By the early evening, the light had really dropped a situation made even worse as I am now located in a deep cutting at Great Ponton on the northern flank of Stoke bank just south of Grantham. 55007 'Pinza' descends Stoke leading one of the ECML's few named trains, the fabled Hull Executive. This crack express, that on launch in 1978, had to maintain an average speed of over ninety-one miles per hour between London and Retford. However, by the summer 1980 timetable, it was re-timed to leave King's Cross at 17.05 running now with three stops at Newark, Retford and Doncaster until it reached Humberside with stops at Goole and Brough.
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