Cambridge South

A new station opened yesterday, possibly the most significant since Crossrail. It's CAMBRIDGE SOUTH and I have taken far too many photos of it. [42 photos] (I actually took 255 but managed to narrow it down) The station's two miles south of Cambridge city centre, a location formerly best reached by bike or guided busway. It serves the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, a cluster of scientific excellence, and also the lucky suburb of Trumpington. It balances out the new station at Cambridge North which opened in 2017, bringing much better connectivity to the city. It's in a really good place network-wise so is served by as many as four different train companies (Greater Anglia, Great Northern, Thameslink and Cross Country). It gets up to 20 trains an hour whereas previously they all sped straight through. It's a few months late because a contractor went bust. And it's also the very first station to be specifically Great-British-Railways-branded, not that I could entirely tell. What we have…