Cambridge Island Platform - progress

66720 is on the platform 8 line unloading materials.

Haven't been to Cambridge station for years, and didn't know this was being built. Is the new platform going to be the same length as platforms 1+4 is ? Have services really increased so much that the station needs this extra capacity - or are there other plans to remove the bays?

Thanks for that. Ah yes the planned longer services. Whilst an improvement for many on this line, they'll just take longer to pass through my local station :laugh:

Adding two new 270m bi-directional platforms – numbered 7 and 8

We (on the GN main line) already have 12 coach FCC trains - not that they stop at Biggleswade. I understand that Letchworth will be one of the first to be extended.

Peter

..you would think they could lay more than half a dozen bricks a day.

Letchworth is undergoing the extension works now - though they appear to be painfully slow works despite being worked on during the daytime behind physical barriers. With no delay to work through its proximity to the line, you would think they could lay more than half a dozen bricks a day.
I doubt Baldock will ever get such treatment :(

I don't see the point in Letchworth getting the 12 car upgrade.

What Letchworth needs more than anything else is a 3rd platform - although I don't think there's anywhere to put one? for the 313 reversing moves.

What Letchworth needs more than anything else is a 3rd platform - although I don't think there's anywhere to put one? for the 313 reversing moves.

What Letchworth really needs is more of the evening peak "first-stop Letchworth" services (xx15, xx45 ex KX) that then go on to stop at Baldock. That way I wouldn't have to get off at Letchworth (along with several others) and await the very slow following service. Sorry am I being a bit selfish now :laugh:

I've often wondered if Letchworth had platform loops at one time, I don't think it did but there's something about the way the platform buildings are designed and positioned that gives the impression.

Peter

Sounds like my kinda job. :)

I don't see the point in Letchworth getting the 12 car upgrade. I think it would make more sense for the 12 cars to run KLN, CBG, RYS, SVG, KGX in peak; and KLN, CBG, SVG, STP, and the south off-peak. Serves the major stations along the line and that way every station between CBG and SVG is within a reasonable distance of a big train during rush hour.

In fact, very few 12 cars stop at SVG; most 12-cars run non-stop KGX to PBO or CBG or occasionally stop at SVG, sometimes BIW, HUN, SDY and SNO. And towards CBG occasionally SVG and RYS.

Sounds like my kinda job. :)

I don't see the point in Letchworth getting the 12 car upgrade. I think it would make more sense for the 12 cars to run KLN, CBG, RYS, SVG, KGX in peak; and KLN, CBG, SVG, STP, and the south off-peak. Serves the major stations along the line and that way every station between CBG and SVG is within a reasonable distance of a big train during rush hour.

In fact, very few 12 cars stop at SVG; most 12-cars run non-stop KGX to PBO or CBG or occasionally stop at SVG, sometimes BIW, HUN, SDY and SNO. And towards CBG occasionally SVG and RYS.

Sounds like my kinda job. :)

I don't see the point in Letchworth getting the 12 car upgrade. I think it would make more sense for the 12 cars to run KLN, CBG, RYS, SVG, KGX in peak; and KLN, CBG, SVG, STP, and the south off-peak. Serves the major stations along the line and that way every station between CBG and SVG is within a reasonable distance of a big train during rush hour.

In fact, very few 12 cars stop at SVG; most 12-cars run non-stop KGX to PBO or CBG or occasionally stop at SVG, sometimes BIW, HUN, SDY and SNO. And towards CBG occasionally SVG and RYS.

I believe the OH north of Cambridge (or maybe it's Ely) can't support 12 (or even 8?) coach trains