Trains at Acklington Station (Part Two)

With the weather forecast looking promising, I decided to break the monotony of the coronavirus lockdown by heading to Acklington station.

The station has a very infrequent service provided by Northern Trains. There are three services calling at Acklington on weekdays and Saturday. These are timed in the early morning and evening, and are mainly used by daily commuters going to Newcastle. There are no services on a Sunday. The maximum line speed through Acklington is 110 mph in each direction.

This afternoon we saw all the usual passenger services - LNER Azumas, CrossCountry Voyagers and Super Voyagers and TransPennine Express Nova 1s. After a bit of a freight drought this morning, things did get slightly better.

This afternoon saw the Mossend to Tees Dock intermodal (66109 hauling 4E98), a light engine move from Leeds Balm Road to Millerhill (66503 running as 0S68), and a light engine move from Doncaster Down Decoy to Millerhill (66768 running as 0S14).

The people living in the old station master's house have chickens in their garden, which is why you can hear a cockerel crowing at various times during the video.

Footage was captured using Panasonic HC-X920 fitted with a Rode VideoMic Go.

The following trains are captured in our footage at the times indicated:

- 1E13: LNER service from Inverness to London Kings Cross (0:14)

- 1S10: LNER service from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh (0:51)

- 1E14: LNER service from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross (1:21)

- 1W11: LNER service from London Kings Cross to Aberdeen (1:48)

- 4E98: DB Cargo service from Mossend Euroterminal to Tees Dock Bsc Export Berth (2:14)

- 9E12: TransPennine Express service from Edinburgh to Newcastle (3:07)

- 1E15: LNER service from Aberdeen to London Kings Cross (3:41)

- 1S39: CrossCountry service from Plymouth to Edinburgh (4:11)

- 1E16: LNER service from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross (4:31)

- 1S12: LNER service from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh (4:55)

- 1S13: LNER service from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh (5:38)

- 1V64: CrossCountry service from Edinburgh to Plymouth (6:04)

- 1E17: LNER service from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross (6:32)

- 9S11: TransPennine Express service from Newcastle to Edinburgh (6:49)

- 0S68: Freightliner service from Leeds Balm Rd Loco (Fhh) to Millerhill S.S. (7:17)

- 1S15: LNER service from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh (7:51)

- 1E18: LNER service from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross (8:23)

- 1W96: LNER service from London Kings Cross to Inverness (8:53)

- 1E19: LNER service from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross (9:27)

- 0S14: GB Railfreight service from Doncaster Down Decoy Gbrf to Millerhill S.S. (9:43)

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