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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.
This is a route-map template for the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, a guided bus system in the United Kingdom.. For a key to symbols, see {{bus route legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Description: A Cambridge-bound bus approaching the Longstanton stop. Note the diagonal pits in the roadway designed to prevent unauthorised use of the busway. ICBM: 52.291993164558, 0.053523613782334; Location: (about 1 km from) near to Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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]
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]
Originally called WEBS, the West Edinburgh Bus Scheme, a group of bus priority improvements that included a 1 mile (1.5 km) section of guided busway. Stenhouse - Broomhouse, opened in December 2004, designed to be used for Line 2 of the Edinburgh Tram Network. [19] In January 2009 it closed to enable conversion to tramway.
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It served the villages of Longstanton and Willingham (being roughly midway between them), until closure in October 1970. [1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann. The railway line through Long Stanton remained open for freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, until 1992.