{"id":26,"date":"2015-02-27T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roberthummbooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-10-09T14:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:53:45","slug":"stamford-station-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roberthummbooks.co.uk\/blog\/stamford-station-canopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamford Station Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Our railway – the line from Syston to Peterborough – is part of the rail\u00a0link between\u00a0Birmingham and\u00a0the port of\u00a0Felixstowe. We have always had a certain amount of goods traffic through Stamford, particularly the cement trains from Ketton just down the track, but since the line was upgraded to take container traffic our freight services have become faster, heavier and much more frequent.<\/p>\n

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The upgrading work involved the tunnel and platform alignments but after the container trains started using the line doubts were raised about the clearance of\u00a0the canopy fascia and it was removed as an interim precaution. This had an unexpected effect on the canopy itself, one which was spectacularly obvious from our kitchen window on the second floor. In the picture above of 66743 batting through Stamford with a long train of containers for Felixstowe, the\u00a0window can be glimpsed just below the bridge deck.\u00a0The kitchen\u00a0had a good view of the upper side of the canopy and of the updraught effect of\u00a0every passing container train, which caused the canopy to behave in a manner similar to Marilyn Monroe’s frock.<\/p>\n

We bleated about this to any Network Rail person who was prepared to listen and eventually someone came up to\u00a0our kitchen to see the effect for himself. He must have been properly startled because the canopy was rapidly removed and in a commendably short space of time designs for a replacement – with fascia – were submitted for listed building consent. The plans can be seen on the local authority web site :\u00a0the new designs are here<\/a>\u00a0and the whole application can be\u00a0found here. <\/a><\/p>\n

The proposed Midland Railway style canopy certainly looks a whole lot smarter than the old corrugated iron eyesore. Meanwhile NR have\u00a0lent us a bus shelter, so at least there can be\u00a0six dry passengers on each train.<\/p>\n

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Update (July 2015) The local authority granted listed building consent on 31 March. So far no visible progress, but\u00a0presumably the components have to be specially made before work can start.<\/p>\n

Update 2 (October 2015) Network Rail has revised its plans and submitted a new application.\u00a0I’m doing a\u00a0new post on this, currently in course of preparation.<\/p>\n

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