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March Railways
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'March Railways 2019'
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'March South Junction crossing'
Freightliner class 66518 at March South Junction level crossing 23rd April 2019 heading for Ely.
GBRf class 66761 at level crossing heading for the Whitemoor yard on the 23rd April in 2019 with train of NetworkRail ballast hoppers.
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March West Junction 23rd April 2019
GBRf class 66742 at March West Junction 23rd of April 2019
GBRf class 66716 at March West Junction on the 23rd of April 2019
GBRf class 66761 at March West Junction coming out of Whitmoor light engine heading for Peterborough on the 23rd of April 2019
This is the same class 66 that came into March with train of Network Rail ballast hoppers at March South crossing on this page.
GBRf class 66762 on 14th May 2019 on the level crossing next to 'March East Jn' signal box. This box is still in use in 2020
Black 5 44871
The York Yuletide Express
Black 5 44871 with The Railway Touring Company's The York Yuletide Express from Norwich to York on Thursday 28th November 2019
Black 5 44871 coming into March station to pck up passengers on the 18th of November 2019 at 8:15am
There was now just a little light, it had been dark when it got to March and watered in the south yard
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
