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Whittlesea
3rd September 2022
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Whittlesea Station
on 3rd Steptember 2022
Duchess of Sutherland no.6223 at Wittlesea station on Saturday 3rd of September in 2022.
This was 'The Chesterman' from Norwich to Chester and return with steam coming off at Peterborough on the return.
WCRC class 47813 was at the rear of this steam train Whittlesea on 3rd of Sptember 2022
Whittlsea signal box with class 158813 at Whittlsea station Whittlesea on 3rd of Sptember 2022
Whittlesea station
Whittlesea station in 2021. The station has two platforms set about over 100ft apart. New wooden shelters and plant boxes have been added this year. Not all trains stop at this station.
There is a signal box which has signals and wooden level crossing gates that are worked by a gate person from a cabin near the station by hand.
The railway goes around Whittlesea with the station on the edge of the town and a fair walk from the centre of the town.
The Alial Road Road occupation crossing is just west of station with drivers opening the gates.There is red and green lights and a phone.
The Peterborough to March Railway line
The railway line between
Peterborough and
March runs from Peterborough railway station and then across the River Nene and 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 line heads out of Peterborough to Kings Dyke were there are 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.
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