Peterborough railway station serves the cathedral city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is sited 76 miles 29 chains (122.9 km) north of London King's Cross. The station is a major interchange serving both the north-south East Coast Main Line, as well as long-distance and local east-west services. The station is managed by London North Eastern Railway. Ticket gates came into use at the station in 2012.
There have been a number of railway stations in Peterborough: Peterborough East (1845-1966), the current station which opened in 1850 (previously known by various names including Peterborough North); and briefly Peterborough Crescent (1858-1866).
Peterborough was the site of the first mast to be installed as part of the ECML electrification project, which is located behind platform 1.
Peterborough East opened on 2 June 1845 along with the Ely to Peterborough Line built by Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) and the Northampton and Peterborough Railway built by the London and Birmingham Railway, both of which provided routes to London. The Syston and Peterborough Railway by Midland Railway was opened in 1846. On 7 August 1862, the ECR became part of the Great Eastern Railway (GER).
Interchange between Peterborough East and the GNR station was inconvenient, so on 1 February 1858 the Midland Railway opened Peterborough Crescent station, a short distance from the GNR station and close to the level crossing of the same name. Some GER trains were working through to the GNR Station by 1863. and the Crescent station closed on 1 August 1866 when Midland Railway trains began using the GNR station instead.
A further major remodeling occurred in 2013, when three new platforms were opened and the original platform 1 bay was removed. Original platforms 2 and 3 were renumbered 1 and 2.
A new platform face on the southbound through line was opened and numbered 3, together with a new island platform to the west of the station, on the site of the former fly-ash sidings and reversible freight line, these being numbered 6 and 7. Both the passenger footbridge and the former parcels bridge at the north end of the station were extended to the new island, lifts being added to the passenger footbridge.
The station has a concourse and ticket office area which was internally redesigned and reopened in mid-2012. The concourse features both a newsagents and a cafe.
For general assistance there is a customer information point located on platform 1 by the concourse, as well as customer service offices on platform 5 and near the toilets on platform 2. All platforms are accessible by means of a passenger footbridge with lifts and also by a ramp bridge at the north end of the station.
There is on site car parking. Within a few minutes walk is Peterborough city centre, and the Queensgate shopping centre. As of March 2013, there is an automated cycle hire scheme outside the south end of the station building.
Duration of the video: 08:18 - 10:30
We’ll be seeing services by LNER, Great Northern, Hull Trains, Grand Central, East Midlands Railway, Cross Country, Thameslink, Lumo, Locomotive Services, West Coast Railways and some freight as well.
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I really appreciated my time that was spent at Peterborough especially with what I managed to see plus it was a positive that I had some railtours making an appearance whilst I was at Peterborough and not only that there were some freight that were passing through the station as well.
My next station will be Finsbury Park which is situated on the East Coast Mainline it’s been quite awhile since I last visited there so until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.