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Holme
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'Holme'
2021
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Holme crossing in 2021
60163 Tornado with a steam movment heading south on the 2nd of July 2021
at Holme level crossing on the ECML
60163 Tornado with a steam movment to the NRM on the 16th of July 2021
at Holme level crossing on the ECML
LNER Azuma at Holme level crossing on an up train to London on the 2nd July in 2021
LNER class 91111 at Holme on the ECML with a down train on 2nd of July 2021 .
Freightliner class 66557 at Holme level crossing on 2nd of July 2021 .
Thameslink class 700119 at Holme level crossing on the 21st August in 2021
DB class 66 128 at Holme Load level crossing on the 25th October in 2021
Railways at Holme
Holme is a small village next to the ECML between Peterborough and Huntingdon and it is spelt with a L. Holme village is in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire.
Holme had its own railway station and a branch line to Ramsey. Both the station and the branch line are now closed. Yaxley village and Peterborough are to the north and Connington crossing is to the south (about a mile from the village).
The land in fens around Holme is black fen peat and is some of the lowest and best farming land in England. The track was laid on reed and wooden rafts and has not sunk like the land around.
The ECML is now on a embankment. It was level with the land when it was built. They may have kept adding soil or ballast to kept the track level over the years.
The level crossing in the Holme village has a gate box that was a replacement when the old signal boxe went. Holme vilage is to on the west of this crossing.
Conington Airfield or as it is now called Peterborough Business Airport is between Holme vilage and Conington.
To the south of Holme village is a level crossing at Conington. Most mainline steam heading north stop on the down slow between Holme and Conington crossings to top up with water from a water tanker, as there are now no water cranes now on the ECML
Signal boxes that were along this part of the ECML
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Page updated 28/10/2021