Cambridge Station- where do staff park?

[fozzi97]

Can anyone confirm where GA staff (mainline drivers in particular) that work at Cambridge Station park their own vehicles please?

Google says there are designated staff spaces in the main station car park but I can't see any on Google Streetview or satellite images. I notice the GA Cambridge depot car park is shared with Network Rail on the other side of the line and was wondering if they use that car park?

Reason for asking is I could potentially be working for GA soon and would like to know in case parking is difficult. I'm sure GA will tell me in due course (if I'm successful), but I'd like to be as prepared as possible.

 

[Steve Harris]

Looking at Google satellite view it looks like it's at the very top of the station car park, nearest to Mill road Bridge. If you zoom in painted on the tarmac is "no unauthorised parking" (and the bays are numbered). Before all the changes at Cambridge, staff used to park roughly in that area anyway, they just seem to have been pushed a little further north now it's been extended and tarmaced over.

 

[Magdalia]

When Cambridge was resignalled in the early 1980s a new joint signing on point (JSOP) was built at the country end of platform 6, with two loco holding sidings adjacent. Since then staff have parked cars next to the loco holding sidings. About 10 years ago it was fenced off to separate it from the station car park which extends as far as the JSOP and the "elbow" of Devonshire Road.

As far as I'm aware Greater Anglia staff still use the JSOP but that may have changed.