How nice to see more cruisers .The first modern day narrow boat that we saw in the 1970s was one built at Foxes yard in March called Fox Hunter. Narrow boats must be great to live on but they take up a lot of mooring space compared to cruisers.

Brilliant

Here's a little fun fact the line from March to Wisbech might reopen as a heritage railway

Amazing! Great catches, wow! Thanks for sharing 👍 Watching from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Like so many others, cast aside, deemed no longer necessary for purpose, how the march of time changes the face of the once bustling scene of yesteryear. They were the motorways of their day, swift, and smooth running in comparison to the motley pot holed, bumpy uncomfortable excuses for roads of the nineteenth century. Now just photographic images and memories of a bygone era.😢

Shame they closed the other platforms at March. Maybe one day they'll re-open them for HS2 one day...

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Thanks for this…much appreciated. 😊. 🚂🚴‍♂️👣🇺🇦

I can watch this over and over again..why was it closed? Great music..but the one I think of watching this is "In the Fen Country " R V Williams

I worked March East Signalbox for one shift under instruction, as part of a job swap.

Fantastic piece of work, came across this vlog by chance………. Now I know all the places I pass on my cycle route down past whitemoor and beyond 👏🏽

just felt like nipping back again , just to sit quietly as i hope grandad did , i never tire of watching this film , as ever my warmest wishes from lancashire

My favourite place on earth 😊

So sad to see what Britain has lost

Thank's for this, great piece of film.

Excellent video thanks, even if it sad 😢

Should have been entitled stopping at March Station, great video

just had to watch again , i wanted to be near grandad , such beautiful music too , kind regards from wigan , lancashire

I remember cycling from Leicester to my Aunts house in Wroxham as a 15 year old lad and watching several long freights going over Guyhirn bridge as I rode towards it on the A47 past the Coronation Cafe. Most trains seemed to have Austerity 2-8-0 locos at the head. Now the bridge and line have gone and it's like another time and place. Brings back some great memories of 60 odd years ago. Thank you for filming it, despite the current scene of desolation.

My oldest daughter lives in March, and we travelled to Peterborough from March station when I visited last year. This is really interesting

Used to be part of the route for the old Liverpool Central to Harwich boat trains, back in the immediate post war years.

I'm just surprised that the Romford to Upminster and Upminster to Grays survived the Beeching Cuts

Bizarre. Thought this was the station house that was removed brick by brick when it was down High Street Fletton, then rebuilt at Ferry Meadows

I went to a scrap yard near Guyhirn late 1980's and saw piles and piles of signal arms and the gantry steelwork that appeard to have been recently cut down. I regret not trying to purchase some in case they were completely destroyed. Please tell me some were salvaged. The Rings End viaduct should have had a building preservation listing to preserve it. I always considered the arches a work art, something you never expected to see crossing the Fens. Beeching should be classified as a Traitor for the damage to "OUR" railway networks he inflicted. Arrrh! Arrrh!

Railway Movies. The Titfield Thunderbolt 1952. The Great Train Robbery 1963. The Railway Children 1970 & 2000. Thomas and the Magic Railroad 2000.

Victorian Era 1837-1901.

I also have a Hardback Book called The Railway Policeman. The Story of the Constable on the Track.

I have the DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of TRAIN. Discover the story of railways - from the days of steam to the high - speed, sophisticated trains of today. In association with THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM.

I was born in Wisbech, but lived in Upwell back in the 50s. I still have family living there, March, Three Holes, Welney, Downham Mkt, in fact all over that area. To see these films is wonderful bringing back childhood memories. I haven't been back there in about 12-15 years and I miss living there. Have you done a film on the old Fruit Growers Special that ran between Wisbech & Upwell? They built a housing estate on the old goods yard.

simply beautiful , thank you from wigan lancashire , a town of lost railways too

What a lovely east west railway into the Midlands it would be now while at the same time roads get fuller

Moved to March from London in 1973, met and married a local girl. I soon got used to the trains and the shunting at all hours, along with the cold store in Marwick Road. I remember being concerned about crossing the line at the crossing on Elm Road on the way to 20 Foot on my moped. It did have speed warnings. Their were proper gates and a pedestrian bridge at the Station Road crossing, gone now. Moved to Peterborough in the 80s but still pop over to visit relatives and buy our favourite pork pies in town. I forgot to mention the Deltic, people seemed to talk about it. Not knowing much about railways I thought it was the name of a particular engine, not a model.

what a beautiful film in every way , well done and thank you , my late grandad was a career signal man , oh boy how i wish i could ask him now all the things i need to know , god rest his gentle soul , very best wishes from wigan lancashire , a world of lost signal boxes too

I grew up in March. I live in Bristol now. I go back for a short stay most summers. Once you've been there it's hard not to go back.

I so enjoyed this 👍

That was brilliant ,thanks for sharing,

Going back to this film my Dad was born in GullDrove crossing house in1924 and my Grandad was rewarded 10 Shillings for running the line to place detonators to make a major Derailment into a smaller one right near the said crossing

I have worked in march west and whitemoor jun signal boxes in the 80's and bring back the good old memories from my time in march

Many happy days I spent there at whitemoor yards sadly all gone near anough

Very, very interesting, thank you for compiling and sharing👍

Thank you for this bright high Quality example. :-) I love cristal clear Pictures without motion blur and smooth movements. (I don‘t like Cinema Colors or Picture manipulation, the spatial Picture quality is bad and degenerate) For Motion maybe in 60 fps recorded and play is smoother (Frames with short shutter speed (high speed) with 30 fps and below or fps convert have motion stutter. With ND Filter for example 30 fps is 1/60s shutter speed or 24 fps is 1/48s) I hope we have in future reale 8K 120 fps or 4K 120fps (85“ TV Dolby is below 1.5m Visual Distance, or Laser Projection or micro LED Wall)

What a lovely fitting memorial. Especially nice to see that the crew are individually remembered.

All the hard work put in building the closed network of our railways destroyed by short sighted people.

Three Horse Shoes is a curiosity, once guarding a short goods line into middle of nowhere...

Would have been a useful cross country line today, had it been spared.

Thank you for posting this great piece of railway nostalgia. A relative of mine has just moved to March so I can relate to some of the images. March rail traffic must have been great in its heyday.

thanks Barry. spent many a happy few hours in or about march with my mini van, gran and little stove watching trains.

Wow, that was a lot of boxes. Very nicely done sir.

Excellent photos of the old signal boxes and railway in the March area never realised how many SB's there were thanks for sharing

Lovely video, thanks so much 🤗