Location : Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire South Holland, Fenland City of Peterborough Weston, The Moultons, Holbeach, Parson Drove, Wisbech St. Mary, March, Thorney, Cowbit, Fleet, Gedney Hill, Sutton St. Edmund, Elm, Whaplode, Crowland Non Civil Parish
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Summary : Course of dismantled railway, opened in 1879 and closed in the late 1970s. The railway opened in 1867, more as the product of the competition between the Great Northern and Great Eastern Railway Companies to participate in the northern coal traffic, than for local needs. In 1879, realising the waste of time and resources spent in competition, the companies agreed to run the line jointly. The intermediate stations closed in the 1950s and 60s, but freight traffic continued into the late 1970s, after which the line was dismantled. |