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©Christine Matthews
©Christine Matthews
©Alex McGregor
©Alex McGregor
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©Alex McGregor
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©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.2km<br/>View northward to Welwyn South Tunnel and towards Hitchin, Peterborough and the North, East Coast Main Line: it is on the three-mile two-track bottleneck of this busy trunk route across Digswell Viaduct and through two tunnels. The freight is a Class H, headed by ex-War Department 2-8-0 No. 90287.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.2km<br/>View northward, towards Hitchin and the North; ex-Great Northern ECML. The train is probably from Cambridge, via Hitchin, to King's Cross, typically - in those days - headed by a B1 4-6-0, No. 61099. This was a two-track bottleneck on the ECML, which still exists today owing to the cost of duplicating a large viaduct and two tunnels.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.2km<br/>Despite Digswell being the nearest village the station was opened as Welwyn by the Great Northern Railway in 1850, only becoming Welwyn North when the station in Welwyn Garden City was opened in 1926. In the distance the railway disappears into the southern of the two Welwyn tunnels. The area on the left was once a goods yard but is now one of the station car parks.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>The footbridge with its fine metal latticework is a Grade II listed structure, but the view of it is ruined by the addition of the metal security screen, the untidy stringing of a cable duct across it, and the modern lamps, not to mention the overhead track electrification cables strung underneath it. The whole structure, on this side at least, is painted in a uniform battleship grey. There is a dilemma here. Network Rail need to maintain a working environment that is safe for both railway passengers and staff and which is efficiently engineered whilst having a duty of care for the infrastructure of historical merit that they have inherited from the railway operating companies in the past. How do they achieve that? Discuss! The brick building on the right is the south end of the main 1850 built station, a front view of which is here [[1555927]].
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>The upper windows are now boarded up but Welwyn North, once just Welwyn, is a rare surviving example of the former Great Northern Railway's style of station architecture, dating from 1850. It is a Grade II listed building. This is a view from the east side of the station and from Harmer Green Lane.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Viewed from directly above the south portal of Welwyn South tunnel.
©John Lucas
Dist:0.2km<br/>View northward, towards Hitchin and Cambridge and Grantham, Doncaster and the North; ex-Great Northern ECML. The locomotive is LNE B17/2 'Footballer' No. 61653 'Huddersfield Town' in clean ex-Works condition. The train is emerging from the southern of the two Welwyn Tunnels. (See also [[[2295036]]]).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken from the footpath that runs along the top of the tunnel the return sand empties from Kings Cross goods head back north to Fen Drayton. Welwyn North station can be seen in the background.This is still a bottle neck on the East Coast railway and causes delay as either side of the tunnels and viaduct the line returns to four tracks.
©roger geach
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©David Howard

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