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Class 105 Cravens dmu's 51255 and 51273 lay over in the Down Yard en route for scrap.
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MARCH STATION YARDS

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Welcome to my new gallery. You may know my 'Eurospotter' gallery of Continental pictures. I've created this one to show British stuff specifically shot between Whittlesea (sic) in the west and Ely North Junction in the east, giving details of locations etc., so rather than being chronological, I aim to make it location specific. Good photographic vantage points are few and far between in the Fens due to a marked lack of bridges (only two road overbridges and two footbridges between Whittlesea and Ely!) and bends (three, 2 through March and a kink at Three Horseshoes) but we do have a plethora of level crossings (about 40 by my (amended) reckoning between those same two points) so I hope to give some idea of where good spots are on what is fast becoming a very busy stretch of railway line, particularly on a Saturday afternoon, when it may even be the busiest freight route in the country.
24/01/06: I have just bought a scanner and so I am putting some of my old pictures onto the gallery. You might think they are bit odd datewise but there are two reasons fot that: the first is that family problems kept me more or less away from all railways between 1990 and 1995 and the pictures published here are virtually all I have from this period, secondly, when I bought my first Praktica MTL3 in about 1984, a 'friend' who was 'in the know' convinced me that slides were better than prints and, knowing nothing, I went along until about 1989 and then I saw the light. I only took prints when I couldn't afford expensive slide film. I have about 2500 slides of March from 1984 to 1989 which I have no idea what to do with - anyone got any ideas?
20:02:07 I have just bought a slide scanner and have 2641 slides to scan and add. Many are elsewhere than the Fens and I am doing them just at random. It will take me years, I hope. Checkout my British Rail Rover site for the first ones, Rugby in July 1986. Some are none too sharp but I was using 65ASA Perutz on an MTL 4 in those days - loads of 1//125th!

About Me

I am a 56 year old retired schoolteacher, still almost sane, who has never grown up and quite pleased about it too. I have been interested in railways for at least 49 of those years. I used to love UK railways but what's to love anymore? I do still photograph in this country, mainly in my own locality, but I do find endless parades of Yings a little depressing.

Location: March, Home of Whitemoor Yard

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Top Photographs This Week

1	Class 105 Cravens dmu's 51255 and 51273 lay over in the Down Yard en route for scrap.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(15)
2	Lost in a forest of silver birches, this board once controlled access to/from the Norwood Yard.	THE FALL AND RISE OF WHITEMOOR YARD.	(5)
3	DW150111 was an interesting find in Whitemoor, en route for scrap. I'm not quite sure what it, was or might have been.	THE FALL AND RISE OF WHITEMOOR YARD.	(4)
4	45 051 draws 6Y41 March - Kennett/Barham slowly uphill and out of the Up Loop.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(4)
5	47 473 waits in the down loop with 4S93 Felixstowe - Coatbridge.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(3)
6	Great Western pattern 'Toad' brakevan on an engineer's train in the Up Yard.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
7	37 174 has the BR Exhibition Train stock behind it in the Up Loop.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
8	37 105 and 37 101 wait in the Up Loop in a blizzard with 4E97 Coatbridge - Felixstowe.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
9	47 363 waits with a freightliner in the Up Loop - two in a day - one must have been delayed or diverted due to the weather.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
10	The Up Hump. No sign of the prison yet. One of the three-aspect signals is still in place, as is the shunters hut. Note the top of the control tower over the hump.	THE FALL AND RISE OF WHITEMOOR YARD.	(2)
11	25 173 has just got the road from the down loop with 6E07 Foxton - Thoresby - I think they only worked it empty!	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
12	25 059 arrives at March with 6H94 Bury - Whitemoor.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
13	31 278 is leaving the Up Loop with 9H77 Peterborough - Chesterton Junction.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
14	20 104 and 20 133 are on the 6E07 Foxton - Thoresby Colliery coal empties.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
15	A rake of what look like Class 302 EMU's backe4d into the Up Yard, destined for Snailwell.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
16	The Tiphook Road/Railer is stabled in Whitemoor Yard - in reality, it just consists of 3 bogies.	THE FALL AND RISE OF WHITEMOOR YARD.	(2)
17	03084 brings up the rear as 37 097 heads for Doncaster Works with 31407, 31 215 and 03 399 also in tow.	NORWOOD ROAD LEVEL CROSSING	(2)
18	31 410 waits for the road from the Down Loop with a short engineer's train.	MARCH STATION YARDS	(2)
19	47 428 has a good load on with the Blackpool - Cambridge.	MARCH SOUTH	(1)
20	25 323 is on the Foxton - Thoresby MGR empties.	NORWOOD ROAD LEVEL CROSSING	(1)
21	This was the mainline to Spalding and points north at one time - you can't even reach the Twenty Foot now.	THE FALL AND RISE OF WHITEMOOR YARD.	(1)
22	A Class 101 DMU tackles the short but quite stgeep climb away from the site of Chettisham Station on a local for Peterborough.	A10 ELY BYPASS OVERBRIDGE, CHETTISHAM.	(1)
23	56 058 goes into the cutting with 6L23 March - Trowse Redland stone.	A10 ELY BYPASS OVERBRIDGE, CHETTISHAM.	(1)
24	37 118heads north on 6S96 Whitemoor - Mossend.	A141 OVERBRIDGE	(1)
25	25 059 forges through the mist with 6H94 Bury - Whitemoor.	MARCH STATION	(1)