Whittlesea railway station

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	52.5493°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
2019/20	35,230
2020/21	8,026
2021/22	26,436
2022/23	33,738
2023/24	43,364
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. The station's name is an older and alternative spelling of the town's name.

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.

Greater Anglia provides the primary service at Whittlesea. There is one train every 2 hours each way, including Sundays Cross Country are very limited at Whittlesea with services to Cambridge & Birmingham New Street and Stansted Airport East Midlands Railway only run 1 train Monday to Saturday through to Liverpool Lime Street via Nottingham

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