Whittlesea railway station

Railway station in Cambridgeshire, England

This article is about the station in Cambridgeshire, England. For the former station in Melbourne, Australia, see Whittlesea railway station, Melbourne.

Whittlesea

Looking west from platform 2 towards platform 1 and the level crossing

General information
Location| Whittlesey, Fenland
England
Coordinates| 52°32′57″N 0°07′06″W﻿ / ﻿52.5493°N 0.1184°W﻿ / 52.5493; -0.1184
Grid reference| TL277963
Managed by| Greater Anglia
Platforms| 2
Other information
Station code| WLE
Classification| DfT category F2
Passengers
2018/19|  31,986
2019/20|  35,230
2020/21|  8,026
2021/22|  26,436
2022/23|  33,738
Notes

Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Whittlesea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the East of England and serves the market town of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. Whittlesea is an older and alternative spelling of the town's name.[citation needed]

It is located in between March and Peterborough stations, 94 miles 60 chains (152.5 km) away from London Liverpool Street via Ely.

All of the original station buildings have long since been demolished and only the two staggered platforms remain. Unlike most level crossings, the gates at Whittlesea station are still opened and closed manually by a member of railway staff, who is based in the adjacent crossing keeper's hut.

On 14 September 1968, Flying Scotsman stopped at the station twice to have its tenders refilled with water. The locomotive was chartering The Chesterfield Flyer from Ipswich to Chesterfield, via Norwich.[1]

## Services[edit]

Greater Anglia provides the primary service at Whittlesea. There is one train every two hours each way, including Sundays, between Peterborough and Ipswich; there are occasional extensions to Colchester.

CrossCountry operates three trains per day Monday-Saturday between Birmingham and Cambridge, of which two are extended beyond Cambridge to Stansted Airport.

East Midlands Railway runs a single morning service to Liverpool Lime Street Monday-Saturday only.[2]

Preceding station  |  |  National Rail |  | Following station

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March

| | Abellio Greater Anglia

Ipswich–Peterborough

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Peterborough

| CrossCountry

Birmingham–Stansted Airport

Limited service

| East Midlands Railway

Liverpool–Norwich

Limited service

Historical railways

Eastrea

Line open, station closed

| | Great Eastern Railway

Ely–Peterborough line

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Peterborough East

Line open, station closed

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The Railtour Files" 14 September 1968 - Flying Scotsman Enterprises, Chesterfield Flyer Rail Tour https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/680914fs.html, Retrieved 1 January 2021
2. ^ Table 17 National Rail timetable, December 2019

## External links[edit]

Media related to Whittlesea railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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