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March Railways
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'March Railways 2018'
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Winter Steam at March station 2018
THE YORK YULETIDE EXPRESS & 'The Christmas White Rose'
LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa coming out of the down goods loops and into platform 1 at March on the 6th December 2018
THE YORK YULETIDE EXPRESS was on Thursday 6 December 2018 with LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa between Norwich and York.
LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa out of March station on the 6th December 2018
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'The Christmas White Rose' 20th December 2018
LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa is again coming about out of the down goods loops and into platform 1 this time at March on the 20th December 2018
This train was 'The Christmas White Rose' that was on Thursday 20 December 2018 with LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa between Cambridge and York
LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa out of the down goods loops on the 20th December 2018 in the very low winter sun at 8:43am.
March
March railway station is in the town of March which is in the county of Cambridgeshire in eastern England. The station is 14 miles from Peterborough on the railway line to Ely.
March is in the flat fens, were farming was the main industry till the railway came. The GER railway line ran from
Ely to
March and then to Peterborough is still open.
There was also a line from St Ives and one to Spalding by the now closed GN&GEJR . There was also a line from Wisbech (the track of which is still in place from March to Wisbech but is not joined to the main network. (This lines may well be come a heritage line or even re-open)
At Whitemoor one of Europe biggest freight marshalling yards was built at March. When this had all but closed, a new
NetworkRail Distribution Centre was built on the southern part of the site of of The Old Whitemoor Yard. This was opened in 2004. Whitemoor Prison had been built on the northern part of what was once one of Europe biggest marshalling yards
