Post by Spooky on Feb 27, 2008 13:45:38 GMT
I will be leading the event here:
The Nene Valley Railway is a standard gauge railway, which runs for 7.5miles between Yarwell Junction and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Its headquarters are based at Wansford, which is where our investigation is to take place. The first railway to arrive in Peterborough came from Blisworth, via Northampton, Thrapston, Oundle and Wansford with the very first passenger train along the Nene Valley departing Peterborough at 7 o'clock on Monday 2 June 1845. The Nene Valley railway of today is the eastern section of this line.
In 1948 the railways were nationalised but it was not until 1964 after a steady decline that passenger services ceased between Peterborough and Northampton. In 1972 British Rail closed the line completely putting the one-hundred and twenty-seven year's story to an end. In 1974 the Peterborough Development Corporation (PDC) bought the Nene Valley line between Longville and Yarwell Junctions and leased it to the Peterborough Railway Society to operate the railway - a major milestone in the society's history.
The PDC who had paid out a considerable sum of money were anxious that passenger services should commence as soon as possible and certainly before the opening of the Nene Park in 1978. Between 1974 and May 1977 the line was upgraded to passenger standards. On 24 May the Railway Inspector passed the railway as fit for passenger carrying operations. The line between Wansford and Orton Mere was officially opened on 1 June 1977 and continues to run today.
The Nene Valley Railway is a standard gauge railway, which runs for 7.5miles between Yarwell Junction and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Its headquarters are based at Wansford, which is where our investigation is to take place. The first railway to arrive in Peterborough came from Blisworth, via Northampton, Thrapston, Oundle and Wansford with the very first passenger train along the Nene Valley departing Peterborough at 7 o'clock on Monday 2 June 1845. The Nene Valley railway of today is the eastern section of this line.
In 1948 the railways were nationalised but it was not until 1964 after a steady decline that passenger services ceased between Peterborough and Northampton. In 1972 British Rail closed the line completely putting the one-hundred and twenty-seven year's story to an end. In 1974 the Peterborough Development Corporation (PDC) bought the Nene Valley line between Longville and Yarwell Junctions and leased it to the Peterborough Railway Society to operate the railway - a major milestone in the society's history.
The PDC who had paid out a considerable sum of money were anxious that passenger services should commence as soon as possible and certainly before the opening of the Nene Park in 1978. Between 1974 and May 1977 the line was upgraded to passenger standards. On 24 May the Railway Inspector passed the railway as fit for passenger carrying operations. The line between Wansford and Orton Mere was officially opened on 1 June 1977 and continues to run today.