First GBRf Class 66711 and 66720 light engines head into the Whitemoor yard from Peterborough.
The sharpness of the curve can be made out from this shot. GBRf main loco depot is at Peterborough and all their locomotives had to go to Peterborough for attention or refuelling at this time.
On the 9th of December 2006 class 158783 comes into March station on a Norwich train.
March West Juction with a Central Trains class 158857 heading for Peterborough in 2006
The curved line on left is heading into Whitemoor 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
Page updated 8/5/2019
