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Stations
[edit]King's Lynn
[edit]Main category: King's Lynn railway station
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Station entrance (2017)
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Station building (1992)
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Country Line cafe (2008)
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BR signage remnant (2018)
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Platforms (1992)
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Platforms 1 & 2 (2010)
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Track into Platform 2 (2009)
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Stabling point (1980, now demolished)
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Former goods yard with Class 37 (1981)
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Locomotive outside the locomotive depot (1956)
Watlington
[edit]Main category: Watlington railway station
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Totem sign (2012)
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Car park (2009)
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Disused lineside shelter (2009)
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Looking south from Platform 1 (2009)
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Buildings on the disused platform
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Level crossing (2010)
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Former goods office (2021)
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Signal box (2011)
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View from train of platform 2 (1992)
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Distant view from St Peters Road level crossing
Stow Bardolph (closed to passengers 1963)
[edit]Main category: Stow Bardolph level crossing
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Station building & gates (1991)
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Station building & new gates (1992)
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View from level crossing (2021)
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Signal box (1991, now demolished)
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Semaphore signal (probably 1990s, signal now demolished)
Downham Market
[edit]Main category: Downham Market railway station
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Totem sign (2011) - this has now been replaced with a newly-made NSE sign after the NSE-tribute refurbishment.
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Main station building (2021)
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Letterbox and phone box at the station building (2009)
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View from Platform 1 (2021)
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View from Platform 2 at night (2021)
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Siding running alongside Platform 2
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Buffer stops on the siding (2021)
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Ballast train in the siding (pre-1981)
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Reproduction NSE signage (2021)
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Waiting room on Platform 2 (2009)
Denver (closed 1930)
[edit]Main category: Denver railway station
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Level crossing, building & platforms
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Level crossing, building & platforms (1991)
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Former platform & building
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GER crest on station building
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View of both platforms
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Line-side view of buildings
Littleport
[edit]Main category: Littleport railway station
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Totem sign & road underpass (2009)
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Windmill & station (1902)
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View of platforms (2009)
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Waiting room (2009)
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Foot crossing (2009, removed after the extension of platform 2)
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Platforms (2009)
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Signal box (2015)
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Level crossing gates, closed position (2009)
Ely
[edit]Main category: Ely railway station
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Station building (2009)
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View onto platform 1 (2012-ish)
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Station name board (2012)
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View from southbound platform (2013)
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View north (unknown, but probably late 80s at the latest)
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South end (1991)
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Disused buildings for the sidings (2009)
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Foot tunnel under the tracks
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Bridge and level crossing
Waterbeach
[edit]Main category: Waterbeach railway station
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View onto southbound platform (2014)
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View onto northbound platform (2012)
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Former goods shed (2012)
Cambridge North
[edit]Main category: Cambridge North railway station
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Main station building (2017)
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Cladding detail on the main station building (2021)
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Ticket barriers (2017)
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On the footbridge (2021)
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Cladding detail on footbridge (2017)
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Platforms at night (2017)
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Station site before construction (2012)
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Under construction (2016)
Cambridge
[edit]Main category: Cambridge railway station
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Station building (2012)
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View from platform 1
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North end of platform 2
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View from platforms 7 & 8 (2011)
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Platforms 5 & 6 (2008)
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Tracks, with Carter Bridge (2011)
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Track maintenance (2018)
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Platforms 7 & 8 under construction (2011)
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Former ticket office (2008, now massively expanded)
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View on station from Hills Road bridge
Trains
[edit]Main category: Trains on the Fen Line
Electric multiple units
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Class 387 (2017, current stock)
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Class 720 at Cambridge North
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Class 379 at Ely
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Class 365, formerly the primary class on the line (2008)
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317 at Watlington (2010)
Loco-hauled passenger trains
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Class 37 at Ely (1971)
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Class 37 hauling an electric train (!) between Littleport and Ely (1990)
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Class 47, probably between Ely and Littleport (1989)
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Class 47 at Ely (undated, late 80s or early 90s)
Freight & works trains
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Class 56 running light engine near Downham Market (1992)
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Class 60 with a ballast train at Watlington (2021)
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Ballast tamper at Downham Market (2021)
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Class 66 at Watlington with a sand train from Middleton Towers (2012)
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Class 66 with a sand train near Wiggenhall St Germans (2011)
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Pair of Class 20s at Stow
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Class 03 shunter at Cambridge
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Class 08 shunter at King's Lynn
Steam-hauled trains
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Britannia Class 7 Pacific No. 70030 'William Wordsworth' at Ely (1958)
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LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 4427 at King's Lynn (1956)
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Gresley 'Sandringham' 4-6-0 at Cambridge (1951)
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Sir Nigel Gresley at Watlington (2010)
Infrastructure
[edit]Level crossings
[edit]Main category: Level crossings on the Fen Line
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Mill Road, Wiggenhall St Germans
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Runcton Holme (2021)
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Runcton Holme (2011)
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User-operated crossing north of Downham Market station
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Downham Market (2009)
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Littleport (2015)
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Adnam's crossing (2007)
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Queen Adelaide (2009)
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Ely (2009, now closed in favour of a road bypass)
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Bannolds, north of Waterbeach (2007)
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Waterbeach
Signal boxes
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King's Lynn Junction (1981)
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Magdalen Road (2012)
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Stow (date unknown, probably 1980s, now demolished)
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Littleport (2009)
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Ely North (date unknown, now demolished)
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Cambridge power signal box (2011)
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Cambridge North (1979, now demolished, not to be confused with the current station of the same name located some way to the north)
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Cambridge South signal box (date unknown, now demolished)
Bridges
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River Nar (2008)
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Ouse Bridge
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Polver Drain (2011)
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Bridge near Ten Mile Bank
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Ely
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Near Little Thetford, between Ely and Waterbeach
Miscellaneous
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Disused plate layer's hut in St Germans (2011)
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SPAD indicator guarding the single line between Watlington and King's Lynn (2010)
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Plate layer's hut between Littleport and Downham Market (2008)
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Overhead wires near Queen Adelaide (north of Ely)
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Pointwork and Cambridge TMD
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Carriage sidings at Cambridge (2018)
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Carriage washing plant at Cambridge (2010)