Peterborough Branch (London and Birmingham Railway)






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.







In the circumstances, the stop board seems to be superfluous. Looking South over the canal bridge by the former triangular junction on the link from ...
Ken Strachan 18/07/2014
The first Bridge Street loco shed was built in 1845, but blew down in 1852. The replacement was started in 1855 and extended in 1870. The building ...
Ken Strachan 21/02/2014
Shunting at Bridge Street level crossing, Northampton, in 1991. The 1845 London & Birmingham station at Northampton Bridge Street closed in 1964. ...
Ian Dinmore //1991
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Looking North towards the station site at Irthlingborough see image 44129, which was just beyond the long 1930's concrete road bridge in the right ...
Ken Strachan 26/07/2013
There isn't much left of Irthlingborough station on the Northampton to Peterborough line - just a rather boring brick loading bank behind the trees to ...
Ken Strachan 26/07/2013
Most ironstone mines in the Midlands were opencast, but the line to the right from this junction - recently cleared to allow electric cable ...
Ken Strachan 26/07/2013
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The railway often merges into the landscape rather better than roads. This bridge over the River Nene between Ringstead and Great Addington is a case ...
Ken Strachan 26/07/2013
Look carefully. This is neither a tall tunnel entrance, nor an old sports car missing its wheels and grille; but simply a hole in the end of a bridge ...
Ken Strachan 01/04/2012
Ladies who lunch - five females ranging in age from teenage to ahem, enjoy lunch on a bridge girder on the LNWR line from Peterborough to Northampton ...
Ken Strachan 26/07/2013
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The former wayside station at Barnwell is now adjacent to the Oundle bypass, which is built on the trackbed. I have driven past the station maybe six ...
Ken Strachan 21/07/2013
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Looking past a rather less overgrown gatepost near Oundle station see image 44393, the trackbed to Peterborough is conveniently marked across the ...
Ken Strachan 21/07/2013
I surmise that this level crossing gate hinge pin, just North of Oundle station, hasn't been used for a while. Just a wild guess, really. ...
Ken Strachan 12/07/2013
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43046 with 43049 with UK Railtours' excursion from London St. Pancras at Yarwell Junction station on the Nene Valley Railway, on 28th March 2015. ...
David Bosher 28/03/2015
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43046 with 43049 with UK Railtours' excursion from London St. Pancras calling at Wansford station on its way back from Yarwell Junction on the Nene ...
David Bosher 28/03/2015
43049, with UK Railtours' excursion from St. Pancras, at Wansford, Nene Valley Railway, on 28th March 2015. The train travelled via Leicester, Melton ...
David Bosher 28/03/2015
De Glehn compound 4-6-0 3.628 at Wansford, Nene Valley Railway, in 1988. In the background, Swedish Railways S1 2-6-4T is being turned. Both have ...
Bill Roberton //1988
LNER B1 no 1306 photographed at Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway in June 2005.
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Peter Todd /06/2005
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Battle of Britain 4-6-2 34081 92 Squadron seen at Peterborough NVR Station on the 13th May 2018.
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Peter Todd 13/05/2018
Andrew Barclay J94 (ex-Wemyss Private Railway No 15) operating on the Nene Valley Railway on 30 March 2008. See image 19178 ...
Peter Todd 30/03/2008
A long way from Clapham Junction...a southern 4-COR EMU set stands on the Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough in 1981. ...
Ian Dinmore //1981
The Nene Valley Railway Diesel Gala weekend on 6 October included preserved 47401, now named North Eastern. This locomotive was the first of ...
Bruce McCartney 06/10/2013
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