{"id":191,"date":"2020-08-17T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-08-17T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:40:38","slug":"peterborough-main-line-to-orton-mere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough Main Line to Orton Mere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years one of the questions I am asked on a regular basis is why we don&#8217;t have a service to Peterborough main line station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My answer to it is, we used to&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before our city centre station opened there was for a time a Saturday service from the main line station to Orton Mere via the Fletton loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a DMU at Orton Mere on that service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Scan10113-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Scan10113-1024x690.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Scan10113-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Scan10113-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Scan10113-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Scan10113.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I wonder if many people have a ticket from making that trip? Well if you don&#8217;t then here is one from Saturday 8th June 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191-489x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191-489x1024.jpg 489w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191-143x300.jpg 143w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191-768x1609.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191-733x1536.jpg 733w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191-977x2048.jpg 977w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0191.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Who knows if such a service will run again? Personally I doubt it but then again you never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years one of the questions I am asked on a regular basis is why we don&#8217;t have a service to Peterborough main line station. My answer to it is, we used to&#8230;. Before our city centre station opened there was for a time a Saturday service from the main line station to Orton &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peterborough Main Line to Orton Mere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-souvenirs","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}