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"Great North Road: cycling the old route from London to Edinburgh"
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Posted 4 years ago #
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And this, written by one of the guys on the SABRE forum:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-North-Road-Then-Now/dp/1870067797/
Posted 4 years ago # -
Did most of the guardian article route. Belford has a toy shop full of middle class wooden toys
Posted 4 years ago # -
The disused goods yard at Belford Station* contains the remains of some North Eastern Railway coal drops - characteristic of that pre-grouping railway company.
The level crossing there always gives me the wig: I know the likelihood of a wrong side failure is infinitesimal, but the trains on that bit of the ECML go at a heck of a lick...
* Also disused, as in trains no longer stop there. The station building is being operated as a B&B.
Posted 4 years ago # -
You should try (or not) the level crossing near Haggerston. It's probably semi-private use, where you have to open and close big metal gates as you cross. I can't remember if it has a siren or not, but it was heart in mouth time when I used it. I'd cycled up the cratered, unpaved road from Beal in order to avoid traipsing across the fields per my outward route from Goswick on NCN1, and couldn't be doing with retracing my steps.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Arellcat- is that West Goswick Farm Level Crossing (near Haggerston)? I had planned to use the track alongside the railway north from Beal last year, to avoid some of the muddy path that is NCN1. But at the south end of the track there was a notice saying “West Goswick Farm Level Crossing is now closed! You cannot cross the railway beyond this point”
Posted 3 years ago # -
That's the one. I don't remember if it was closed or 'closed' when I was there, which was four years ago.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Maybe too many people died crossing the east coast mainline?
I have been in the muddy fields though, they are quite muddy but end at Spittal which is a nice suburb of Berwick. Very flat.
Posted 3 years ago #
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