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Kings Dyke signal box in 2004
 
Kings Dyke signal box in 2004
 
The box had just had new PVC windows fitted in 2004, together with a bit added to the side for the WC or is it a panel linked to the Peterborough Power box .
 
This box is still in use at Kings Dyke in 2016. It work's the barriers on the main road which is its next to, and also the road crossing at Funthhams lane with CTV.
 
When the main Peterborough to Whittlesea barriers are closed, there are very long tail backs of cars and lorrys.
 
Kings Dyke signal box
 
Kings Dyke signal box in the 1970s
 
These two photos were taken in the late 1970s. The houses have since been removed.
 
 
Kings Dyke signal box
 
This box controls the crossing on the Peterborough to Whittlesea road and the long tail backs of car here. were comon place here even in the 1970s
 
Talk of a bridge being built here to replace the level crossing has gone on for years, but nothing has come of it yet.
 
Next set of pages on the Peterborough to March Line is  Whittlesea 2020
 
The Peterborough to March Railway line
 
The railway line between Peterborough and March runs from Peterborough railway station and then across the River Nene past the NVR and under the ECML,  past the site of Peterborough East station.
 
Peterborough East was the main Great Eastern Railway Peterborough  station for this line. This station was closed and all services transferred to the Great Northern Peterborough North station, now called just plain Peterborough.
 
The railway line heads out of Peterborough to Kings Dyke were there are brick works. There is a signal box at Kings Dyke on the main Peterborough Whittlesea road. The first and only station is at Whittlesea which is still open. There is a signal box called Whittlesea here.
 
The railway line heads out across the fens to March. At Turves a small hamlet or village were there is a signal box called Three Horse Shoes.
 
The railway station at March is still open and there is a Network Rail Infrastructure Yard on the site of the old Marshalling Yard at Whitemoor.
 
March has it own pages and to see pages on this line in March
 
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