New station number 8 (in 2026)

Thursday 2nd July 2026 Residents living in Trumpington on the southern fringe of Cambridge have long enjoyed good transport links. Located alongside the southern end of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, with a large Park and Ride car park nearby as well as being close to Cambridge’s huge Biomedical Campus has resulted in extensive travel options. However, from Sunday, they just got a whole lot better still with the much anticipated opening of Cambridge South railway station. As you can see from the above annotated map, Cambridge South has become the city’s third station (Cambridge North opened in May 2017) and its significant £250 million price tag has brought a very nicely designed station building with two entrances/exits, east and west of the railway line, four platforms (including two outer and one island) and 18 trains an hour to a whole range of destinations including Birmingham and Stansted Airport, Ely, King’s Lynn, Gatwick Airport and Brighton, and of course, London’s…