Image Signalling, French Drove
Signalling, French Drove
Signalling, French Drove The view looking north from French Drove on the former GN & GE Joint line reveals two passing loops on both the up and down lines. These were installed to permit slow freight trains to be recessed permitting faster trains to pass. These may well have seen use in busier times such as during WWII but I suspect that just eighteen months before the closure of the Spalding to March line they did not see much, if any, use! This view conveys a little of the antiquated nature of the nineteen-mile-long route between March and Spalding with its LNER concrete signal posts and mile after mile of telegraph wires stretching across the Fenland countryside. Keywords: Signalling French Drove
Signalling, French Drove The view looking north from French Drove on the former GN & GE Joint line reveals two passing loops on both the up and down lines. These were installed to permit slow freight trains to be recessed permitting faster trains to pass. These may well have seen use in busier times such as during WWII but I suspect that just eighteen months before the closure of the Spalding to March line they did not see much, if any, use! This view conveys a little of the antiquated nature of the nineteen-mile-long route between March and Spalding with its LNER concrete signal posts and mile after mile of telegraph wires stretching across the Fenland countryside. Keywords: Signalling French Drove


The view looking north from French Drove on the former

GN & GE Joint line reveals two passing loops on both the up and down lines. These were installed to permit slow freight trains to be recessed permitting faster trains to pass. These may well have seen use in busier times such as during WWII but I suspect that just eighteen months before the closure of the Spalding to March line they did not see much, if any, use! This view conveys a little of the antiquated nature of the nineteen-mile-long route between March and Spalding with its LNER concrete signal posts and mile after mile of telegraph wires stretching across the Fenland countryside.