Peterborough to Lincoln via Spalding – Hastings DEMU cab ride — 1 July 2017 – audio from back cab

Cleethorpes Clipper part 5: Cab view from Peterborough to Lincoln via Spalding – over 54 miles through fenland countryside in an hour. Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 1 July 2017, during our Cleethorpes Clipper railtour.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. The audio track is from a synchronised recording made in the back cab (motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells); this is because of traincrew conversing in the leading cab.
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In this video we run briefly down the East Coast Main Line from Peterborough to Werrington Junction, where we turn right and follow the old Lincolnshire Loop Line north-eastwards to Spalding. There the line curves north-west on the Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Line to Sleaford which we bypass on the recently upgraded avoiding-line. The railway continues broadly north for the remaining miles, climbing out of the fenland at last before descending into Lincoln where our train would then reverse.
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Much of this route was closed to passengers but since re-opened: Peterborough to Spalding services were withdrawn in October 1970 but reinstated the following June; Ruskington and Metheringham stations were closed for some 14 years to 1975; the only services north of Spalding towards Sleaford run in the daytime on weekdays and Saturdays. This was thought to be to reduce costs associated with operating many staffed level crossings; as the video shows, most of the crossings are now automated or remotely controlled.
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0:00 - PETERBOROUGH station
1:21 - Spital Junction
3:55 - New England North Junction
6:19 - Werrington Junction
10:15 - Peakirk
12:10 - St James Deeping
16:05 - Littleworth
21:53 - Spalding former junctions and station
24:36 - Pinchbeck
27:23 - Gosberton
30:40 - Donington Road
35:04 - Helpringham
39:40 - Sleaford South Junction
42:17 - Sleaford North Junction
44:58 - Ruskington station
47:27 - Digby
49:22 - Scopwick & Timberland
51:39 - Metherhingham station
53:18 - Nocton & Duston
55:25 - Potterhanworth
57:20 - Branston & Heighington
58:55 - Site of Greetwell East Junction
1:01:07 - Sincil Junction
1:01:40 - Pelham Street Junction
1:01:59 - LINCOLN
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017 Hastings Diesels Limited.
http://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; back-cab audio by Tascam DR-44WL courtesy of   / moretojack   , processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free).

A very interesting set of photos & a map depicting the former railways of Lincoln is here: http://www.roscalen.com/signals/Linco...
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Here are links to annotated extracts from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix:
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Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5jjmb9uee2...
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Return: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fmu0xdqagx...