The station was formerly the junction for a branch to Stamford, which diverged to the north just east of the river bridge at Wansford.

Services to Rugby ( by London and North Western Railway from Peterborough East ) and to Leicester ( by GNR from their Station ) started in 1879 when the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway ( M & GNR ) built a line from Yarwell junction near Wansford and Seaton linking the Northampton and Peterborough Railway and the Rugby and Stamford Railway.

Also in 1910, the GNR were still running trains to Leicester via Wansford and Seaton, in direct competition with the Midland Railway which ran via Stamford.

The station building is now preserved at Wansford station on the NVR, and is known as the Barnwell building.

The original Wansford station is located on platform three and was built in 1844-1845 in Jacobean style for the opening of the railway.

Arrived on 20 May 2010 at Wansford, from the North Norfolk Railway, for its impending major overhaul.

After that shed closed the turntable was rebuilt at Wansford station on the Nene Valley railway

The canal opened progressively, with the first section completed on 12 December 1768, the next section to Wansford open by 25 May 1769, and the whole canal formally opened on 25 May 1770.

56128 ( which was to become 56313 ) is also owned by British American Railway Services but it's use on the mainline is now uncertain, as it remains stored at Wansford ( Nene Valley Railway ; BARS ' former base which they no longer use, instead favouring the former Alstom facility at Washwood Heath ).

Before the stock could be moved from the BSC depot to Wansford, the missing of the Fletton Loop had to be rebuilt, allowing access to the Nene Valley line.

He became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1968 and was elevated as a life peer with the title Baron Diplock, of Wansford in the County of Huntingdonshire to the House of Lords.

It is situated next to Little Driffield, where King Aldfrith of Northumbria was reputedly buried, and is also very close to Nafferton, Hutton Cranswick and Wansford.

The track was completed in March 1974 and the stock moved to Wansford in time for the Easter weekend, when the new ' Wansford Steam Centre ' opened for the first time.

The necessary funding to restore the lock at Wansford was secured in mid 2008 and work commenced later the same year.

However some small remnants remain along the Hull valley between Driffield and Wansford.

As well as stations at each terminus, there are currently three stops en route: Orton Mere, Ferry Meadows and Wansford.

This turned Wansford, previously an unimportant village station, into a major junction.

In 1884 the line received a royal visit when the royal family travelled between Peterborough and Barnwell, some beyond Wansford, to visit Barnwell Manor, home of the then Duke of Gloucester.

In 1973, BR gave PRS permission to use Wansford signal box and, in September of that year, the first items of stock arrived at the PRS depot.

Yarwell Junction is about 1 mile west of Wansford station, at the other end of Yarwell Tunnel.

Wansford is the headquarters of the railway and most of the facilities are based here.

Castor is a disused station between Wansford and Ferry Meadows.

He suggested a cut from near Wansford to Driffield Beck.

Another major obstruction to the renewal of the navigation to Driffield occurred in 1967, when the County Council replaced the bridge which carries the public right of way over the Navigation at Wansford with a fixed bridge.

The Lincoln Heath to Peterborough trust was organized in districts of which that covering the road from Colsterworth to Stamford Hill, Bourne was the ‘’ West District ’’.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

| West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge on 23 September 1905 ; Chelsea won 1 – 0.

On 3 October 2011, Chelsea made a proposal to CPO shareholders to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits, stating that " buying back the freehold removes a potential hurdle should a suitable site become available in the future ".

* 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

* The 1817 book on the history of the island, by Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.

Liverpool achieved this by winning the League Championship by two points over Everton ( Dalglish himself scored the winner in a 1 – 0 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to secure the title on the final day of the season ), and the FA Cup by beating Everton in the final.

Singapore became numerically dominated by immigrant ethnic groups soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post on the island in 1819.

King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

* January 29 – Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

They were in turn defeated and slain by Harold's army five days later at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harold having led his army north on a forced march from London in four days and caught them by surprise.

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 less than three weeks after the Battle of Stamford Bridge but the tapestry does not provide this context.

Burghley HouseBurghley House near the town of Stamford was built for Cecil between 1555 and 1587 and modelled on the privy lodgings of Richmond Palace.

Having survived all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford.

His luck came to an end, however, in the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September, in which he was defeated and killed by Harold Godwinson's forces.

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway ( Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði ) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

Having learned that Northumbrians had been ordered to send the additional hostages and supplies to the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge, Harold hurried on through York to attack them at this rendezvous on 25 September.

Less than three weeks after Stamford Bridge, on 14 October, Harold was defeated and killed at the Battle of Hastings, beginning the Norman Conquest of England, and ending the Anglo-Saxon era.

Hardrada invaded northern England in September 1066 and was victorious at the Battle of Fulford before being defeated and killed by King Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September 1066.

Learning of the Norwegian invasion, he rushed north, gathering forces as he went, and took the Norwegians by surprise, defeating them at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September.

This, the highest-scoring Charity Shield game to date, was played on 25 September 1911 at Stamford Bridge with Manchester United winning 8 – 4.

The carved detail is based on the fragment in Stamford Museum.

Two years later during a British raid on Greenwich on February 26, 1779 General Israel Putnam, who had stayed at Knapp's Tavern the previous night, rode away on his horse to warn the people of Stamford.