Whittlesea railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Whittlesea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the East of England and serves the market town of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. The station's name is an older and alternative spelling of the town's name.

It is located in between Template:Rws and Template:Rws stations, away from London Liverpool Street via Template:Rws.

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

Greater Anglia provides the primary service at Whittlesea. There is one train every 2 hours each way, including Sundays Cross Country are very limited at Whittlesea with services to Cambridge & Birmingham New Street and Stansted Airport East Midlands Railway only run 1 train Monday to Saturday through to Liverpool Lime Street via Nottingham

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