18th September 2005

Brach Line Society
The Peterborough Avoider

Train postponed (to 14/01/2006) due to late notification of routing issues by Network Rail (specifically, traversal of three sections of the planned route had been refused, one due to a query over ownership and the other two for reasons unexplained).

Planned route & locos:

Locos Route
2x EWS class 37 Ealing Broadway - Camden Road East Jn - Finsbury Park - Hertford - Hitchin - Sandy - Tallington - Grantham - Radcliffe- Colwick Total Oil depot gate
2x EWS class 37 Colwick Total Oil depot gate - Rectory Jn
2x EWS class 37 Rectory Jn - Alfreton - Chesterfield Goods Lines - Barrow Hill - Oxcroft Opencast (NR limit)
2x EWS class 37 Oxcroft Opencast (NR limit) - Foxlow Jn - Masborough Jn - Moorthorpe - Turners Lane Jn - Normanton - Woodlesford - Whitehall Jn - Ilkley
2x EWS class 37 Ilkley - Baildon - Bradford Foster Square
2x EWS class 37 Bradford Foster Square - Engine Shed Jun - Normanton - Turners Lane Jn - Adwick - Doncaster - Belmont Up West Reception - Decoy North Jn - Up Loversall Flyover - Grantham - Hitchin - Finsbury Park - Stratford - Ealing Broadway

Sources : various

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