File:Victorian Engine Shed At The Former Peterborough East Station (geograph 4261518).jpg
Passenger services on the line to Northampton were discontinued in May 1964 and freight services from Peterborough East were terminated in April 1966. The remaining passenger services on the route to Rugby were withdrawn in June 1966 although the station continued to serve as a parcel depot until December 1970.
The site was proposed in 1971 as a possible location for the National Railway Museum (although this was eventually located in York, opening in 1975). The station building was demolished in 1972. The turntable was acquired by the Nene Valley Railway (NVR) in 1977 and moved to Wansford, leaving the engine shed plus adjacent goods sheds and a section of the main platform as the only remaining structures.
The Peterborough to Ely line, which runs past the site, is still in use. The East station site is earmarked for redevelopment.
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