Update 11th February

Braved the snowy conditions and a very cold day to visit the Cadwell Lane end of the site.  Although it was very cold, supposedly -10C during the night, it was actually quite pleasant walking in the bright sunshine on the crisp snow.  The removal of the former Bedford line embankment had continued and is about halfway to the bridge by the scrapyard.  There is more heavy plant on site to do this than at my last visit and yet the progress is relatively slow.  I am sure that the Victorian navvies that built this had very little in the way of mechanised assistance.   The first photo shows the extent of the removal work.  The site toilets have been moved up to the site container.  Behind is a passing East Coast express still in its old GNER livery heading towards London.

The scrapyard is immediately to my right.  The gas main trench has now been filled in.

Looking back towards the scrapyard from further north.  The new permanent security fence has reached this spot now.  Immediately in front is the filled in gas main trench.

More spoil has been deposited on the triangle, some of it actually on the pegged out line of the new viaduct.

Turning around and looking back along the line of the removed embankment

Finally a shot from Bury Mead Road looking across the redundant part of the Anglian Water treatment works.  Yet another GNER liveried East Coast service is heading north.  The locomotive is passing the scrapyard behind the tall trees to the left.  You can quite clearly see the lower Bedford embankment below the passing train.  The extreme right of the photo is where the new line will leave the main line and start its climb up to the viaduct.