Lincoln to Peterborough via Spalding — Hastings DEMU cab ride — 1 July 2017

Cleethorpes Clipper part 8: Cab view from Lincoln to Peterborough – over 54 miles in just over an hour across the fenlands of Lincolnshire. Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 1 July 2017, during the return leg of our Cleethorpes Clipper railtour. . Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells. The audio track is largely from a synchronised recording made in the back cab (motor coach 60116 Mountfield) because of traincrew conversing in the leading cab; however at certain moments the leading-cab audio is used (a notification appears on screen when the audio source is switched over). . In this video we depart Lincoln eastwards following a reversal off the Grimsby route, and proceed over the Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Line; this soon turns south, we bypass Sleaford on its avoiding-line, and continue to Spalding where we join the route of the Great Northern's Lincolnshire Loop Line, heading south-west to Werrington Junction and the East Coast Main Line for the short run into Peterborough. . Much of this route was closed to passengers but since re-opened: Peterborough to Spalding services were withdrawn in October 1970 but reinstated the following June; Ruskington and Metheringham stations were closed for some 14 years to 1975; the only services north of Spalding towards Sleaford run in the daytime on weekdays and Saturdays. This was thought to be to reduce costs associated with operating many staffed level crossings; as the video shows, most of the crossings are now automated or remotely controlled. . 0:00 – LINCOLN CENTRAL 1:19 – Pelham Street Junction 2:01 – Sincil Junction (site of) 3:25 – Greetwell West Junction (site of) 4:27 – Greetwell East Junction (site of) 6:52 – Branston & Heighington 9:12 – Potterhanworth 11:26 – Nocton & Duston 12:54 – Metheringham station 15:03 – Scopwick & Timberland 16:58 – Digby 19:23 – Ruskington station 21:09 – Sleaford North Junction 23:05 – Sleaford South Junction 26:58 – Helpringham 31:49 – Donington Road 34:51 – Gosberton 37:27 – Pinchbeck 39:22 – Spalding North Junction (site of) 39:49 – Spalding station 40:13 – Spalding South Junction (site of) 45:23 – Littleworth 49:10 – St James Deeping 50:41 – Peakirk 54:20 – Werrington Junction 48:06 – New England North Junction 1:02:01 – PETERBOROUGH . Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited. https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/ . Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; back-cab audio by Tascam DR-44WL courtesy of   / moretojack   ; processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free). . Parts 1 to 7 of this tour (comprising continuous footage from Kensington (Olympia) to Cleethorpes, and back to Lincoln, are already available on this channel. Further parts of the return journey are expected to be published in due course (at the time of this publication). . Here are links to annotated extracts from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix: . Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5jjmb9uee2... . Return: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fmu0xdqagx...