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Peterborough to March
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Whittlesea
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Freight at Whittlesea 5th July 2015
GBRf class 66759 on a train heading to Peterborough on the 5th of July 2015
This locomotive was to be named 'Chippy' on the 16th of September in remembrance of Clive Chippington an Assistant Train Manager with GB Railfreight who had passed away in 2015
GBRf class 66714 Cromer Lifeboat with a train of hopper wagons heading to Peterborough on the 5th of July 2015
Freightliner class 66556 on the 5th of July 2015 with a train heading for March.
Whittlesea 22nd June 2015
On the 22nd of June 2015 LMS 4-6-2 Duchess of Surtherland in British Railways greenwas returning with its surport coach at the Ramsey road crossing at Whitlesea. The locomotive had been taking part in the Mid-Norfolk Railway's Steam Gala.
Class 56401 and class 47506 at The Ramsey Road crossing with a movement from the Mid-Norfolk Railway to the Nene Valley Railway on 22nd June 2015 to pick up 31271
DB class 66198 on 22nd June 2015
West Coast class 47(?) on a train of ECS on the 3rd of July 2015 at Whittlesea.
West Coast class 47804 on the rear of the train above of ECS on the 3rd of July in 2015
GBRf class 66751 2nd April 2015 with a train heading for March.
DB class 66121 2nd April 2015 with a train heading for Peterborough.
Whittlesea railway station is today (2016) Managed by Abellio Greater Anglia. The station has two open platforms . Not all trains stop at this station.
The railway goes around Whittlesea with the station on the edge and is a fair walk from the centre of the town.
The Peterborough to March Railway line
The railway line between
Peterborough and
March runs from Peterborough railway station and across the River Nene and then under the ECML, past the
site of Peterborough East station. Peterborough East was the main Great Eastern Railway Peterborough station for this line. This station was closed and all services transferred to the Great Northern Peterborough North station, now called just plain Peterborough.
The railway line then heads out of Peterborough to Kings Dyke were there are still brick works. There is a
signal box at Kings Dyke on the main Peterborough Whittlesea road. The first and only station is at Whittlesea which is still open. There is a
signal box called Whittlesea here.
The railway station at
March is still open and there is a Network Rail Infrastructure Yard on the site of the old Marshalling Yard at Whitemoor.
March has it own pages and to see pages on this line in
March
Page updated 7/5/2020
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