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I think the 1990s redevelopment was sympathetic and can find nothing in the new proposals to convince me that this will be an improvement. I'd almost prefer if they were going to completely remove the trainshed and restore it somewhere else - it's clearly in the way of what the developers would...

Excellent progress!

Any destination north of Bletchley?

Or avoid sending non-London frieght down the GEML at all....

I'm an Ipswich/Manningtree - LST commuter, and the Stadlers are fantastic, much better IMO than the Mk 3s (especially at the end). Compared with GWR IETs, there's no contest, though I've not been on another flavour of IET, it should be said. The StanEx units minus tables are always a bit of a...

I'm with Camflyer - a proper tram system would be great for Cambridge, esp. if it had a tunnelled central section as I believe has been proposed in 2018 before the CAM nonsense came about?

Fascinating - though it begs the question 'how can a DCO be granted if it isn't clear what it's actually authorising?' - or is there a further stage of permissions after the DCO?

And until then, presumably you could run Felixstowe - Cardiff containers via Ely and then onto EWR. Inconvenient, but saving GEML and NLR paths must be valuable.

It was! And of course Atkinson was at Oxford and Fry at Cambridge.....

Kerry's Yard? I'm a bit confused - there wouldn't be an impact if the EWR platforms were on the old alignment where the busway is.

Ipswich, actually - so I'm interested in understanding how EWR got to a position that favours my interests! I do, however, have friends who live SW of Cambs - so this is very helpful in talking to them about this. 1685270268 With crayons out, I would have put the railway in a cut-and-cover...

Fair enough - but it would remove a noisy bunch of opponents which itself is no bad thing (think: Justine Greening's decision to add much more tunnelling to HS2). What would be required at Cambridge South to allow the reversals to take place there?

Marginal benefits all add up! For the amount of money we're talking about here, each and every marginal benefit will improve the business case and should be welcomed with open arms.

Staff at the biomedical campus will also live east of Cambs, so if you were to come in from the north and reverse all services at Cambs South, then you'd still achieve the connectivity without the dogleg, great wall of Cambridgeshire and the grade separated junction onto the Royston line. The...

I get this, but if the infrastructure is there for 2 tph express service between Oxford and Cambridge, it would be obtuse not to use it.

That's true, but presumably some thought has gone into the impact of HS2; if the principal Anglo-Scottish services are HS2 focussed, then having first stop out of KX as Tempsford on the fasts for the remaining ECML services may be quite attractive, I'd have thought.

That's fair enough - and living in Ipswich I'm obviously biased in the other direction!

If Stansted were expanded to two tunnels, would it make a better destination than Cambridge North?

Driving will be quicker than today (and more reliable) when the Caxton Gibbet - Black Cat dualling and Black Cat interchange work is done, presumably ahead of the EWR opening. Moreover, the competitiveness will depend on your starting point and destination in Oxford and Cambridge are, given how...