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Peterborough railway station
serves the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is
76 miles 29 chains (122.9 km) down the East Coast Main Line from
London King's Cross. The station is a major interchange serving
both the north–south ECML, as well as long-distance and local
east–west services. The station is managed by London North
Eastern Railway. Ticket gates came into use at the station in
2012.
There have been a number of railway stations in Peterborough:
Peterborough East (1845–1966), the current station which opened
in 1850 (previously known by various names including
Peterborough North); and briefly Peterborough Crescent
(1858–1866).
Peterborough was the site of the first mast to be installed as
part of the ECML electrification project, which is located
behind platform 1.
The station has a concourse and ticket office area which was
internally redesigned and reopened in mid-2012. The concourse
features both a newsagents and a cafe. For general assistance
there is a customer information point located on platform 1 by
the concourse, as well as customer service offices on platform 5
and near the toilets on platform 2. All platforms are accessible
by means of a passenger footbridge with lifts and also by a ramp
bridge at the north end of the station.
There is on site car parking. Within a few minutes walk is
Peterborough city centre, and the Queensgate shopping centre. As
of March 2013, there is an automated cycle hire scheme outside
the south end of the station building.
There are regular services to and from London King's Cross,
operated by London North Eastern Railway and by Great Northern.
Southbound EC services run either non-stop to the capital or
call only at Stevenage: northbound destinations include
Edinburgh Waverley , Glasgow Central, Leeds, Lincoln Central,
and Newcastle (though many Scottish services now run non-stop
from London to York).
Great Northern trains start and terminate at Peterborough (twice
each hour with peak period extras Mon-Sat) and serve the
intermediate stations southwards. This has now become a
Thameslink service largely to and from Horsham.
CrossCountry regional services run hourly between Birmingham via
Leicester and Cambridge.
East Midlands Railway are also hourly, between Norwich and
Liverpool via Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly.
EMR also operate local services to Spalding, Sleaford and
Lincoln on an approximately hourly frequency (though morning
peak and evening services only run as far as Spalding).
Greater Anglia operate a two-hourly service to Ipswich via Ely
and Bury St Edmunds.
Sunday services run less frequently on the ECML, but on similar
frequencies on the regional routes other than the Spalding Line,
which has no service.
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