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STONEA - 1990 - In the coming campaign to rid the country of all manual level crossings, Network Rail are going to have problems here! A Class 101 DMU crosses the bridge on a Peterborough - Cambridge local service in 1990. The crossing gates stand right on the Drain bank and have thus far defied a number of attempts to automate them. They are still hand-operated from the little portakabin on the right. The station previously stood out of shot on the right. Note the lack of headroom under the bridge! The motorbike is mine.
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STONEA - 1990 - In the coming campaign to rid the country of all manual level crossings, Network Rail are going to have problems here! A Class 101 DMU crosses the bridge on a Peterborough - Cambridge local service in 1990. The crossing gates stand right on the Drain bank and have thus far defied a number of attempts to automate them. They are still hand-operated from the little portakabin on the right. The station previously stood out of shot on the right. Note the lack of headroom under the bridge! The motorbike is mine.

  • SOMERSHAM - 1950's - Opened by the Great Eastern Railway in March 1848 on its line from March to St Ives, the station closed completely in March 1967. From 1889, it became a junction when the branch to Ramsey East opened. Passenger traffic was always sparse, roughly one train every two hours, all stations, but in the 1950's over 80 freight trains a day were diagrammed, mainly carrying coal from Whitemoor to eastern London. It was an important diversionary route for the East Coast Main Line and avoided extremely busy Ely, convergence of no less than 6 routes. However, traffic rapidly declined with the enforcement of the Clean Air Act in the 1960's. The station building was demolished on closure and re-erected on Sir William Mc Alpine's private railway at Fawley, Oxfordshire. This view from the 1950's is looking west towards the town. The level crossing is at the top a steep ramp and adjacent to a very low roadbridge served by the single lane road on the left, an arrangement quite common in the flatness of the Fens.
  • ST IVES - 1950's - Opened in August 1847, St Ives was an important but minor railway junction. The line from March to Cambridge formed it's mainline, carrying a great deal of heavy freight, (now a (mis)guided busway from St Ives!). The line from Cambridge them meandered west eventually to Kettering via Huntingdon East. There was also a branchline to Ely. The station closed in October 1970 but the line remained open for sand traffic for some years after, only being lifted to make way for the busway. Here we see an Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 bound for Cambridge from Kettering. The platforms for the services to March are behind the engine.
  • ST IVES - 1960's - Opened in August 1847, St Ives was an important but minor railway junction. The line from March to Cambridge formed it's mainline, carrying a great deal of heavy freight, (now a (mis)guided busway from St Ives!). The line from Cambridge then meandered west eventually to Kettering via Huntingdon East. There was also a branchline to Ely. The station closed in October 1970 but the line remained open for sand traffic for some years after, only being lifted to make way for the busway. Here we see a Cravens Class 105DMU sitting on the stub of the line to Huntingdon East with a train for Cambridge a few months before the service ceased. The lines on the right go to March and that side of the station is completely disused.
  • STONEA - 1950's - Between March and Manea, it served just a cluster of farms, a few cottages and a pub. Opened in 1847, it closed in 1966 and is seen here in about 1960 with a Derby Lightweight DMU approaching from March. Note the gas lamp. Interestingly, Stonea boasts one of the few sets of manually operated level crossing gates still in action.
  • STONEA - 1970's - Looking west from the site of Stonea Station sometime between closure in 1966 and the early 1980's. The signalbox, lokking slightly off kilter, was demolished and replaced with a portakabin this side of the white hut for the gateman. The gates are still hand worked today. The siding has long since disappeared. The house on the left is about 25% of the total in Stonea!
  • STONEA - 1990 - In the coming campaign to rid the country of all manual level crossings, Network Rail are going to have problems here! A Class 101 DMU crosses the bridge on a Peterborough - Cambridge local service in 1990. The crossing gates stand right on the Drain bank and have thus far defied a number of attempts to automate them. They are still hand-operated from the little portakabin on the right. The station previously stood out of shot on the right. Note the lack of headroom under the bridge! The motorbike is mine.
  • SUTTON - 1950's - Opened in May 1878 by the Ely & St. Ives Railway, replacing the original station which ad been a terminus for the line from Ely and was retained as the goods station. Sutton was the only station on the line to have two platforms and a passing loop. The station was not well used and passenger services were withdrawn in February 1931, although it remained open for goods until July 1964. Seen here looking south-west.
  • SWAFFHAM PRIOR - 1930's - Located between Burwell and Bottisham stations on the Cambridge - Mildenhall branch line, Swaffham Prior opened in June 1884. Initially there was just a single platform and long goods loop but this was removed in 1935 and the signal box closed, although it extant in this picture. There was a small goods yard behind the station buildings. There were only 4 passenger trains each way per day, later increased to five. The station closed to passengers in June 1962 and completely in July 1964, when the entire branch closed. Seen here looking east just after the goods loop had been lifted in 1935.
  • SWAFFHAM PRIOR - 1950's - Located between Burwell and Bottisham stations on the Cambridge - Mildenhall branch line, Swaffham Prior opened in June 1884. Initially there was just a single platform and long goods loop but this was removed in 1935 and the signal box closed, although it extant in this picture. There was a small goods yard behind the station buildings. There were only 4 passenger trains each way per day, later increased to five. The station closed to passengers in June 1962 and completely in July 1964, when the entire branch closed. Seen here looking east as a train from Mildenhall arrives.
  • SWAFFHAM PRIOR - 1957 - Located between Burwell and Bottisham stations on the Cambridge - Mildenhall branch line, Swaffham Prior opened in June 1884. Initially there was just a single platform and long goods loop but this was removed in 1935 and the signal box closed, although it extant in this picture. There was a small goods yard behind the station buildings. There were only 4 passenger trains each way per day, later increased to five. The station closed to passengers in June 1962 and completely in July 1964, when the entire branch closed. Seen here looking west in February 1957.
  • SWAVESEY - 1950's - Opened in August 1847 by the Wisbech, St. Ives and Cambridge Junction Railway, Swavesey was the first station east of St. Ives towards Cambridge. This was an extremely busy line for goods traffic until the mid-1960's and then traffic deteriorated very rapidly until it closed in October 1970, although sand traffic to St. Ives continued until August 2003. in 2007/8, the station was completely obliterated when the guided busway was built along its track.
  • THREE HORSESHOES JUNCTION - 2022 - The remains of Three Horseshoes Junction at Turves. The station was named after the pub as I suspect that when the railway opened in 1847 the village of Turves did not really exist. The goods branch to Burnt House and Benwick branched off to the right just beyond the signalbox, which is now just a gatebox with CCTV cameras to monitor the 4 level crossings within a mile of each other. Seen here looking east of November 4th, 2022.
  • THREE HORSESHOES No.1 AHB - 2023 - There are 4 AHB's within about a mile of each other just east of the village of Turves, all but one crossed by the same road! This is the middle of nowhere and, as you can see, in the middle of nowhere, nothing is truly vertical. The rook is rather ominous. Seen here on February 4th, 2023.
  • TWENTY FOOT RIVER SIGNALBOX, March - 1970's - This signalbox was built in 1974 and sat at the northern neck of Whitemoor Yard, adjacent to the entry to the Up Hump Yard Reception Sidings, with Twenty Foot Goods Sidings just across the drain. The original signalbox was sinking into the soft fen soil. This box closed in 1982 when the GN/GE Joint Line closed and was demolished. Seen here when new.
  • UFFINGTON - 2022 - Only about 50 yards south of the level crossing are these abutments of an overbridge. This was on the GNR branch line from Stamford East to Wansford, which closed in 1929. It also boasted both Uffington and Barnack stations, both more conveniently situated to their respective villages. Seen here on October 17th, 2022.
  • UFFINGTON - 2022 - There was a station here until 1964 (1952 for passengers) called Uffington & Barnack (neither village being anywhere near the station!), on the other side of the level crossing I am standing on, of which the station house survives as a private residence. This is not just a gate box but a block post, Stamford box having been done away with. There was a small goods yard opposite the signal box. now used as a car park. In 1922, it boasted a service of 4 trains each way per day to Leicester and Peterborough East. Seen here on October 17th, 2022.
  • UFFINGTON - 2022 - This is a very odd level crossing, still manually worked, with both gates on the same side of the road. This may be because there is a 180 degree sharp left hand bend which the signalbox sits in the middle of and gates on the inside of the bend may have blocked visibility. Seen here on October 17th, 2022.
  • UFFORD BRIDGE - 1920's - This station was the second intermediate stop on the 1867 GNR branch from Stamford to Wansford, supposedly serving the villages of Ufford and Southorpe, both very small and not very proximate. The station closed in 1929 along with the rest of the line. The platform was under and to the north of the bridge and the goods siding to the south. A waiting room was built utilising the road bridge as its roof. This station when opened had the smallest station platform at 166 feet in the country. The train guard combined the duties of station master, porter, booking clerk and ticket collector. The station lay roughly equidistant between the villages of Barnack, Ufford and Southorpe and was convenient for none of them.
  • WANSFORD - 1910's - Opened in 1845 by the Northampton & Peterborough Railway, the station closed in 1957, being inconveniently situated for Wansford village, although the through routes to Rugby and Northampton lasted into the mid-60's and the section form Peterborough to Wansford and Nassington remained open for freight traffic into the 1970's. Thus the station survived and re-opened in 1977 as the HQ of the Nene Valley Railway. Seen here in the early 20th century looking west, the mouth of the tunnel just visible in the distance.
  • WANSFORD - Opened in 1845 by the Northampton & Peterborough Railway, the station closed in 1957, being inconveniently situated for Wansford village, although the through routes to Rugby and Northampton lasted into the mid-60's and the section form Peterborough to Wansford and Nassington remained open for freight traffic into the 1970's. Thus the station survived and re-opened in 1977 as the HQ of the Nene Valley Railway. This view is towards Peterborough.
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