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With a backdrop of the flat Cambridgeshire fens 31239 passes the signal box at Manea with the 1240 Parkeston Quay to Peterborough on 18th May 1979.
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With a backdrop of the flat Cambridgeshire fens 31239 passes the signal box at Manea with the 1240 Parkeston Quay to Peterborough on 18th May 1979.

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  • 25132 and 25125 head the summer Saturdays only Yarmouth to Walsall on Ely West Curve. 5th September 1980.
  • 31185/31265 on the Ely Avoiding Loop with the 0832 Derby to Yarmouth. 4th August 1979.
  • 47184, County of Cambridgeshire, heads the 0915 summer Saturdays only Yarmouth to Newcastle on the Ely avoiding loop or West curve on 24th May 1980.
  • 37173 approaches Ely North Junction with a Peterborough to Parkeston Quay working on 4th September 1979.
  • Pilot 08862 heads away from Ely North Junction with grain wagons for the grain silo at Chettisham. 4th September 1979.
  • Chettisham Signal Box c1979
  • Chettisham Signal Box 1978. Photo with kind permission of Ian Dinmore <a href="http://www.railarchive.org.uk">http://www.railarchive.org.uk</a>
  • Grain wagons at Chettisham.
  • Black Bank Signal Box. 3rd May 1979
  • With a backdrop of the flat Cambridgeshire fens 31239 passes the signal box at Manea with the 1240 Parkeston Quay to Peterborough on 18th May 1979.
  • Manea Signal Box. 19th May 1979
  • 31259 heads across a flat fen landscape with the 1236 Birmingham New Street to Norwich, East of Manea. The station signals can just be made out in the background. Image dated 19th May 1979.
  • A Birmingham RCW dmu crosses the 100ft drain near Pymore on a Peterborough to Norwich working. 21st October 1977
  • Stonea Signal Box. 23rd September 1979. Looks like the stove is going well.
  • Horsemoor Signal Box. 23rd September 1979. The box is now located at Murrow.
  • 25121/25123 pass Horsemoor box with the 0832 Derby to Yarmouth on 21st June 1980.
  • 31183/31117 head cement wagons at March South Junction. 21st June 1980.
  • The excess light getting into the lens, creates a rather ghostly atmosphere in this early winters evening view of March circa 1979. Looks like the trolleys are out on the platform ready for the next parcels.
  • A three car Birmingham RCW dmu leaves March with the 1026 Ipswich to Peterborough on 28th July 1979.
  • An unknown Class 31 passes March c1981.
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