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Memorial to Peterborough and District Post Office Staff
Image: © Julian Dowse
Taken: 14 Feb 2009
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Memorial to Peterborough and District Post Office Staff
Great War memorial and entrance to Peterborough Mail Centre, Papyrus Road, Peterborough PE4 5PE.
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Image: © Julian Dowse
Taken: 14 Feb 2009
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Royal Mail - Peterborough
A Royal Mail building next to the East Coast Mainline.
Image: © Ashley Dace
Taken: 11 Aug 2010
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Royal Mail Sorting Office
Image: © Antony Dixon
Taken: 4 Sep 2013
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Royal Mail, Peterborough
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 24 Aug 2014
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Drain by the railway line
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 17 Feb 2015
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Entrance to the railway dive under at Werrington Junction
The reconfigured track layout, known as the Werrington Grade Separation Plan, is seen here from the footbridge linking the A15 Werrington Parkway and Dukesmead with Stirling Way. The plan involved the construction of a new connection between the Stamford Lines and the Great Northern Great Eastern (GNGE) line.
Hitherto, trains joining or leaving the GNGE here were obliged to cross the East Coast Main Line (ECML), resulting in delays and bottlenecks. The Grade Separation Plan provided for a new three-kilometre line including an underpass (or "dive under") enabling trains to pass underneath the ECML. The tracks which pass through the "dive under" can be seen in the centre of the image. They rejoin the existing Peterborough to Lincoln section of the GNGE line at Glinton Junction, as it is designated by Network Rail from the name of the neighbouring village.
Work on the project, which cost a total of £200 million, commenced in the summer of 2018. The tunnel itself was created in January 2021 by pushing a curved concrete box weighing in excess of 11,000 tonnes and measuring 510 feet (155 metres) in length under the ECML with the aid of hydraulic jacks. The tunnel had been prefabricated in nine separate sections prior to installation. This represented the first time that this particular construction technique had been employed in the United Kingdom.
The "dive under" - which formed part of a £1.2 billion upgrade of the ECML - was formally inaugurated by the then Minister of State for Transport Chris Heaton-Harris on December 9th., 2021.
The Royal Mail building on the right of the image is the Peterborough Delivery Office and Mail Centre, which is the main sorting office for the PE post code area.
Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-55680675
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-59578414
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werrington_Dive_Under
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/east-coast/east-coast-upgrade/werrington-grade-separation/
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/morgan-sindall-mobilises-for-200m-werrington-dive-under
Image: © Paul Bryan
Taken: 3 Mar 2024
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Just south of Werrington Junction the Up 'Northumbrian' rushes towards Peterborough on the ECML, 1950
View NW, towards Grantham and the North, also towards Boston and Grimsby to the right at the Junction ahead; on the left is one of the many ECML Automatic Mail-exchange posts for the Travelling Post Office (TPO). The locomotive is Peppercorn A2 4-6-2 No. 60539 'Bronzino' (built with double-chimney 8/48, withdrawn 11/62).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 26 Aug 1950
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Pylon by the railway
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 17 Feb 2015
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Monument to Peter Brotherhood Ltd
Removed from the previous works and located outside the entrance to the new works. The three-legged object is a representation of the 3 cylinder radial engine that was patented by Peter Brotherhood and later adapted to power the Whitehead "automobile" torpedo.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Sep 2008
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