News from the East Anglian Branch of Railfuture, Edited by Martin Thorne and Jerry Alderson.
Railfuture News Snippets 367 - 30/10/2023
The taxi rank at Huntingdon station on Monday 9th October 2023.
SAWRUG held a meeting at Cambridge station on Monday 9th October 2023 with a speaker from Network Rail to talk about the Cambridge resignalling scheme (C3R), for which a public inquiry was held in Cambridge earlier in 2023.
On 8th November 2023 from 07:00 until 09:30, Greater Angila management will be on the platforms at Cambridge station for its 'Let's Talk' event. It will be your change to have your say.
The Cambridge University Railway Club has announced a series of speakers for its Michaelmas (autumn) term. On Tuesday 14th November 2023 at 18:00 the talk will be delivered by two representatives from Siemens Mobility — Ruth Humphrey, Head of Business Development and Strategy, and Barney Hotten. It should cover the history of Siemens, current projects and forthcoming innovations. This talk will be held in Teaching Room 2 in the Old Divinity School at St John's College. On Tuesday 21st November 2023 at 18:00 Gareth Dennis, a prolific railway engineer, writer and campaigner, will speak at Queens' College's Angevin Room. This will be followed by Alex Hynes, Managing Director of ScotRail, on Tuesday 28th November 2023 at 18.00.
Greater Anglia (GA) says that 527 people who used its trains without buying a ticket (or without the means to buy a ticket) between January 2023 and March 2023 have been ordered to pay £42,215 in fines and costs during four hearings of Essex Magistrates' Court Single Justice Procedure sessions during August 2023. According to GA, only people who board a train without a ticket and without any intention of buying a ticket are taken to court, with revenue protection teams use their discretion when inspecting tickets. As well as uniformed Revenue Protection Inspectors, Greater Anglia also employs plain-clothes Fraud Investigations Officers who use technology and systems to detect fraudulent activity, specialising in travel fraud, such as delay repay fraud rings.
Greater Anglia (GA) has released
Deutsche Bahn (the German national railway) has signed an agreement to sell the whole of the UK's Arriva Group to infrastructure investment manager I Squared Capital. The transaction is expected to complete in 2024. DB has been looking to sell arriva since around 2019. Cross Country, which is owed by Arriva, operates the service between Bimingham and Stansted Airport via Peterborough, Ely and Cambridge. Its new National Rail Contract (NRC) came into force on 15th October 2023.
STATIONS
Network Rail awards main civils works contract to build the new Cambridge South railway station
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As reported in [Snippets 357], on 21st December 2022 the Secretary of State for Transport granted a Transport & Works Order to Network Rail to construct Cambridge South station. In fact, preparatory work began almost immediately, including creating a works compound on the western side of the tracks. However, although Network Rail had the powers, it took longer to receive confirmation of funding. It has taken until 23rd October 2023 for Network Rail to publicly announce that J Murphy & Sons Ltd (Murphy) has been awarded the main civils works contract to build the new Cambridge South railway station. The £93.4 million contract includes work to begin main construction which will deliver a new two-storey, four-platform station, on each side of the West Anglia Main adjacent to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The station will include everything that one expects these days, such as ticket vending machines, lifts providing step free access to all platforms (Railfuture asked for two lifts on each platform to provide resilience, which Network Rail has agreed to), accessible toilets, baby change facilities, waiting area and space for retail/catering, access for pedestrians and cyclists from both sides of the railway with capacity for 1,000 cycle parking spaces. Modification to roads and crossings are required to facilitate access to the station, and two private level crossing will be closed with provision of alternative access.
Track works are required to support the station and also to mitigate the increase in journey times caused by an additional stop. Together with its other integrated delivery partners, Alstom and South Rail Systems Alliance (Colas Rail UK, constructor, Aecom, designer and Network Rail), Murphy will install two additional track loops to accommodate a four-platform station, smooth the tack at Shepreth branch junction to increase line speed, and extend the headshunt under Hills Road bridge on the southern approach to Cambridge station to ernable parallel movements to/from the island platform there, which will include additional overhead line electrification infrastructure. There will also be a modification of existing signalling equipment. Completion of all work is currently planned for 2025. Network Rail's Cambridge South station project webpage is at www.networkrail.co.uk/cambridge-south-station.
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