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The station has a concourse and ticket office area which was internally redesigned and reopened in mid-2012. The concourse features both a newsagents and a cafe. For general assistance there is a customer information point located on platform 1 by the concourse, as well as customer service offices on platform 5 and near the toilets on platform 2.
Peterborough Nene Valley is a station on the Nene Valley Railway and is the current eastern terminus of the line. [1] Situated adjacent to Railworld, the station can be found west of the East Coast Main Line, close to the Junction of London Road and Oundle Road. The station was built in 1986 as part of the Nene Valley Railway's Peterborough ...
[3] [4] The roundhouse and turntable are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. [5] The station along with the town, was renamed Peterborough in 1917. As part of the standardisation project, the line between Port Augusta and Broken Hill was converted to standard gauge in 1970, thus Peterborough became a break of gauge station.
Southbound view of the station from platform 2 in January 2015, before the construction of platform 5. The station has five platform tracks, which are at ground level. The westernmost track (platform 5) is a terminal track for trains to and from London via the Hertford Loop Line, and is served by a side platform.
The station was closed to regular passenger trains in 1942 but was used by railway staff until the Wansford to Peterborough section closed in 1966 and subsequently the station was demolished. A new station Ferry Meadows was constructed on the same site and was opened with the line in 1977 by the Nene Valley Railway .
Thorney, City of Peterborough England: Platforms: 2: Other information; Status: Disused: History; Original company: Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Railway: Pre-grouping: Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway: Post-grouping: Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway: Key dates; 1 August 1866 [1] Opened: 2 December 1957 [2] Closed for ...
This has allowed platforms 5 and 6 to be dedicated to Gatwick Express services, thereby eliminating previous conflicts with slower services when they crossed to platforms 1 and 2. [ 16 ] [ 18 ] The project was finished on schedule and budget, despite extreme weather conditions during the winter of 2013/2014.
There were originally five platforms at Wellingborough station - Platforms 1 & 2 still exist as they were, platform 3 was the bay platform for Northampton trains, which ceased on 4 May 1964. The bay is still there, but fenced off from platform 2. In 1964, platform 4 (the then down slow platform) was re-numbered platform 3.