Important Dates

Here are a few important dates of the line when it was part of the big railway before part of it became The Nene Valley Railway.

BARNWELL STATION.

2^nd June 1845               Barnwell Station Opened
4^th May 1964                 Closed to passengers & goods

ELTON STATION.

January 1847                Elton Station Opened
7^th December 1953     Station Closed

OUNDLE STATION.

2^nd June 1845               Oundle Station Opened
4^th May 1964                 End of timetabled services
6^th November 1972       Definitive closing of station

KINGS CLIFFE STATION.

1^st November 1879        Kings Cliffe Station Opened

6^th June 1966                 Closed to passengers

3^rd June 1968               Closed completely

NASSINGTON STATION.

1^st November 1879       Nassington Station Opened

1^st July 1957                 Closed to passengers

3^rd August 1957             Closed to goods

26^th February 1971        Closing of quarry siding and final closure.

WANSFORD STATION.
The station opened with the Northampton and Peterborough Railway from Blisworth to Peterborough in 1845. Being located on the Great North Road, it was for a few years the railhead for Grantham, Lincoln, etc., which at this time were not served by any railway lines. The branch line to Stamford opened in 1867. The route to Rugby became available when the LNWR built a line from Yarwell Junction, west of Wansford tunnel, to their existing 1850 Rugby to Stamford line at Seaton. At the same time, the Great Northern began a service from Peterborough North to Leicester Belgrave Road via Wansford, Seaton and the newly opened Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway in east Leicestershire. The Leicester trains were stopped as a war economy in 1916. The Stamford branch closed in 1929, having never properly recovered from the 1926 general strike. The station closed for regular passenger services on 1 July 1957 but passenger services from Peterborough continued to use the line to Northampton until 1964, and to Rugby until 1966. The Rugby line remained open for freight as far as the sand and gravel quarries at Nassington. When these stopped, the line closed but the track remained in situ, and the line was later reopened as The Nene Valley Railway heritage railway.

CASTOR STATION.

1845                              Castor Station Opened

1957                             Castor Station Closed

ORTON WATERVILLE/OVERTON STATION.

2^nd June 1845               Orton Waterville Station opened as Overton

1^st August 1913             Renamed as Orton Waterville

5^th October 1942           Closed to regular passenger trains

PETERBOROUGH EAST.

2^nd June 1845               Peterborough East station opened and  just named Peterborough

1923                              Renamed Peterborough East

17^th April 1966               Closed to Freight

6^th June 1966                Closed to passengers

21^st September 1970    Reopened as parcels depot

23^rd December 1970    Closed