The Wisbech and March line is a railway line between March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England. A number of proposals are currently being investigated relating to the possible restoration of passenger services along the route. History The passing of the Wisbech, St. Ives and Cambridge Junction Railway Act 1846 (c.ccclvi) authorised the construction of two lines from March railway station: a line to the Market town and Port of Wisbech which was reached by an almost straight north-easterly route across The Fens and a line south to the market town of St Ives. The double-track line to Wisbech was the first to open on 3 May 1847 followed by the St Ives line nine months later. Before the line was completed the Wisbech, March, and St Ives Railway (as the company had renamed itself) was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway; which would itself become part the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. Wisbech was served by a station constructed in the town centre and named "Wisbeach", with Coldham the only other station between Wisbech and March. A second line reached Wisbech in March 1848 with the opening of a single-track line constructed by the East Anglian Railway from Watlington Junction. Although a connection for freight was made between the two lines, passengers initially had to walk from one station to the other to make a through journey, until the Eastern Counties Railway took over the East Anglian Railway in 1852. Both stations continued to exist until 1863 when the Great Eastern Railway consolidated all passenger services at the through station, with the original terminus station becoming a goods station for freight. The through station was renamed Wisbech East after nationalisation of the railways to distinguish it from another Wisbech station which had been opened by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway on the northern side of the river in 1866, that was given the name Wisbech North (closed to passengers in 1959). Although not recommended for closure in the Beeching Report of 1963, the series of lines around Wisbech were gradually closed from the 1960s onwards. Coldham station was closed in 1966, followed by the station at Wisbech and the line from Wisbech to Watlington in September 1968. The line between March and Wisbech remained open for freight traffic until Summer 2000, carrying steel coil for the Metal Box factory, and occasional parcels, coal and pet food trains