Delayed Great British Railways’ first station to open at Cambridge South in June

The delayed Cambridge South station will finally open in late June – and become the first station to be given full Great British Railways branding, the government has announced. The station sits beside the city’s Biomedical Campus, Europe’s largest medical research centre, and will connect it with direct trains to London, Brighton and Stansted airport, as well as up to nine trains an hour to the centre of Cambridge itself. Services will begin calling at Cambridge South on Sunday 28 June, the Department for Transport said, with 1.8 million passengers expected annually. The DfT said the adjacent Biomedical Campus was forecast to contribute £18.2bn to the UK economy by 2050, with employees likely to double to 40,000, boosted in part by the new transport links. The station, the city’s third, was supposed to open in 2025 but was delayed, partly due to the collapse of a contractor responsible for fitting out the electrics. The Great British Railways livery. Photograph: Department for Transport The rail minister, Peter Hendy, said Cambridge South, which was built with £250m of government investment and a small private sector contribution, would “open up access to jobs, homes and world-class facilities for people across the region, boosting the growth of the Biomedical Campus as one of the most important engines of growth in the country”. …