To confirm: double track, southbound freight-only, northbound out-of-use (there's track there but it's overgrown). I found a message from aforementioned train driver on some Usenet archive somewhere:
> On Nov 7, 8:47=A0pm, allan tracy wrote: > > According to Gensheet, ECML rail services are diverted this weekend > > via Spalding, Sleaford, Lincoln, Doncaster. > > > > Report also sugests that southbound services will use the Sleaford > > avoiding line (currently only open for south bound traffic). > > > > If true rare track doesn't come much rarer than this. > > > > Is the avoiding line now back in regular use my understanding was not? > > HT will not be using the avoiding line at all as they are reversing at > Sleaford to run across to/from their booked call at Grantham. > > NXEC are unlikely to be using the avoiding line as a significant > amount of their road learning was done using the established > passenger service via Sleaford; however, some use was also made > of their Thunderbird locos for RL and so it's _possible_ that their > trains _may_ run southbound via the avoider. The Down Avoider > (northbound) is OOU. > > R. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
