The Alconbury Airfield (Rail Facilities and Connection to East Coast Main Line) Order 2003

Articles 5 and 6

SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULED WORKS

In the district of Huntingdonshire in the county of Cambridgeshire:—

• Work No. 1—A railway 946.5 metres in length commencing at a point corresponding to Ordnance Survey grid reference 522569 (E) and 275930 (N) and running in an easterly and then northerly direction by cutting before terminating approximately 95 metres north of milepost 61¾ by a junction with the East Coast Main Line railway. At chainage 30 metres branching to form two sidings a total of 130 metres in length. At chainage 61 metres branching to form a siding of 292 metres in length. At chainage 879 metres branching to form a siding of 67 metres in length.

• Work No. 2—A railway 1,334 metres in length commencing by a junction with Work No. 1, and running in a south-easterly and then southerly direction by cutting before terminating at a point approximately 14 metres south of milepost 61 by a junction with the East Coast Main Line railway. At chainage 1,274 metres branching to form a siding of 55 metres in length. An overbridge with a span of 10.5 metres and a width of 6 metres to carry a bridleway over the railway. An overbridge with a span of 35 metres to carry a re-routed public footpath over the railway. The extension of an existing culvert carrying a watercourse under the East Coast Main Line railway along the line of the watercourse by 15 metres.

• Work No. 3—A railway 1,517.2 metres in length commencing by a junction with Work No. 2, and running in a south-easterly, then east-south-easterly and then southerly direction by part cutting and part embankment before terminating approximately 152 metres south of milepost 61 by a junction with the East Coast Main Line railway. At chainage 1,457 metres branching to form a siding of 55 metres in length. An overbridge with a span of 10.5 metres and a width of 6 metres to carry a bridleway over the railway. An overbridge with a span of 33.5 metres to carry the railway over the East Coast Main Line railway. The extension of an existing culvert carrying a watercourse under the East Coast Main Line railway along the line of the watercourse by 35 metres.

• Work No. 4—A railway 1,062 metres in length commencing at a point corresponding to Ordnance Survey grid reference 522569 (E) and 275930 (N), the point of commencement for Work Nos. 1 and 5, and running in a north-westerly direction by cutting, forming sidings between chainages 25.4 and 1,062, before terminating at a point corresponding to Ordnance Survey grid reference 521569 (E) and 276294 (N). At chainage 1,062 metres branching to form a siding of 140 metres in length.

• Work No. 5—A railway 1,887.6 metres in length, commencing at a point corresponding to Ordnance Survey grid reference 522569 (E) and 275930 (N), the point of commencement for Work Nos. 1 and 4, and running in an easterly and then north-westerly direction by part cutting and part embankment before terminating at a point corresponding to Ordnance Survey grid reference 521436 (E) and 276838 (N).

• Work No. 6—A railway 813.5 metres in length commencing at the termination of Work No. 5, and running in a north-westerly direction by cutting, forming sidings between chainages 0 and 740 metres, before terminating at a point corresponding to Ordnance Survey grid reference 520684 (E) and 277149 (N).

• Work No. 7—A railway 324 metres in length commencing at a point approximately 52 metres north of milepost 62 by a junction with the East Coast Main Line railway and running in a north-north-westerly direction at grade before terminating 22 metres south of milepost 62¼ by a junction with the East Coast Main Line railway.