a village to the south of Peterborough . Yaxley had a railway station which is now closed. This was called Yaxley and Farcet. Both villages were a lot smaller then, with 100s of houses built in Yaxley since the war.
Between Yaxley and Peterborough The London Brick Company made 1,000s of bricks. There used to be brick works all the way between Yaxley Farcet and Peterborough in BR days along the ECML,. All these have now closed. There is a page in BR days on Yaxley This land is now being built on with the Hampton township and some is The Crown Lakes Country Park were I have some pages on the ECML next to it.
The land to the east of Yaxley is fen peat and is some of the lowest and best farming land in England. The track was laid on reed and wooden rafts and has not sunk like the land around. The ECML is now on a embankment from Yaxley to Holme . Some of railway was level with the land when it was built. They have kept adding soil, and or ballast to kept the track level.
70013 Oliver Cromwell on The Lindum Christmas Fayre on the 3rd December 2011
Being December it was a very windy day. The flat Fens can do do nothing to stop the wind. Oliver Cromwell was working hard.
Oliver Cromell is part of the National Collection and was built at Crewe works in 1951. It a British Railways Standard class Britannia 4-6-2 steam locomotive. This train called The Lindum Christmas Fayre was going to have A4 LNER A4 4-6-2 number 4492 Dominion of New Zealand but the locomotive was changed to save a light engine movement.
A4 60019 Union of South Africa at Yaxley (still from video below)
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The Video below is of is of A4 60019 Union of South Africa at Yaxley Great Drove and Abbots Ripton on a very dull day, that turned to rain as the train got towards Abbots Ripton.
'The Tynesider' was on on Staturday the 24th of November 2012 and had A4 60019 Union of South Africa for its second leg from York to London Kings Cross. The first leg was to have had another A4 Sir Nigel Grseley from Newcastle to York, but class 47207 had to haul this part when the A4 failed the day be for.
I shot this video on the ECML at Great Drove at Yaxley and then at Abbots Ripton after the water stop .Nice to see Union of South Africa back on the ECML in BR green after its overhaul. The class 47 on the rear was used on the return leg back to Newcastle.
Yaxley
Yaxley is a village to the south of Peterborough . Yaxley had a railway station which is now closed.
Between Yaxley and Peterborough The London Brick Company made 1,000s of bricks between Yaxley and Peterborough the ECML was lined with brick works. All these have now closed.There are photos in BR days on this site north of Yaxley This land is now being built on with the Hampton township.
The land to the east of Yaxley is fen peat and is some of the lowest and best farming land in England. The track was laid on reed and wooden rafts and has not sunk like the land around. The ECML is now on a embankment from Yaxley to Holme . Some of railway was level with the land when it was built. They have kept adding soil, and or ballast to kept the track level.
Large full page list Peterborough 200 to 2013
| Peterborough 2000 to 2013 |
| YAXLEY Crown Lakes Just south of Station |
| Platform 1 (Bay Platform) Platform 2 1 2 3 4 |
| Platform 3 1 2 3 Fast Lines 1 2 3 |
| Platform 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 Platform 5 1 2 3 4 |
| Goods loops 1 2 3 Depot 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
| Westwood Yard North of Station Werrington |
| PETERBOROUGH TO MARCH LINE PAGE |
| LEICESTER TO PETERBOROUGH LINE LIST PAGE |
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