Important facts about the station (kindly provided by Greater Anglia).
The station building
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
- 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
- 15 staff - 11 new recruits
- Train dispatchers on each platform and welcome host in foyer to help customers buy tickets and with enquiries
- 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
- 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
- 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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