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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]
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The front of Cambridge Railway Station. Cambridge currently has two railway stations. Cambridge railway station was built in 1845 with a platform designed to take two full-length trains, the third longest in the country. Cambridge North railway station is located in the suburb of Chesterton, close to Cambridge Science Park, and
Milton Road (the A1309 and A1134) is the major arterial road through Chesterton, linking the centre of Cambridge to the southwest with the A14 road to the northeast. Cambridge North railway station, built on the edge of East Chesterton, became operational in May 2017, [12] something that had been campaigned for by numerous local politicians for ...
Cambridge railway station is the principal station serving the city of Cambridge in the east of England. It stands at the end of Station Road , 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the city centre. It is the northern terminus of the West Anglia Main Line , 55 miles 52 chains (89.6 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street , the southern terminus.
The North Billerica–Boston segment was known as the Lexington Branch. [1] In 1888, Willow Street station and Somerville Highlands station (at Cedar Street) were consolidated at Highland Road, retaining the Somerville Highlands name. The Boston and Maine Railroad purchased all of the Boston and Lowell in 1887.
Together with the two-track Digswell Viaduct (Welwyn Viaduct) some ten miles to the south, the flat junction just north of Hitchin was a major bottleneck, [8] as northbound trains diverging from the East Coast Main Line towards Letchworth and thence to Cambridge had to cross one northbound (fast) line and two southbound (fast and slow) lines to ...
In 2024, Cambridge Connect proposed repurposing the proposed metro route as a light railway, known as the Isaac Newton Line. [15] This would connect Haverhill and Linton with the guided busway station at Trumpington, the science park near Cambridge North, Addenbrookes Hospital, and a new station in Cambridge city centre. [16]