I am not too sure as to how I had the confidence to get to this spot at Wellingborough Junction a fair way south of the station platform ends? Standing in this location now would put me at the very end of the station's huge and extended car park. The truncated lines off to the right once led the short distance to Wellingborurgh London Road station just near to the Whitworth Mills. Here they joined the line from Peterborough, the western end of which is now part of the Nene Valley Railway, that led westwards to Northampton. If only this line remained open today it would ease the chronic congestion caused by commuters travelling along the A45 to and from Northampton. 45156 is seen leading the 18.10 St. Pancras to Nottingham past the rather austere wartime designed and built signal box dating from 1943. Unfortunately, there is a little motion blur of the Peak spoiling what is otherwise a photograph taken on a perfect late summer evening.
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