Recent content by TheDavibob

I assume the plan is for, at least, all of the existing Cross Country "locals" to be rediverted to Moor Street (so two Nottingham, two Leicester (possibly) and a Cardiff), which is 5 + 4 based on the uplift on these routes alone. If (as would probably be sensible) all services to Hereford and...

Technically this isn't quite true, there is a Cambridge Stations group but it's essentially unused (see https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=8384&dest=LTV&period=20260301 for an example of where it is used; this was essentially a dubious interpretation of a request of mine for missing Advances to...

Yes, you can even see where the bridge ramp "footprint" is in to the North what is now Five Trees green area.

That said, some of the EWR changes suggested are about supporting more trains turning at Cambridge North from the North during works at Cambridge Station, I believe, so I wouldn't be too surprised if there's some turning at South too (though not sure if there's as much road etc. capacity)...

Cycling directions in the North still ambiguously sign to "station" and point towards "Central" at locations where signs to Cambridge North would make more sense, so I'm not particularly optimistic about a quick switch. Perhaps signs for motorists would be quicker to change, but conversely I...

This leads to the odd quirk that Waterbeach, sandwiched between Cambridge (now North) and Ely, is operated by Great Northern (though only GN call, so it's not unreasonable). Would be interesting to see what happens if and when the station is replaced, as I imagine Greater Anglia will stop the...

This used to hold with the Lichfield stations (from a pure Cross-City line perspective), but I think it's less strong these days with Trent Valley getting a much better West Coast service and the increased housing on that side of the town ("city").

Oddly, there already *is* a Cambridge Stations ticket area (8384 CAMBRIDGE STNS; CAMBRIDGE OR CAMBRIDGE NORTH), though it doesn't have many set fares. It has some AWC fares that were set up when I queried the lack of AWC&Connections advances to Cambridge North, which wasn't the solution I...

Yes, a bizarre side effect of the T1 is that there is now a bus stopping on Milton Road that leaves town after 2000, which is convenient for me (and probably not that many other people). The bonkers early finish of the PR5 (acting as a P&R bus rather than a local bus, even though it fills both...

Poole is well up there, with two platforms for 150,000 or so people. Of course, there are three other stations in the town and it's effectively part of a metro-ish route for the larger conurbation, and Bournemouth station is bigger [though treating this as the station for the BCP conurbation...

one.network suggests a road closure on Horningsea Road at the Fen Ditton crossroads which explains that one I think, but nothing obvious on Huntingdon Road or through Eddington.

I've often wondered if a slightly more aggressive approach of 2tph Norwich-Cambridge-(Stansted?) and 2tph (Midlands)-Peterborough-Cambridge but no Norwich-Liverpool would allow for more even timetabling and better overall capacity at the cost of annoying those going from Norwich north and west...

Is it not just that the Ruislip <-> Old Oak Common tunnel is very long, and is therefore being bored from both ends with the TBMs meeting in the middle (and therefore needing to be lifted out)?

Apologies, Cambridge appears to have returned to 2021 since I made that post! (This was just normal Google Maps, but everything has definitely disappeared again for me) EDIT: some bits of Cambridge are back to pre-2015, so who knows what's going on.

A little tangential, but the satellite imagery of Cambridge on Google Maps is really up-to-date at the moment (within a few months) so there's some good views for getting to grips with the "shape" of the station. Based on the description of the current track layout in #1209 it's pre-Christmas...