The 06.56 Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross approaches Marholm just north of Peterborough worked by Azuma 801207. Notice buried in the grass to the left adjacent to the electrical boxes the eighty-miles post indicating the distance from King's Cross. Just by way of comparison, the same distance on the other main arterial routes from London are as follows:-
GEML - Stowmarket
MML - Market Harborough
WCML - Hillmorton Junction (Rugby)
Chiltern Mainline - Hatton (Warwickshire)
GWML - Just west of Swindon
SWML - Millbrook (Southampton)
North Kent line (as the SEML does not quite extend that far with Dover at seventy-seven miles!) - Ramsgate
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