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£70 million funding approved for redevelopment of Peterborough station
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/70-million-funding-approved-redvelopment-24343787?utm_source=cambridgeshire_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=peterborough_live_newsletter2&utm_medium=email
"A rail freight company is to build a £3 million operations and training hub in Peterborough. From an article in today's Peterborough Telegraph 6th February 2020:
GB Railfreight has secured the green light to construct a three storey centre at its site in Maskew Avenue.
The building will house...
An ambitious plan. What do people make of it?
Peterborough Telegraph:
"Work to kick-start a long awaited £500 million transformation of Peterborough city centre is timetabled to start in 18 months:"...
More trains will run between Peterborough and London after a dive under at Werrington Junction was approved. The dive under will take freight trains off the East Coast Main Line and connect them with the Great Northern Great Eastern Line as part of a multi-million pound scheme. Once completed...
As a special thank you for providing valuable assistance with a mechanical problem last year, the locomotive will return to the Nene Valley Railway.
Watch this space for news...
Engineering work is taking place in the Grantham area, closing all lines through the station.
Saw a variety of mainline trains using the line from Werrington Junction to Doncaster and in reverse this afternoon:
https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/travel-information/timetable-changes/
Short notice:
Spalding 1334, Peterborough 1357-1405, Whittlesey 1416, March 1426-1536
On its way to Norwich via Ely...
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/transport/revealed-what-time-will-the-flying-scotsman-pass-through-spalding-peterborough-whittlesey-and-march-today-1-8202309
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