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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
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New Road, Digswell
Heading south west.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 3 Sep 2016
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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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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
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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
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Harmer Green Lane, Digswell
Outside Welwyn North Station
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 14 Nov 2021
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Houses on New Road, Digswell
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 station, with Up train, ECML 1992
View northward from footbridge, towards Hitchin and the North: ex-GNR London - Doncaster section of the East Coast Main Line. This is a very busy section needing widening, but which has to remain two-track only because of the expense of the widening the Welwyn Viaduct and two Tunnels. Electrification King's Cross - Hitchin dates from 1976 and the local train approaching is a Class 317 EMU.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 14 May 1992
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Welwyn North Railway Station
Looking north east from the footbridge.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 3 Sep 2016
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