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Cambridge North Station Opens

25/5/2017

 
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Important facts about the station (kindly provided by Greater Anglia).

The station building
  • The station cost £50 million and is almost 5,000 square feet.
  • There are three platforms, all long enough for 12-carriage trains:
    • Platform 1 - London bound (coming from Ely/Norwich)
    • Platform 2 - Ely/Norwich (coming from Kings Cross/Liverpool St)
    • Platform 3 (bay platform) - London bound (coming from Liverpool St) as trains from London terminate here and turn back around towards London.
  • The design incorporates Cambridge’s hi-tech heritage, with cladding using Game of Life pattern by Cambridge mathematician John Conway
  • Solar panels on the cycle park supply 10% of all station power
  • It was built by Network Rail and designed by Cambridgeshire County Council
  • Three toilets – free to use
  • Two retail units – a coffee shop and a shop to be let out as concessions, opening shortly
Trains and passengers
  • Expecting 3,000 passenger journeys a day
    • 13% of customers currently using Cambridge station expected to transfer to Cambridge North
    • We expect the split between outward and inward commuters will initially be 75-25
    • As surrounding business parks and employment areas expand, we expect numbers of inward commuters to grow
  • Station’s catchment area includes Chesterton and northern part of Cambridge, plus villages along the busway towards St Ives.
  • Good links with A10 and A14, will draw customers in from Waterbeach, Newmarket, Burwell, the Swaffhams, Stretham, Wilburton and Haddenham.
  • We also expect a widening of the catchment area to include Fen Ditton and Barnwell, once the Chisholm Trail bridge across the river is built.
  • Four Greater Anglia trains an hour (one in each direction of Norwich-Cambridge and  Cambridge North to London)
  • Four Great Northern trains an hour including two per hour to London Kings Cross (stopping train starting at Cambridge North and new fast Ely to Kings Cross service)
  • Monday – Friday The first Greater Anglia service to depart Cambridge North for Liverpool Street will be the 06:04, arriving 07:25. The last Greater Anglia service from Liverpool Street to Cambridge North will be the 22:28, arriving 23:57
 Staff
  • 15 staff  - 11 new recruits
  • Train dispatchers on each platform and welcome host in foyer to help customers buy tickets and with enquiries
 Tickets and fares
  • Cambridge season ticket holders can use their season tickets at Cambridge North
  • Cambridge North to London Liverpool Street advance single from £7
  • Cambridge North to Norwich off-peak day return £17.70
  • Three ticket machines, but we will install more if necessary (No ticket office)
  • Ticket machines will ultimately have latest software so people can buy tickets 28 days in advance, buy tickets for any journey, renew season tickets
Transport links
  • 1,000 cycle park spaces and cycle gutters on stairs, can be expanded for up to 2,000 bikes in the future
  • Connects with local cycle routes
  • 450 car park spaces – over 12,000 square metres - size of two football pitches – 600,000 paving slabs
  • Car park - £5 all day, £3 on Saturdays & Sundays for first three months, rising to £8 peak/£5 off peak
  • Car park designed so that extension through decking is possible
  • Car park managed by NCP
  • Car park customers can only pay for car park by phone
  • Taxi rank – and permits issued for hackney cabs
  • Connects to guided busway  and local buses:
    • Citi 2
    • Route N to Longstanton park and ride, Cambridge city centre and St Ives park and ride
    • Route D between Huntingdon and Cambridge city centre
    • Route A – Sundays only – between Trumpington park and ride and St Ives, and some outlying villages such as Somersham and Bluntisham
Accessibility
  • Disabled access to all platforms
  • Level access into ticket hall and lifts from there to footbridge and platforms
  • Fully staffed – staff available to help customers with special needs, although to make sure we meet all needs we ask those customers to contact our helpline with 24 hours’ notice of travel.
  • Disabled toilet but no adult changing room as these are only available at the largest stations such as London Liverpool Street.

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