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March Railways
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'March Railways
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March station 2020
on 7th August 2020
Freightlinner class 66555 at the station road crossing on the 7th August 2020
GBRf class 66740 with a intermodal train in March South Yard on the 7th August 2020
DB 'Maritime Intermodal One' 66 005 next to the March South Junc signal box on the 7th August 2020
Greater Anglia Ipswich to Peterborogh train in March South Yard on the 7th August 2020
The coronavirus Pandemic Lock Downs and the fall in passenger numbers were hitting all railways hard with passengers being told not to travel unless you had to.
These up sidings in South yard which have seen little use for many years were now full of wagons photo also on the 7th August 2020.
There was no steam over the 2020 this year at March because of all lock downs.
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
Page uploaded 6/1/2020
