Route Great Northern London Kings Cross - Kings Lynn

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  1. Eee

    Eee Well-Known Member

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    INTRODUCTION

    Today I will be suggesting the Fen line operated by Great Northern (owned by Thameslink Govia Railway ). This route will have 33 stations in total and will be 87 miles (141 km) long.

    THE ROUTE
    The route starts in Kings Cross, located in Greater London, ending at Kings Lynn, located in East England.


    STATIONS

    London King's cross
    Finsbury Park
    Harringay
    Hornsey
    Alexandra Palace
    New Southgate
    Oakleigh Park
    New Barnet
    Hadley Wood
    Potters Bar
    Brookmans Park
    Welham Green
    Hatfield
    Welwyn Garden City
    Welwyn North
    Knebworth
    Stevenage
    Hitchin
    Letchworth Garden City
    Baldock
    Ashwell & Morden
    Royston
    Meldreth
    Shepreth
    Foxton
    Cambridge
    Cambridge North
    Waterbeach
    Ely
    Littleport
    Downham Market
    Watlington
    King's Lynn



    ROLLING STOCK




    387/1
    387/3
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    387115_Shepreth_Branch_Junc_210619.jpg The class 387, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works as part of the Electrostar family from 2014, 107 of these four car units were built with 74 387/1s, 27 387/2s, and 6 387/3s. This train has a maximum operating speed of 110 mph [177 km/h]. The safety systems used are TPWS/AWS and ETCS (for GN and GWR units only).


    717/0
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    The class 717/0 manufactured by Siemens Mobility from 2018 25 6 car trains were built with a maximum speed of this train is 85 mph (137 km/h) and the safety systems used are TPWS/AWS ATO, ETCS and Tripcock.

    LAYERS

    -700 doing services to Cambridge from kings cross and some services from Finsbury park to Stevenage or Cambridge

    -801 doing services from kings cross to Stevenage



    DLC

    The class 365/0

    SERVICES
    King's Cross - Ely duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
    Kings Cross - Letchworth Garden City duration: 50 minutes
    Kings Cross - Welwyn Garden City duration: 35 minutes
    Kings cross - Cambridge duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
    Kings Cross - Kings Lynn duration: 1 hour 52 minutes
    Moorgate (Finsbury Park) - Welwyn Garden City duration: 31 minutes


    DEPOTS

    -Hornsey Depot



    CONCLUSION

    Thanks for reading my suggestion hope you liked reading it

     
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  2. joffonon#1689

    joffonon#1689 Well-Known Member

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    Think you mean East England, not west!

    I'd welcome an east Anglian route.
     
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  3. Eee

    Eee Well-Known Member

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    That was an autocorrect thanks for the correction
     
  4. jack#9468

    jack#9468 Well-Known Member

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    Given the scope of the route, we'd miss out on ECML South ever appearing in its entirety. I'll still take it.
     
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  5. Eee

    Eee Well-Known Member

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    I agree I thought it'd be a nice route to drive and at least we'd get to see kings X if it came
     
  6. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Are you trying to resurrect a well-known ATS route in TSW 5 the Fen Line.
     
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