Whittlesea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the East of England and serves the town of

Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 16,058 at the 2011 Census. History and architecture W ...

, Cambridgeshire. ''Whittlesea'' is an older and alternative spelling of the town's name. It is located in between and stations, away from

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via . All of the original station buildings have long since been demolished and only the two staggered platforms remain. Unlike most

level crossings A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel. The term als ...

, the gates at Whittlesea station are still opened and closed manually by a member of railway staff, who is based in the adjacent crossing keeper's hut. On 14 September 1968, ''Flying Scotsman'' stopped at the station twice to have its tenders refilled with water. The locomotive was chartering ''The Chesterfield Flyer'' from Ipswich to

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, via

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Services

Greater Anglia provides the primary service at Whittlesea. There is one train every two hours each way, including Sundays, between

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

and

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...

; there are occasional extensions to

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colch ...

. CrossCountry operates three trains per day Monday-Saturday between

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and

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, of which two are extended beyond Cambridge to . East Midlands Railway runs a single morning service to

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Monday-Saturday only.

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Railway stations in Cambridgeshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations served by CrossCountry Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Whittlesey {{EastEngland-railstation-stub