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Peterborough Railways
2014- 2020
Platform 6 in 2017
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Platform 6 in 2017
BR Class 4MT 2-6-0 no 76084 and its surport coach in platform 6 with a steam movment from York to the North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham on the 23rd of March 2017
Freightliner class 70010 in platform 6 at Peterborough station on the 29th of April 2017.
Cross Country class 170637 in platform 6 at Peterborough in the low winter sun on the 23rd of November 2017
Class 170's and 158's use this platform the most on Cambridge and Stansted Airport trains and Norwich and Ipswich trains.
Greater Anglia class 170 271 in platform 6 at Peterborough waiting to return to Ipswich in the last of the dull winter afternoon light on the 6th of December 2017.
GBRf Class 66709 in platform 6 at Peterborough station on the 6th of December 2017.
Platform 6
Platform 6 is an all new platform that had only opened in 2014. It has been;built along side platform 5 and is part of an island platform with platform 7. Both these platforms have no overhead wires and will be used for services like the Liverpool to Norwich and the Birmingham to Stanstead trains that run mostly on non-wired lines.
One of the main plus points is that this platform and all the others at Peterborough station now have lifts. There is a waiting room and WCs
The Greater Anglia service from Peterborough to Ipswich uses this platform.Freight from the March line also also uses this platform.
