Work commences on Cambridge’s new £200m rail station
Spades are in the ground to deliver a new, 4-platform, fully accessible station at Cambridge Biomedical Campus – Europe’s largest centre of medical research and health science.
The project forms part of the East-West Rail route, which would connect Oxford and Cambridge and unlock up to £103bn of economic growth.
It will support 300 construction jobs and is due for completion by 2025.
The station is expected welcome 1.8 million passengers a year, offering quick, easy and accessible links.
It also proposes to create 27,000 jobs and 4,000 new homes by 2031.
The £200m project backs the government’s ambition for the UK to become a science superpower by 2030.
Rail Minister Huw Merriman said: “This brand-new station will not only benefit local passengers but deliver a major boost to the entire city, improving connectivity to a world-leading academic hub while unlocking local business and growth opportunities across the region.”
Katie Frost, Network Rail’s route director for Anglia, said: “It’s an exciting time for the railway in Cambridgeshire with a green light to deliver a new station that will serve the vitally important and growing biomedical campus.
“Rail continues to be an environmentally sustainable form of transport and I know the minister’s announcement will be welcomed by the customers and communities we serve across Cambridgeshire and beyond.”
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