Fen Line

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Stations

King's Lynn

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Level crossings

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)