page_title: Nene Valley Railway
section_title: Society formed
hierarchical_section_title: Nene Valley Railway / History / Society formed
caption_attribution_description: English: Wansford Station on the Nene Valley Railway http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/interests/rail/stnpages/wansford.html "All photographs are Â© Owen Dunn. You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose."
context_page_description: The Nene Valley Railway is a preserved railway in Cambridgeshire, England, running between Peterborough Nene Valley and Yarwell Junction. The line is 7 ¹⁄₂ miles in length. There are stations at each terminus, and three stops en route: Orton Mere, Ferry Meadows and Wansford.
context_section_description: In 1968, the Rev. Richard Paten had bought BR Standard Class 5 4-6-0 locomotive, number 73050, for its scrap value of £3,000. His intention had been to exhibit it outside Peterborough Technology College as a monument to Peterborough's railway history. However, the locomotive was found to be in good working order, and there was much opposition to the idea of the engine being "stuffed", and it was decided to restore it to full working order.
  On 28 March 1969, the Peterborough Branch of the East Anglian Locomotive Society was formed, with the intention of purchasing and restoring the BR Pacific locomotive, number BR Standard Class 7 70000 Britannia. By 1970, the branch was strong enough to operate independently as the Peterborough Locomotive Society (PLS). In 1971, 73050 was moved to the British Sugar Corporation's sidings at Fletton, where it was joined by Hunslet 0-6-0 locomotive 'Jack's Green'. Later that year, the PLS held a meeting at which the group's name was changed to 'Peterborough Railway Society' and the idea of the Nene Valley Railway was formally launched.
caption: Wansford station viewed from the road
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