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Fascinating - I'm really surprised by this; many thanks! (Out of interest if the 12 stops is 90-95 mins end-to-end, does this mean that an express service would be 70ish?)

I do understand the rationale, @tspaul26 , which is why I was talking about additional benefits of an express service - it should be an incremental benefit as it will be faster than driving Cambs-Oxford, which the all-station stopper may not be. (Indeed, would the all-stations stopper actually...

Ideally, yes, but lack of a E-N junction at Bletchley doesn't help either. I'd just as soon run the express service (which I think any actual operator would find very attractive) having good MKC connections at Bletchley. If you're dropping 12 station stops, then you're presumably saving 20+ mins...

Many thanks for this insight, @tspaul26 But this point goes to the wider benefits - if the capacity exists, it would seem to be maximising vfm to run an express service linking the two economic powerhouses of the arc, together with WCML and MML connectivity with additional benefits over the...

I read the proposal as 2tph to Rigmont and Stewartby, so the comment is correct. What I don't see is a fast Ox-Cambs service calling at Cambs South, Bedford, Bletchley and Oxford - 12 stops seems to be the "fastest" service. Can the line take another 2 tph calling Cambs South, Bedford...

Excellent - tomorrow is looking like a day with lots of genuine news, which has clearly got nothing to do with the net immigration figures that came out today...

Thanks - very helpful

Sorry - not with it today. Good, look forward to it.

Do we have a release date yet?

Many thanks!

Like us all! Apparently to be released after then local elections....

Is the house itself originally part of Verney Junction Station?

Precisely this.

One would hope that an incoming government would build a true HSR to the Central Belt.

Good to hear - and nice to hear that it isn't all about political presentation.

Perhaps we'll hear something in the Budget in a coupe of weeks? It's an obvious candidate for a Budget annoucement. Or is it too cynical to suggest that this is being delayed until after the May Local Elections?

1. Chiltern Lines from Marylebone (lots of diesels to replace, and lots of housing near the line and the stations. If the Birmingham lines are electrified, then it would be a bit perverse to electrify to High Wycombe or Bicester and then not to fill in the gap.) 2. Once Ely is sorted out...

Very droll. Cambridge is probably right, not least because the alternative 'Cambridge Central' isn't very central.... If the tram thing every happens, 'Cambridge Interchange' could work.

Are the plates for sale?

Keeping the name 'Cambridge' for the current station is sensible, even though I like 'Cambridge General'.