Orton Waterville railway station served the villages of Orton Waterville and Orton Longueville in Cambridgeshire . It was on the London and North Western Railway Northampton to Peterborough line . The station was originally called Overton . The station was closed to regular passenger trains in 1942 but was used by railway staff until the Wansford to Peterborough section closed in 1966 and subsequently the station was demolished . A new station Ferry Meadows was constructed on the same site and was opened with the line in 1977 by the Nene Valley Railway . On 1 June 2017 it was renamed Overton for Ferry Meadows Ferry Meadows Station will be the site of the Nene Valley 's Travelling Post Office ( TPO ) Museum . ' Night Mail ' , The International Story of Mail by Rail , will be unique in telling the story of mail across the Continent thanks to the NVR 's unique collection of Mail and European rail vehicles . The museum will house both British mail carriages , a number of road vehicles and Continental vehicles . This includes the last surviving coach from the Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Ferry Meadows railway station