On 11th September 2021 the line to Peterborough was closed due to engineering work at Whittlesea and trains from Ipswich terminated in the station with some long layovers. 755419 waits to leave Ely with the 16.32 to Ipswich whilst 755402 has just arrived with the 15.20 Norwich to Stanstead Airport and raised its pantograph in readiness to depart to the South. Photo: Alan Jones.

On 11th August 2021, DB Class 66 No. 66113 runs South through Ely's Platform 1 with empty stone hoppers and into the Down Sidings to run round on 4M86, the 16.00 Ely Papworth Sidings to Peak Forest. Limestone is carried from the Peak District to Ely for use in sugar beet processing at the British Sugar works at Bury St Edmunds, Wissington and Cantley. Photo: Alan Jones.

At the start of the leaf-fall season, 57002 is caught accelerating Northbound out of the Ely Up Goods Loop with a Rail Head Treatment Train on 15th October 2012. Photo: Robert Bartlett.

The plethora of signs at the North end of platforms 2 and 3 at Ely leaves no room for error! Thirty-four year old veteran Class 156 No. 156406 approaches with an East Midlands working to Norwich on 24th February 2022. For many years the only regular passenger working over the Ely avoiding line has been the Sunday departure from Norwich just before 4pm - most likely to meet a legal commitment after the locomotive hauled Birmingham-Norwich trains, which regularly used the avoiding line, were replaced with Sprinters which ran into the station and reversed. Photo: Michael Smyth.

The origins of Ely Cathedral date back to AD 673 when St Etheldreda built an Abbey Church. The building seen here dates back to 1083 and was granted Cathedral status in 1109. More recently, 60163 'Tornado' accelerates 1Z42, the 08.30 Colchester-York 'Cathedrals Express' towards the three-way Ely North Junction on 10th May 2012. Photo: Michael Smyth.