Former station to be moved 'brick by brick' to railway museum

Wansford Road station is saved from demolition and will become part of the Nene Valley Railway.

put a joint application to National Highways to dismantle and move the station to the Nene Valley site.More than £200,000 of funding from National Highways will be used to support the work.

The station, which is located between the villages of Wansford and Sutton, was built in 1867 and closed to passengers in 1929.said: "Breathing life into the old Wansford Road station building, which has remained unused for a number of years now, was something we wanted to do as it currently sits in the path of the new A47 upgrade.

Mike Kerfoot, chairman of Nene Valley Railway, said: "I couldn't think of a more appropriate use than to see the station put back on the right track, and once again fulfil its railway heritage." Robbie Reid, a local campaigner who put in an application to keep the station in the parish of Sutton and Wansford, said he was "disappointed".

"At the end of the day, what really matters is that I wanted to save these buildings from being demolished," he said.

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