Image 170116, XC 13.00 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street (1N55, 1L), Wymondham crossing
170116, XC 13.00 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street (1N55, 1L), Wymondham crossing
170116, XC 13.00 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street (1N55, 1L), Wymondham crossing 170116 works the 13.00 Cambridge to Birmingham New Street on the approach to Wymondham level crossing. After a long section of straight track from Oakham, the train will then take the curiously named Lord Harborough's Curve taking the line westwards again towards Melton Mowbray. This sharp curve, even less so now after the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway realigned it, was as a result of the refusal of the then landowner, the sixth Earl of Harborough, to allow the line through his land and to partially take the alignment of the Oakham Canal of which he was a shareholder. Keywords: 170116 13.00 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street 1N55 Wymondham crossing CrossCountry XC
170116, XC 13.00 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street (1N55, 1L), Wymondham crossing 170116 works the 13.00 Cambridge to Birmingham New Street on the approach to Wymondham level crossing. After a long section of straight track from Oakham, the train will then take the curiously named Lord Harborough's Curve taking the line westwards again towards Melton Mowbray. This sharp curve, even less so now after the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway realigned it, was as a result of the refusal of the then landowner, the sixth Earl of Harborough, to allow the line through his land and to partially take the alignment of the Oakham Canal of which he was a shareholder. Keywords: 170116 13.00 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street 1N55 Wymondham crossing CrossCountry XC


170116 works the 13.00 Cambridge to Birmingham New Street on

the approach to Wymondham level crossing. After a long section of straight track from Oakham, the train will then take the curiously named Lord Harborough's Curve taking the line westwards again towards Melton Mowbray. This sharp curve, even less so now after the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway realigned it, was as a result of the refusal of the then landowner, the sixth Earl of Harborough, to allow the line through his land and to partially take the alignment of the Oakham Canal of which he was a shareholder.