Cambridge to Trumpington/ Addenbrookes Railway

[gallafey]

I prefere Trams & Trans to buses for puplic transport when not using a car, in Leigh one of many towns without a station, there has talked about a (mis)guided bus for years since 1998, I think busways are just big white elephant, if the govermant think is going make people give thair car then they're wrong Leigh has the worst public transport systam building a Busway cost the same as a tramway or railway if they cant find the money for trains & trams then is it they find it stupid things

[Bignadim]

Definately Railway not buses!!! Very least trams

[soundnicetome]

It is purely a cheap and nasty idea,because most of the decisions are made by people who just do not like railways period.In this day and age any proposed route cross country would be doubtful...too many obstructions etc.This country still never learns from experience.Any transport decision only go ahead for one reason PROFIT This has been the excuse for many years,and seen some of our finest routes closed purely on that basis,and not what communities have wanted

[TheScotty9646]

With the missing link to Oxford from Cambridge. Hertfordshire county council are supporting plans for a Rail link from Stevenage to Luton to go through to stations including Bedford. Once in Bedfordshire, trains would go through to stations such as Oxford, Reading and Swindon under the plans. This was reported on the BBC Look East website a couple months ago.

[maplen1]

not one person in Cambridge want a guided busway, complete waste of funds. For the amount of money spent and time used we could have had a railway up and running, link through to East Coast at Huntingdon, Line reopened to Haverhill (def. needs a rail link) and taken a lot of traffic of the A14 (never be upgraded), oh and a freight link through to Alconbury.

[Tudwud]

No doubt a similar "cost benefit analysis" conducted by Marples and then Beeching back in the sixties. When I worked in Cambridge station, one of the most popular tickets requested was to Oxford, not Trumpington!

[NODDINGCAT]

@Tudwud

You could never get a train to Trumpington, it never had a station.

You must have worked at Cambridge station some time ago, I'm surprised you've learnt how to use a computer.

There is talk of reopening the Oxford to Cambridge line. albeit on a different route.

[Tudwud]

@NODDINGCAT

I know there was no station in Trumpington - I was being being metaphorical. I worked in Cambridge in 1991-2 and have had a computer of one sort or another since 1983. I know they are looking at reopening the route but it will be difficult at the Cambridge end but easier from Sandy

[245sillybilly]

what a waste of public money

what would be wrong with re-instating the railway lines, or even trams?

[chloe11987]

shut up u idiot! its safer, cheaper and greener!

[TK42138]

@chloe11987

Greener?

Trains are are more efficient transport because of the larger passenger numbers carried in relation to energy expenditure. A couple of double deck buses smoking up and down the busway are not going to solve Cambridges and the A14's traffic problems or substantially remove car from the roads - especially if we get the 8,000 home Northstowe new town where every household will probably have two cars etc.

[TheScotty9646]

@chloe11987, since i posted my comment a year ago i was centurytv in which i'm now rename my youtube account. So no you have no right to tell me to shut up.

[TheScotty9646]

@chloe11987 / But with a train it a lot quicker than a bus, getting to Oxford you have to take a train down to London Kings Cross and then take the London underground train to Euston station for an connecting train to Oxford or you could take a 3 hour coach trip from Cambridge to Oxford. If a bus breakdown, you are still going to have delays. What if a bus breakdown in the middle of the track, Where are the diverted exit especally when the bus is no where near the main road.

[chloe11987]

wat happens when a trai brakes down = everything stops, with the busway the buses can divert off the track. wat happens when theres a power cut on a train line or a line goes down = everything stops, there will never b a power cut wiv buses. wat happens when a child walks on the track onto a live line = killed, no live lines wiv a busway! and the buses r 100% bio fuel which means the eco friendly!!

[TK42138]

@chloe11987

And guess where a lot of biofuel comes from? From the Palm oil tree that are grown on cleared areas that were once lush rain forest then exported to UK etc. Re-processing used cooking oil will not solve the energy crisis.

[TheScotty9646]

@chloe11987 / You talk about eco friendly and buses being cleaner and safer. But most trains run now a days on electricty and also network rail have started putting up high metal fences to stop kids trace passing on the railways. So what your choice? a four hour trip to Oxford by coach or a journey to Oxford via London by train So how dare you call me an idiot, You have no right.

[centurytv]

Its heart breaking too see that all of the rail line abandon which used to link East to West mainline from Cambridge to Oxford is being taken over by guided buses,

I live just outside of Cambridgeshire in Hertfordshire and i often shop in Cambridge on the odd weekends.

If the government told Dr Beeching to take a Heck in the 60s. I think a lot of people would be please to not travel down to London to catch connect train to Oxford.

What the point in guided buses, bring on train.

[tolgug]

Can't believe this busway would ever have seen the light of day without bags of our tax money being poured into it :(

And because the politicians dare not allow it to fail, it will presumably require big subsidies to keep it going as well.

What a white elephant!

[TortoiseshellKat]

One wonders whether there have been any backhanders paid to prevent the Oxford - Cambridge rail line reopening?

[theroyalshow]

Most of you are retards.The busway is far CHEAPER and more FLEXIBLE then light of heavy rail.That's why it's being built.Something called cost benefit analysis.

[NODDINGCAT]

only a 'retard' would know that!

[trainlover658]

@theroyalshow guided busways are move vurnrable to vandels, and will be able to derail alot more easier, and then, what do you do when theres a tire puncture?

[TK42138]

@trainlover658

I'm guessing the bus driver will have to stop, get out and remove rocks and debris from the track. Since these guided buses are simply road going vehicles I doubt even their commercial grade tyres can withstand riding over a rock or two. And what happens when the cycleway is flooded? I'm guessing cyclists will chance their luck and ride on the busway to bypass the flooded sections.

[TK42138]

@theroyalshow

Cost benefit analysis is why British industry/the U.K in general is in such a state. Too many analysts all relying on mathematical modelling that fails to take in two elements that can screw up any major project...humans and weather. Both these factors is why Cambridgeshires Guided Busway is £45,000,000 over budget and still not operational.

[TK42138]

@theroyalshow

A light railway or tram system would have been cheaper, faster to build and have the extra advantage that cars have to give way to trams once in town. Instead, a slightly adapted bus has to join Cambridge's clogged up road network and slightly less than useless bus-lanes where delivery drivers, or ignorant car drivers still think it's okay to park. Said bus then has to filter in to normal car lane to get round.

[m0ffx]

I think basically the reason for doing the guided busway is EU funding was available for it. Such funding would not have been available for re-opening the railway. :sigh:

[kevj247]

nice for you to make the effort to put this on,personaly its a crying shame riping up railways

[chriscorbyn]

ALLL THE TIME I PUT A LONG COMMENT IN IT WILL NOT WORK SO WHY ARE YOU PUTING THAT BUSSWAY DOWN THERE ITS NOT USFULL AT TALL MAKE IT AS PALCE WHERE YOUNG PPL CAN RIDE THERE MOTOER BIKES AND DO graffiti ON A BIG WALL DOWN THERE IT WILL KEEP US OF THE STREETS.CHRIS

[chriscorbyn]

NOT LIKE THAT NOW

[chriscorbyn]

NOT LIKE THAT NOW THO

[tommyvercetti7]

trains on the guided busway will be able to travel at 60-70mph not 50mph - they travel much faster as they are on tracks. and the Cambridge to trumpington railway was pulled up before we got there, and the line ends at trumpington and in no way effects the main line

[stevedn1]

Oxford-Bedford-Sandy-Cambridge­. A high speed, long distance main line that would drastically cut journey times, yet sacrificed for one silly little piece of busway to Trumpington. The politicians are all rubbish, so are the council officers.

[bwhugul]

The East to West Corridor (from Oxford to Cambridge) will suffer greatly because of the permanently severed rail link. What lunatics would authorise the destruction of a potentially VERY useful piece of infrastructure only to replace it with something that can only be used by a few buses going at a slower speed to trains. Compare 50mph of a bus with 70 or 80 mph for the equivalent train!

[bwhugul]

The producer is right about the problem it will cause for the major east-west corridor.

The Oxford-Cambridge line is vital if unnecessary London rail congestion is to be removed. People have to travel into London to change trains which eats up valuable capacity.

[henapen]

nice work! great music. would be nice to have real trains again

[GRIMLOCK84]

02:00 I USED TO PLAY HERE AS A KID! IVE LIVED IN TRUMPINGTON FOR MORE 20 YEARS! THE KIDS ARE ALL SMOKING AND DRINKING AND THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO USE THIS PATH ARE DOG WALKERS AND THEYLL STILL HAVE PLENTY OF PLACES TO TAKE THEIR DOGS FOR A CRAP!! GO TRAM GO!!!! Incase your unsure Im pro-tram!! gotram!

[NODDINGCAT]

Agreed the Trumpington section stand very little chance of becomming much, so the bus aint that bad I suspect, but it will encourage more housing, and with that will come more cars, so you could still say it's not a good idea.

[foxymanuk]

Mmmmmmmmmmm! Look at all that lovely graffiti and the muddy tracks. What a shame to turn it into something useful!!!

[NODDINGCAT]

Since when has a 'bus' been modern?

I ask you this....

Thanks or watching!

[trekker061212]

Can't wait for the guided bus. As with the St.Ives branch, the land has been redundant for too many years. Move with the times.