March railway station

March
Location
Place	March
Local authority	Fenland
Coordinates	52.5604°N 0.0905°E / 52.5604; 0.0905
Operations
Station code	MCH
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.255 million
2005/06 *	0.277 million
2006/07 *	0.297 million
2007/08 *	0.293 million
2008/09 *	305,256
2009/10 *	301,832
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at March from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

March railway station serves the town of March in Cambridgeshire, England. The station is 22 km (14 mi) east of Peterborough on the Ely to Peterborough Line.

The station was once a major railway junction with a confluence of lines radiating from the town. The station has been reduced in importance in recent years with several railway lines being dismantled or mothballed. The important cross-country regional route between Ely and Peterborough still runs through the station and an increasing number of freight trains pass through the town.

The station originally had seven platforms. However, two of these are now filled-in bay platforms, and the track has been removed from a further west-facing bay on the southern side of the station. There are now just two operational platforms, although track has recently been re-laid on two disused platforms on the northern side of the station and it is anticipated that these may be used should proposals to reopen the line to Wisbech come to fruition. The Whitemoor marshalling yard has now been returned to use in 2004 having been disused since the early 1990s.

Spalding and Wisbech branches

March was once a junction for lines to Spalding and Wisbech. The Spalding line was closed in 1982 and has now been completely lifted. The Wisbech line, known as "The Bramley Line" by some, completely closed in 2001 having lost its regular passenger services in 1968. The trackwork however remains intact and there are plans to reopen the line as a heritage line run and maintained by enthusiasts. As part of these plans during 2006 the level crossing over the A47 was re-laid, having been removed following one complaint about the rails being loose, so supposedly dangerous, in 2004.

Service

On Weekdays, Greater Anglia operate a two hourly service eastbound to Ipswich and westbound to Peterborough. CrossCountry operate an hourly service eastbound to Cambridge and Stansted Airport, westbound services serve Peterborough, Leicester and Birmingham New Street.

On Sundays the service frequency is similar, without CrossCountry services to Whittlesea and Manea.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Peterborough		CrossCountry Birmingham-Stansted Airport		Ely
Whittlesea Limited Service				Manea Limited Service
Whittlesea		Greater Anglia Ely-Peterborough Line		Ely
Peterborough		East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich Limited Service		Ely
Whittlesea Limited Service
	Proposed Heritage railways
Terminus		Wisbech and March Bramleyline		March Elm Road
	Historical railways
Eastrea Line open, station closed		Great Eastern Railway Peterborough to Ely		Stonea Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Terminus		Great Eastern Railway March to King's Lynn		Coldham Line and station closed
Guyhirne Line and station closed		Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway Doncaster to March		Terminus
Terminus		Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway March to St Ives		Wimblington Line and station closed

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  Class 37 at March station, autumn 1972

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  Leeds/Bradford - Yarmouth (Vauxhall) express in 1958

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  March Locomotive Depot in 1951

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  An ex-Great Eastern J15 0-6-0 in 1946]

External links

Media related to March railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Friends Of March Railway Station