Date: 10/04/2012

THOUSANDS of passengers on the East Coast Mainline are experiencing hours of delays after a man’s body was found on the track. British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to South Otterington, near Northallerton, when the driver of a Transpennine Express Cross Country train spotted the body near the village’s disused station at 7.55am today. It is not known whether the man had been hit by an earlier train. Yorkshire Ambulance Service attended the incident, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Lengthy delays after body found on railway line

Northern Echo

THOUSANDS of passengers on the East Coast Mainline are experiencing hours of delays after a mans body was found on the track.

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Shortly after leaving the East Coast main line at Cordio Junction the line to Leeds via Ripon and Harrogate crossed the A167 road south of North Otterington village before reaching the first station south at Newby Wiske. The view looking south shows a section of the lengthy stretch of embankment that runs south west from the former rail overbridge towards Newby Wiske. The approach from the north was mostly on the level or a shallow embankment, and the short built up section just before the bridge has been profiled down some 10m back from the road. Nothing remains of the bridge, where a vehicle can be seen parked where an abutment would have been.
Location: Otterington
Company: North Eastern Railway
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A CrossCountry Voyager passing Otterington on the down ECML approaching Northallerton on 3 October 2008. The station closed to passenger traffic in 1958 and is now, along with the signal box, goods yard and Mk2C BFK coach, in private ownership. The historic signal box dates from the 1930s and played a key role in the development of colour light signalling. A 1939 LNER publication urges passing rail travellers to note ...the first of the LNER wonder signal boxes...from here is controlled four and a half miles of track...the signalman sits at a control panel and electrically operates points and signals using small switches...
Location: Otterington
Company: North Eastern Railway
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