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Interchange between Peterborough East and the GNR station was inconvenient, [6] so on 1 February 1858 the Midland Railway opened Peterborough Crescent station, [1] a short distance from the GNR station and close to the level crossing of the same name. Some GER trains were working through to the GNR Station by 1863.
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 ...
Peterborough East was a railway station in Peterborough, England. It was opened on 2 June 1845 and closed to passenger traffic on 6 June 1966. [ 1 ] Located on East Station Road just off Town Bridge, only the engine sheds and one platform remain.
Peterborough railway station is a principal stop on the East Coast Main Line, 45–50 minutes' journey time from central London, with high-speed intercity services from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley operated by the London North Eastern Railway at around a 20-minute frequency.
The southern portion of the line, below Rice Lake, had a second life from 1867 as part of the Cobourg, Peterborough & Marmora Railway & Mining Company. This was a network using the original C&P, a short run known as the Blairton Extension , and the Trent River between the two which was used to ship iron ore from the mines at Marmora to market.
The GNR opened its own station, which much later became known as Peterborough North, and is the present-day Peterborough station. The GNR main line to Retford was opened on 15 July 1852 for goods trains, and 1 August 1852 for passengers. [18] This meant that there were two major railway stations in Peterborough, some distance apart.
The Birmingham–Peterborough line is a cross-country railway line in the England, linking Birmingham, Leicester and Peterborough, via Nuneaton, Oakham and Stamford [1]. Since the Beeching Axe railway closures in the 1960s, it is the only direct railway link between the West Midlands and the East of England.
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.