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Holme
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'Holme'
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' Holme Lode on 27th October 2014 '
East Coast down train on the 27th of October 2014 at Holme Fen on the ECML
Sky 1 HD East Coast DVT on a up train at Holme Lode on th 27th of October 2014
This East Coast set was all done up in Sky blue with Sky 1 HD logos.
Class 66250 at Holme Lode on the 27th October 2014
East Coast HST 43299 on th 27th of October 2014
Railways at Holme
Holme is a small village next to the ECML between Peterborough and Huntingdon and it is spelt with a L. Holme village is in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire.
Holme had its own railway station and a branch line to Ramsey. Both the station and the branch line are now closed. Yaxley village and Peterborough are to the north and Connington crossing is to the south (about a mile from the village).
The land in fens around Holme is black 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. It was level with the land when it was built. They may have kept adding soil or ballast to kept the track level over the years.
The level crossing in the Holme village has a gate box that was a replacement when the old signal boxe went. Holme vilage is to on the west of this crossing.
Conington Airfield or as it is now called Peterborough Business Airport is between Holme vilage and Conington.
To the south of Holme village is a level crossing at Conington. Most mainline steam heading north stop on the down slow between Holme and Conington crossings to top up with water from a water tanker, as there are now no water cranes now on the ECML
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Holme Lode barriers in 2014
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Signal boxes that were along this part of the ECML
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Page updated 28/10/2021
