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The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is a guided busway and Bus rapid transit that connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in Cambridgeshire, England. It has the longest guided busway in the world, [1] [2] surpassing the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia. [3] [4] [5] Two guided sections make up 16 miles (25 km) of the route.
A guided bus entering the concrete busway track. Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is the world's longest guided busway and passes through Cambridge. [3] The designated route runs on normal road from Huntingdon to St Ives, then via a bus-only guided section along the former Cambridge-St Ives railway south-east into Cambridge, where it rejoins the road at either Milton Road or Histon Road and then ...
1 mile (2.3 km) of guided busway [8] A641 Manchester Road, opened October 2001. Crawley, West Sussex: Crawley Fastway: Metrobus: A 15 miles (24 km) two-route system with segregated lanes and 1 mile (1.5 km) of guided busway. Southgate Avenue opened August 2003 and Fastway opened December 2004. Gateshead, Tyne & Wear: Centrelink Go North East
Two Stagecoach East single-deck buses operating on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway in August 2023. Stagecoach East are one of the two bus companies operating services on the 16 mi (26 km) Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, the longest guided busway in the world, with the other operator being Transit Systems subsidiary Whippet Coaches. [18]
In addition to services C and U, in February 2019, Whippet launched a service P (for Pedigree), using the B7RLEs which previously operated on the C, between Cambridge City Centre and Addenbrooke's via the Guided Busway, thus duplicating Stagecoach's A and D services on this section. Service P lasted six months before being withdrawn in August 2019.
1 mile (2 km) of guided busway and a further 0.6 miles (1 km) of unguided bus lanes on Manchester Road to the city centre.----No [1] Bristol: MetroBus: The bus rapid transit network which is a section of guided busway in Ashton Gate and a bus-only exit and bridge on the M32 motorway: 29 May 2018: 5-50 km (31 mi) No [1] Cambridgeshire: Guided Busway
The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway between Cambridge and St Ives, at 25 kilometres (16 miles), is the world's longest guided busway. [11] Between 2004 and 2008, a 1-mile (1.5 km) section of guided busway was in operation between Stenhouse and Broomhouse in the west of Edinburgh.The route was later converted for use by Edinburgh trams. [12] [13]
Chesterton railway station was a brief predecessor to Cambridge North, opening on 19 January 1850 [5] and closing just ten months later in October 1850. [6] Located 200 meters south of the current station, it served as a junction on the Eastern Counties Railway, but was ultimately unsuccessful due to its remote location at the time. [7]