Vast spending I agree
Cambridge isn’t a commuter town to London. There are of course people who commute to London but it’s too far out to be classed as a commuter town. It’s also not anti-car at all unless one starts from a very motornormative position - there needs to be a major reallocation of road space away from cars to buses and cycles to enable the city to avoid gridlock.
The whole aim of the station is to reduce cars which already have a negative impact on blue lights, rather than induce them into the area.
Whittlesford Parkway is much better placed to attract drivers in the southern hinterland. Foxton could, if expanded perform a similar role for the lines to London King’s Cross/St Pancras.
I would say it was the opposite.
I think there are two reasons: operationally it’s expedient to do so because of timetabling and the increased line speed at Shepreth branch junction negates some of the additional time required to stop there and secondly because of the huge number of people who work there who may want to reach London quickly during the day as well as people commuting from London and Ely. It’s likely to be omg the busiest stations in the region so not stopping trains there would be counter intuitive. And because it’s on a secondary mainline into London rather than one of the primary lines like the ECML, WCML, GWML, there is more potential to stop trains and a greater number of people wanting to get off there than there would be if the trains were coming from as far afield as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Swansea/Penzance as in the cases I referred to.
But if Cambridge South is on your doorstep then walk or cycle there.
I’m surprised you didn’t use Waterbeach which since the early 90s had fast trains to London stopping there.
But in the 1990s I recall that Waterbeach did not have a car park. The current car park, which only has 82 spaces, was built relatively recently.
What, in your view would make it an unbland(is that an actual word) station? Many stations fall into that category unless its the likes of Weymss Bay, Frontage of Glasgow Central or London St Pancras. Try loitering in the mid-evening at places like Sanderstead or Polocksields. Beaulieu Park and Cambridge South look like they are from the same blueprint.
Yeah, Fereday Pollard were the architects for both, Abbey Wood as well. They love some laminated timber do Fereday Pollard.
And to think it was just served by a hotchporch frequency of first generation DMUs.
Was the down train the one that used to have just a couple of coaches that attached to the rest at Lynn?
Great days for a bit of variety if not for the service frequency.
That is a phenomenally useless service, what is the point of a service that you can't even use for commuting?
I think you are getting confused. These were the loco-hauled services calling. All others were DMUs.
Waterbeach did have other trains too, worked by DMUs.
That makes more sense!
The laminated wooden solar canopies are part of the new standard, modular Network Rail station design kit of parts for small- to medium-sized stations, called HUB Station. I think the clock tower part of HUB Station wasn’t used at Cambridge South. Wickford, Portishead, and the new stations in South Wales will get HUB Station too. I personally wouldn’t call it bland.
