00:00Music
00:13So the supervisor, observing the starting signal is green, turns the CD key to tell driver Daryl to close doors.
00:21We're good to go.
00:23We enter Gasworks Tunnel via route F.
00:26But the LED indication shows route E, which we'll cross over to shortly.
00:40It's booked in your platform and I've got no other platforms. Yeah.
00:44We can see our train on Andy's computer screen, weaving across the junctions.
00:48To our right, we can see the 1874 built Northern City Line, where Great Northern Moorgate services converge just before Fensbury Park Station.
00:57We're now at the infamous East Coast Main Line Bottleneck.
01:09This magnificent 40 arch structure was designed by Lewis Cubitt, the man responsible for the design of King's Cross's train shed.
01:16Nowadays, with the building of a large loop and flyover, our train can cross over the top of the uplines without conflict.
01:32Claimed to be the first such garden city in the world, with its neatly planned streets and wide green spaces, Letchworth Station opened in 1905, though was rebuilt further east just eight years later.
01:52Our final look at one of the Rock's computer screens shows our train out of section and showing one Tango 3-0 appearing on Cambridge's panel.
02:06Chesterton Junction leads to a DB Schenker operated aggregate terminal.
02:17Kings Lynn services now call at all stations.
02:21Cambridge North is the newest on our route, opening on the 21st of May 2017.
02:27Managed by Greater Anglia, it has three platforms, including a south-facing bay for terminating semi-fast and stopping services from Liverpool Street.
02:36Three miles of dead level and dead straight track take us past milepost 60, measured from London Liverpool Street.
02:55With the hourly up train having vacated the next section, a single line, Peter now offers our train to Downham Market.
03:11The last five miles revert to single line, the first four of which are dead straight and level, enabling the line speed of 90 miles an hour.
03:24Travelling around the outskirts of Kings Lynn, we begin a long sweeping curve, taking the line from a north-easterly heading to due west by the time we reach the terminus.
03:4211th October 6th, the end of August 14th of October 7-1,196-288-0013,
03:49The last four months of the year from the year from the capital is October of 2020.
03:54The last two months of the year from the year from the country before the year, the last one from the country before the year from setup is the start of the year of the year from the year from the year from the year from the day.
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