Day: 17 August 2020

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Peterborough Main Line to Orton Mere

Over the years one of the questions I am asked on a regular basis is why we don’t have a service to Peterborough main line station.

My answer to it is, we used to….

Before our city centre station opened there was for a time a Saturday service from the main line station to Orton Mere via the Fletton loop.

Here is a DMU at Orton Mere on that service.

I wonder if many people have a ticket from making that trip? Well if you don’t then here is one from Saturday 8th June 1985.


Who knows if such a service will run again? Personally I doubt it but then again you never know.

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Short Journeys.

People seem puzzled that visitors sometimes only go one station on the railway rather than further or perhaps the whole line.

This is not new, people may just want to experience the railway, they may not feel like walking or of course it could be all they can afford.

Here is a ticket from Wansford to Castor, not exactly a long journey, but it may have been made for one of the reasons above, who knows. 6d in old money is 2 ½ p in current money.

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Postcards.

One thing that’s always popular when visiting somewhere is to buy a postcard, and the railway sells lots of them every year.

Well here are two that were available many years ago advertising Peterborough.

As can be seen from the second image postcards were often colourful or though perhaps basic in their content.

Some of these older cards are very collectable these days, I wonder how many that are now worth money have been thrown away or destroyed over the years?