I spoke to a driver last night, one of the few remaining who passed out on steam, and he says that it was quite common to re-route through Cambridge, Ely, March and then to Peterborough. Interestingly they only used to let the Hitchin drivers go as far as March, the "Bungits" insisted on taking over there!
March in those days of course was an enormous marshalling yard, it's now a prison.
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