"Hitchin station, ECML 1992." View northward on the Down main platform, towards Peterborough and the North on the ex-GNR East Coast Main Line, electrified throughout by 1991 (to Hitchin in 1976). Nevertheless it is an IC125 DMU rushing through on the Up Main. he electrified line to Cambridge branched off to the right on a flat junction just ahead, and the Class 317 EMU at the platform is waiting for a path. Prior to 12/63, trains to Bedford by the ex-Midland branched off to the left.