March railway station
March 
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| Location | |
| Place | March |
| Local authority | Fenland |
| Coordinates | 52°33′38″N 0°05′26″E / 52.5605°N 0.0905°ECoordinates: 52°33′38″N 0°05′26″E / 52.5605°N 0.0905°E |
| Grid reference | TL418978 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | MCH |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 335,232 |
| 2012/13 |
350,246 |
| 2013/14 |
357,864 |
| 2014/15 |
378,586 |
| 2015/16 |
386,610 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at March from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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March railway station serves the town of March in Cambridgeshire, England. The station is 14 miles (23 km) east of Peterborough on the Ely to Peterborough Line.
The station, which was opened in 1847, was once a major railway junction with a number of lines radiating from the town. The station has been reduced in importance in recent years with several lines being dismantled or mothballed. The cross-country regional route between Ely and Peterborough still runs through the station and an increasing number of freight trains pass through.
The station originally had seven platforms. However, two of these are now filled-in bay platforms and the track has been removed from a further west-facing bay on the southern side of the station. There are now just two operational platforms, although track has been re-laid on two disused platforms on the northern side of the station and it is anticipated that these may be used should proposals to reopen the line to Wisbech come to fruition. The nearby Whitemoor marshalling yard returned to use in 2004 having been disused since the early 1990s.
March was once a junction for lines to Spalding (opened in 1867 by the Great Northern Railway and subsequently vested jointly with the Great Eastern Railway in 1879), St Ives and Watlington via Wisbech. The Spalding line was closed by British Rail in November 1982 and was completely lifted a few years later. The St Ives branch (opened in 1848) was closed completely in March 1967 as a result of the Beeching Axe, whilst the Wisbech line (known as the Bramley Line) closed to all traffic in 2000 having lost its regular passenger services (through to Kings Lynn) in September 1968. The trackwork however remains intact and there are plans to reopen the line as a heritage line run and maintained by enthusiasts.
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