Wansford Road station to be moved to NVR

[DaleCooper]

The long disused Wansford Road station building is to be dismantled and rebuilt at the Nene Valley Railway/Railworld site at Peterborough

Former station to be moved 'brick by brick' to railway museum

Wansford Road station is saved from demolition and will become part of the Nene Valley Railway.

www.bbc.co.uk

A Victorian railway station has been saved from demolition and will be moved "brick by brick" to a railway museum.
Wansford Road station in Sutton, Cambridgeshire, will become part of the Nene Valley Railway.
The locomotive museum runs a 7.5 mile (12 km) railway between Peterborough and Yarwell, in Northamptonshire.
The station lies in the path of the proposed route of the A47 dualling project, with work set to start in the spring of next year.
Nene Valley Railway and Railworld Wildlife Haven put a joint application to National Highways to dismantle and move the station to the Nene Valley site.
Historic England and Peterborough City Council were involved in judging the applications.
More than £200,000 of funding from National Highways will be used to support the work.
The station, which is located between the villages of Wansford and Sutton, was built in 1867 and closed to passengers in 1929.
Chris Griffin, for the National Highways programme said: "Breathing life into the old Wansford Road station building, which has remained unused for a number of years now, was something we wanted to do as it currently sits in the path of the new A47 upgrade."

 

[Cowley]

The long disused Wansford Road station building is to be dismantled and rebuilt at the Nene Valley Railway/Railworld site at Peterborough

Former station to be moved 'brick by brick' to railway museum

Wansford Road station is saved from demolition and will become part of the Nene Valley Railway.

www.bbc.co.uk

It’s not really an area I know very well but that’s a very nice looking building.

 

[bramling]

It’s not really an area I know very well but that’s a very nice looking building.

This is probably one of this situations where this is a genuine improvement, as the building is currently hemmed in by the very busy A47 at one end and a rat-run of a lane alongside.

Though it will lose an element of authenticity (especially being a GNR building going onto an LNWR line!), this is a million times better than demolition, which is probably what would have happened otherwise.

 

[pdeaves]

That will be mildly amusing, having Wansford and Wansford Road on the same line.

 

[Calthrop]

That will be mildly amusing, having Wansford and Wansford Road on the same line.

That did, effectively, happen long ago in real life -- in a slightly different sense. The line on which Wansford Road station lay -- the Stamford to Wansford branch (GNR -- or nominally independent, worked by GNR; then LNER) -- abandoned 1929 -- ran south-eastward from Stamford, via stations at Barnack, Ufford Bridge, and Wansford Road; to join the LNWR, later LMS, route westward from Peterborough: trains ran the short distance thereon, to terminate at Wansford station (LNWR then LMS). The Wiki article "Stamford and Essendine Railway" is worth a look at, re rail-history ups and downs in this little corner of the country (if I try to do links from these Forums, it never succeeds).

I've always been amused by the fact that Wansford Road station was actually closer to Wansford village (a mile to the east thereof); than was the other company's, "main-line" in comparison, Wansford station (a mile and a half south-east of the village).

 

[High Dyke]

That did, effectively, happen long ago in real life -- in a slightly different sense. The line on which Wansford Road station lay -- the Stamford to Wansford branch (GNR -- or nominally independent, worked by GNR; then LNER) -- abandoned 1929 -- ran south-eastward from Stamford, via stations at Barnack, Ufford Bridge, and Wansford Road; to join the LNWR, later LMS, route westward from Peterborough: trains ran the short distance thereon, to terminate at Wansford station (LNWR then LMS). The Wiki article "Stamford and Essendine Railway" is worth a look at, re rail-history ups and downs in this little corner of the country (if I try to do links from these Forums, it never succeeds).

I've always been amused by the fact that Wansford Road station was actually closer to Wansford village (a mile to the east thereof); than was the other company's, "main-line" in comparison, Wansford station (a mile and a half south-east of the village).

Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_and_Essendine_Railway#Sibson_extension

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you !