New Peterborough station plans progress
THE project to reconstruct the historic Wansford Road station building at the Nene Valley Railway’s (NVR) Peterborough terminus has reached a key milestone.
The structure has now been dismantled and removed to a storage compound. The project is being carried out by the Wansford Road CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) – whose prime purpose is to move, build and operate the gateway to both Railworld and NVR.
As previously reported, the former Wansford Road station was built in 1869 for the Stamford and Essendine Railway, which linked Stamford with Wansford on today’s NVR, the station closed along with the route in 1929. Located in the path of anew dual carriageway on the A47 between the villages of Wansford and Sutton in Cambridgeshire, National Highways launched a project to save the station. The NVR and Railworld were awarded the future use of the building, which had to be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere.