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Introduce a half hourly service (if Ely North junction can cope) running one between Liverpool Lime Street and Cambridge and one between Liverpool Lime Street and Norwich. All would run as 5-car trains: Service 1 would run: Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool South Parkway Widnes Warrington...

Totally agree with everything you’ve said. Thought in terms of the academic year it won’t just be the university academic year, I suspect by early September when Long Rd and the Perse are back, we we still a big increase in numbers. The Perse breaks up at the end of June and Long Rd did in mid...

Absolutely - I agree 100% with you. 40% of people don’t own cars and that figure is rising among young people. We need more trains, more trams and light rail, more buses, more active travel, and fewer cars!

I regularly travel from Cambridge to Southampton to get to the port with luggage. Thameslink is invaluable for avoiding the tube with heavy luggage. We travel from Cambridge to London Bridge, London Bridge to Waterloo East and then short walk to London Waterloo. The presence of through core...

Gatwick serves a different market to Heathrow. And the route through the core is hugely popular among those of us from Cambridge and Peterborough and stations on those lines. Thameslink was a game changer and the difference is stark. It makes travel so much easier without having to take large...

They have had these at the Fen Road level crossing just south of Cambridge North station for 5 or 6 years.

The single track section is only between Moreton and Dorchester South. Dorchester South to Upwey is entirely double track where the South West Mainline is effectively shared with the Heart of Wessex line between Bristol and Weymouth.

Some of the routes are slower than 125mph for the most part. Birmingham New Street to Stansted Airport has a max speed of 90-95mph with the exception of a short stretch of 125mph running north of Leicester station. Equally Cardiff to Birmingham tops out at 100mph. Given that I think demand is...

Hard to tell so far. There are several private schools in the area who broke up around the time the station opened and that inevitably reduces trips at this time of year. What I would say is that I think the estimate of 1.8m passenger numbers a year is Conservative - it feels about twice as...

There is this one which now shows the C2C

Interesting they will be running to Tottenham Hale rather than London Liverpool Street to connect with BBC the Victoria line. I don’t know whether they will be making intermediate stops at Harlow Town or Bishop’s Stortford but the latter could be useful especially given how many airline crew and...

And I suspect as passenger numbers rise we will see further decline in retail outlets in Cambridge station as areas like M&S are required for larger circulation areas/gatelines etc.

The plans also show a further third bridge right at the northern extremity of the new station beyond the Carter Bridge. Looking at the plans - that would be the emergency bridge and the existing bridge (extended to serve platform 9), and the new one to which you refer, would be the ones...

Peterborough, Cambridge, Brighton etc are not ‘outer suburban’ - they are long distance regional destinations

The 365 tables were awful - fine for a cup of coffee but useless for working on a laptop or tablet. Working is such a critical part of train travel for so many that I think tables are important. They always fill up first on trains. Agree with you about the lighting - a softer yellow/orange...

Yes but I’m just saying those travelling south from Peterborough, Cambridge, Bedford, and Huntingdon are no less likely to want tables than those travelling north from Brighton!

I agree that tables are important but not sure why specifically they are any more important between London and Brighton than they are between London and Bedford, Cambridge, and Peterborough?! 1782026061 Again - London to Bedford, Cambridge, and Peterborough are all mainlines and longer...

We love them on these routes - it’s not bad at all

While I share your view of reopening Wellingborough to Northampton, the idea that Bletchley to Cambridge via Wellingborough and Peterborough is sufficient to replace the more direct Bedford to Cambridge EWR route seems very suboptimal both in terms of capacity and journey time. EWR is currently...