91120 just catches some summer sun but this does create some awkward lighting and contrast issues, as it approaches Oakleigh Park station with the 14.30 1N21 King's Cross to Newcastle. The twenty-nine chain long Barnet Tunnel can be seen in the background, one of a number of this section of track. This one, along with the others started out as single bores when the railway was opened in the 1870s but within twenty years another bore was dug as the track layout went from double to quadruple to cope with the massive rise in traffic, something that the Great Northern had not reckoned on....sound familiar?
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