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WARBOYS - In this aerial view of the station taken looking towards Somersham in June 1953, there is still plenty of activity. A Class J17 0-6-0 is shunting the daily branch freight train. The adjacent brickworks on the right is still in operation and many of the wagons are destined for there. Goods services operated until 1964. The station (top of picture) lost its passenger services in 1930 but is still in remarkably good condition.
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WARBOYS - In this aerial view of the station taken looking towards Somersham in June 1953, there is still plenty of activity. A Class J17 0-6-0 is shunting the daily branch freight train. The adjacent brickworks on the right is still in operation and many of the wagons are destined for there. Goods services operated until 1964. The station (top of picture) lost its passenger services in 1930 but is still in remarkably good condition.

  • 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.
  • WARBOYS - 1910's - Opened in September 1889 by the Ramsey & Somersham Railway, Warboys was the only intermediate station between those two places. It eventually boasted quite an extensive goods yard with a covered shed and sidings into the adjacent brickworks. A GER Adams Class 61 0-4-4T is seen shunting in about 1910. These locos had been displaced from London suburban services and were eking out there days in places such as this. All were scrapped by 1913.
  • WARBOYS - In this aerial view of the station taken looking towards Somersham in June 1953, there is still plenty of activity. A Class J17 0-6-0 is shunting the daily branch freight train. The adjacent brickworks on the right is still in operation and many of the wagons are destined for there. Goods services operated until 1964. The station (top of picture) lost its passenger services in 1930 but is still in remarkably good condition.
  • WATERBEACH - 1970's - Opened in July 1845 on the line from Cambridge to Norwich through Ely. The station offered very poor services to the public, only about 9 or 10 local services a day stopping in 1966. After the line to Kings Lynn was electrified in 1992, most trains to/from Kings Lynn now stopped as the village was expanding in size rapidly. In 2020, the platforms, staggered on each side of this level crossing, were lengthened to enable them to hold 12-car trains. Many people, faced with the gruelling drive to Cambridge Station, use Waterbeach instead and passenger journeys now total about 400,000 per year. Seen here looking south in about the mid '70's.
  • WELNEY ROAD AHB, Manea - 2022 - With typical railway disregard for local geography, this AHB actually stands on Wisbech Road! It is about 1 mile east of Manea Station and 79 miles and 33 chains from Liverpool Street (according to the plaque on the switch room). This a favourite spot for photographers, especially for Up road (eastbound) trains, the Down road shot being much more restricted. It's certainly one of my favourite spots, especially in winter when I am usually the only person daft enough to be there. Seen here on November 30th, 2022.
  • WERRINGTON JUNCTION - 2021 - Looking north on July 26th, 2021. The ECML Up Slow and Fast lines are on the right, as ever, the Up Leicester is behind the fence on the right, then come the two new lines for the dive-under and then the Down Slow/Leicester. Notice the large gap - this has concrete bases for catenary masts along it - there's one just about level with the second from the right overhead stringer wire - hmm! By the way, the place is impossible! The parapets are seven feet high and all of the other views are crap, at least on the Down side.
  • WERRINGTON JUNCTION - 2021 - Looking south on July 26th, 2021. The ECML Up Slow and Fast lines are on the left, as ever, the Up Leicester is behind the fence on the far left, then come the two new lines from the dive-under and then the Down Slow/Leicester. Notice the large gap - this has concrete bases for catenary masts along it - hmm! By the way, the place is impossible! The parapets are seven feet high and all of the other views are crap, at least on the Down side.
  • WHITEMOOR JUNCTION - 1940's - A view looking north from Norwood Bridge in the 1940's, at a guess. Whitemoor Junction signalbox is just visible on the right with the Wisbech Branch going straight on past it. The next set of points lead to the Up Reception Sidings whilst the next double set are the GN/GE Joint line to Spalding. The last set lead into the loco depot, the cenotaph coaling tower visible above the breakdown train vehicles. I don't think a single piece of this exists anymore
  • WHITEMOOR MARSHALLING YARDS - 1950's - March has been an important railway centre ever since the railway arrived here in 1847. The first marshalling yards were built here with the opening of the GN/GE Joint Line from Lincoln. This meant coal from Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire could be sent to London avoiding the busy southern end of the GN mainline. Trains from the collieries would be sorted here into those for a like destination before onward transit. In this 1950's picture, the loco depot, all steam, is on the left, the down yards and hump are in the centre and the up yards on the right. The yards reached their zenith in the 1930's and were claimed to be the biggest in Europe, a fact disputed by the Germans, particularly the Luftwaffe, who tried to bomb them out of existence! Traffic was in decline by the mid-'60's and the yards were cut back until by the 1980's only the up hump yard and up reception sidings, on the extreme right, remained. With the collapse of Speedlink services in the early '90's, the yards had no use and were closed down as was the loco depot. Then, in 2004, a totally new yard was built by Network Rail on the same site and flourishes today.
  • WHITTLESEA - 1900 - Given what a ramshackle eyesore the station is today, it was evidently once a fairly substantial establishment. The view in about 1900, is from the down platform looking east, the signalbox, extant, in the background. There seem to be lot of staff for such a small station.
  • WHITTLESEA - 1920's - The main station buildings at Whittlesea were quite substantial and there were extensive goods yards, mainly to cater for the local brickworks. All of the buildings were demolished in the 1970's and what remains is a shadow of it's former self. Seen here in about 1920.
  • WHITTLESEA - 1959 - The main station buildings at Whittlesea were quite substantial and there were extensive goods yards, mainly to cater for the local brickworks. All of the buildings were demolished in the 1970's and what remains is a shadow of it's former self. Seen here in April 1959 looking east.
  • WHITTLESEA - 2001 - The signalbox at Whittlesea always seems to be nicely kept. It has just had a fresh coat of paint on May 12th, 2001 and is looking very trim. At one time, Whittlesea was a major freight centre but I imagine the box is mostly full of white levers now.
  • WHITTLESEA - 2005 - Looking east from Platform 2 in November 2005. Abellio has plans in 2017 to extend both platforms, Platform 2 towards 1 and then build a footbridge between them. This is mainly because the new trains being built will be much too long for these short platforms.
  • WHITTLESEA - 2016 - Looking east from Platform 2 at Whittlesea, 29/02/16. On both sides of the line here there were once extensive sidings as the brick traffic was marshalled here and as can be seen there are still spurs on both sides, protected by manual ground signals, but not used in many years.
  • WHITTLESEA - 2016 - The station still retains, quite remarkably, an outfit of 6 semaphore signals and hand-operated crossing gates. Here we see 2 Down and 1 Up signals, 29/02/16.
  • WHITTLESEA - 2016 - Things change but slowly in the Fens and Whittlesea Station Crossing has hardly changed since the previous picture 15 years ago - new crossing hut, trees cut down, that's about it! - 29/02/16.
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