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I was at Infrarail on Tuesday - Nick Gray from Network Rail (he's "principal programme sponsor for the Thameslink Programme") mentioned them briefly. He said the St Pancras installation is a first test of installing the hardware, but they're running an interim version of the software - the...

I'm still waiting for GTR and AGA to link up their systems so I can have a smartcard season between Cambridge and Meldreth. AGA have launched their smartcard product in the last week or so, so it shouldn't be too far away...

Sorry - it was only after I posted that I realised I'd misread what you'd written. I'd thought you'd said there would be no direct Oxford-Bedford service at all, rather than no service via MK.

EWR's site shows a Bedford-Oxford service (calling at Bletchley but not MK) at 1tph, taking 61 minutes. It then shows a second MK-Oxford service, also 1tph, taking 41 minutes Both of these services may end up continuing to Reading.

Not to mention the onward connections to WCML destinations - I can't see it being particularly attractive to change at Bletchley (via a longish walk from high level to low level platforms) to a local train for a one stop journey to MK in order to then connect onwards to an intercity service. The...

Can I just pick up on various people saying that the "quickest way from Cambridge to the Thames Valley/Oxford will always be via London"? I'm not sure this is the case: The "direct" road from Cambridge to Oxford (via St Neots, Bedford and MK) is 85 miles. It's a car journey of at least two...

I live in Cambridge, about ten minutes' walk from the (main) railway station. The area around the station is being massively rebuilt in order to provide a lot of new offices, shops, apartments and two hotels. The redevelopment has also included new arrangements for buses (although you have to...

And to follow up, the EWR study from 2014 points out that (perhaps surprisingly) Cambridge-Northampton is the top-ranked journey of 30-60 minutes, ranked way above Cambridge-Oxford. (see the report here table 5 on page 8)

A little historical diversion I hope will interest people... Back in 1846, the Eastern Counties Railway planned a railway line from Cambridge to Bedford via Shepreth, Biggleswade and Cardington, partly as a ploy to keep their rivals out of the region. They ran out of cash before they could...

I'd assumed that with GTR's contract being a management contract (i.e. the DfT is taking the farebox risk) they were told not to spend a penny more on marketing than necessary!

Hello everyone, I'm new here :-) I commute between Cambridge and Meldreth. You're right about Foxton crossing, it's a source of a great deal of local antipathy. Especially since the branch to Barrington Quarry reopened and we now have freight trains shunting across the crossing at around 5pm...