Nene Valley Railway arson attack

[High Dyke]

Sorry if this has been posted already.

Nene Valley Railway has confirmed its Orton Mere signal box is out of use following a string of suspected arson attacks, which took place across the Ortons, between Sunday and Monday night.

It happened on the same night as a number of cars were destroyed – incidents which police said could all be linked.

Nene Valley Railway says its signal box is ‘out of use’ after arson attack which will ‘impact’ future events

Nene Valley Railway’s Orton Mere signal box was targeted as part of a string of arson attacks across the Ortons

www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk

 

[Future]

Very heartened to hear two local schoolchildren have set up two funding pages for it - they have raised over 6 grand in total!

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Edit: further phots of the damage — block instrument is absolutely destroyed

 

[Intercity110]

Will they have to do some token working? Or were they doing that already

 

[30907]

Will they have to do some token working? Or were they doing that already

It's a crossing point on a single line, so presumably that was normal.

Fortunately it seems the crossing loop isn't required on ordinary running days, so clipping and padlocking the points and temporarily working Wansford-Peterborough as one section would be OK.

 

[High Dyke]

It's a crossing point on a single line, so presumably that was normal.

Fortunately it seems the crossing loop isn't required on ordinary running days, so clipping and padlocking the points and temporarily working Wansford-Peterborpugh as one section would be OK.

On quieter days the box is/was switched out, using a King lever. The two respective train staff/token were clipped to one another, so it just made the one section, as mentioned above.