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New Road, Digswell
Heading south west.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 3 Sep 2016
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Houses on New Road, Digswell
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 3 Sep 2016
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The view from on top of the tunnel
Taken from the footpath that runs along the top of the tunnel the return sand empties from Kings Cross goods head back north to Fen Drayton. Welwyn North station can be seen in the background.This is still a bottle neck on the East Coast railway and causes delay as either side of the tunnels and viaduct the line returns to four tracks.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: Unknown
0.15 miles
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Up Cambridge express at Welwyn North
View northward, towards Hitchin and Cambridge and Grantham, Doncaster and the North; ex-Great Northern ECML. The locomotive is LNE B17/2 'Footballer' No. 61653 'Huddersfield Town' in clean ex-Works condition. The train is emerging from the southern of the two Welwyn Tunnels. (See also
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 2 Jun 1951
0.19 miles
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Welwyn North Station
Viewed from directly above the south portal of Welwyn South tunnel.
Image: © John Lucas
Taken: 14 Jul 2010
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Harmer Green Lane, Digswell
Outside Welwyn North Station
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 14 Nov 2021
0.19 miles
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Welwyn North Station, with an Up stopping train
View northward, towards Hitchin and the North; ex-Great Northern ECML. The train is probably from Cambridge, via Hitchin, to King's Cross, typically - in those days - headed by a B1 4-6-0, No. 61099. This was a two-track bottleneck on the ECML, which still exists today owing to the cost of duplicating a large viaduct and two tunnels.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 2 Jun 1951
0.20 miles
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New Road, Harmer Green
Looking south west.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 3 Sep 2016
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Welwyn North railway station (1)
Despite Digswell being the nearest village the station was opened as Welwyn by the Great Northern Railway in 1850, only becoming Welwyn North when the station in Welwyn Garden City was opened in 1926. In the distance the railway disappears into the southern of the two Welwyn tunnels. The area on the left was once a goods yard but is now one of the station car parks.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 25 Oct 2009
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Welwyn North railway station (2)
The upper windows are now boarded up but Welwyn North, once just Welwyn, is a rare surviving example of the former Great Northern Railway's style of station architecture, dating from 1850. It is a Grade II listed building. This is a view from the east side of the station and from Harmer Green Lane.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 25 Oct 2009
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