BBC Look East report - March to Wisbech Rail line

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BBC Look East news report (27/03/2014)

News report covering the on-going campaign to re-open the former and still intact Wisbech branch line that finally closed in 2001.

 

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Published on 13th March 2014

Cambridgeshire MP Steve Barclay gives an update on the campaign to reconnect Wisbech to the rail network following a meeting in Parliament with Transport Minister, Stephen Hammond and a host of political leaders and rail experts.

 

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Published on 10 Apr 2014

Following the publication of a game-changing report on the expected benefits of reopening the Wisbech-March rail line North-East Cambridgeshire MP Steve Barclay speaks on why momentum must be maintained. Part of this video update shows March Station and also the closed Wisbech rail line at its temporarily removed A47 level crossing.

 

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Exciting news.

 

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I love hearing news like this!
Great news.

John

 

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The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway (1883 - 1966)

* A short B&W documentary made by Anglia TV in 1961

http://www.lner.info/co/GER/wisbech/wisbech.shtml

 

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Whitemoor Marshalling Yards, March, Cambridgeshire

* Anglia TV Documentary ''Here and Now'' filmed in 1963

 

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Wisbech Rail

 

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Railways around King's Lynn, Norfolk, back in 1984

*Demo video showing the Saddlebow Sugarbeet Factory, near the old South Lynn Station site, being served by incoming oil tanker wagons; and the London to King's Lynn passenger train arriving at the town's centrally placed station.