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English: Wansford railway station carpark Looking northeast at the carpark at Wansford station on The Nene Valley Railway (NVR).

This preserved tourist railway runs from the outskirts of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, to Yarwell Junction, a distance of seven and a half miles. There are terminal stations at Yarwell Junction and Peterborough Nene Valley with intermediate stations at Orton Mere, Ferry Meadows and Wansford.

The NVR's locomotive depot and principal station is at Wansford which is near the western end of the line. Locomnotives are stored and serviced here and two of them are visible in this photo.

The original Nene Valley line ran from Blisworth (a once-important junction on the London-Birmingham main line) following the valley of the River Nene through Northampton, Thrapston, and Oundle to Peterborough. The route opened in 1845 and passenger services were withdrawn in 1966. British Railways finally closed the line to all traffic in 1972.

In 1974, Peterborough Development Corporation bought the section between Longville and Yarwell and leased it to the Peterborough Railway Society, a group of volunteer enthusiasts, to operate as a tourist railway. Between 1974 and May 1977 the railways was restored to passenger-carrying condition. The official Railway Inspector passed the restored line as fit for passenger train in May 1977 and the NVR officially opened on the 1 June that year.
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Camera location52° 34′ 03″ N, 0° 23′ 20″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location52° 34′ 05″ N, 0° 23′ 20″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current18:38, 3 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 18:38, 3 March 2011640 × 421 (104 KB)GeographBot (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Wansford railway station carpark Looking northeast at the carpark at Wansford station on The Nene Valley Railway (NVR). This preserved tourist railway runs from the outskirts of Peterborough, Cam

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