picture: GBR Anglia

Cambridge South station will be officially opened today, after trains began calling yesterday. The project is the university city’s third station, after Cambridge North was opened nine years ago.

That station is now handling 1.5 million passengers a year, and Cambridge South is being served by up to 20 trains an hour in the peaks.  A fourth station, at Cambridge East, is also being proposed by the East West Rail Co.

Cambridge South provides a link to the city’s Biomedical Campus, which includes scientific establishments, NHS hospitals and business centres.

It should have opened last year but the project was delayed twice, once by a contractor’s bankruptcy.

The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Paul Bristow described the opening as a ‘landmark moment’.

He continued: ‘Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority provided funding to bring Cambridge South forward, years ahead of East West Rail, so that workers and patients can start benefiting now, rather than in years to come.

‘The Cambridge Biomedical Campus is set to grow substantially and this new station will support that development, attract new investment, and open up opportunities for good jobs for more people.’

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