Waterbich railway station is a railway station in the large Waterbich village ( Cambridgeshire , East Anglia region). It is located on the Fen Line , passing from Cambridge Station to King’s Lynn Station, which is electrified, by means of an air contact suspension , with an alternating current of 25 kV [2] .
| Station | |
| Waterbich | |
|---|---|
| Abellio Greater Anglia | |
 Station Waterbic. North Platform | |
| opening date | July 21, 1845 [1] |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Station Code | WBC |
Waterbich Station is 98.19 km (61.01 miles) from London Liverpool Street Station (when driving along the West England mainline ) and 101.86 km (63.29 miles) from London - Kings Cross Station ( when driving on the East Coast Highway ).
Waterbic station works automatically without staff. All station buildings have been demolished, there are only sheds for passengers on each of the two platforms, which are not opposite each other, but on both sides of the automatic railway crossing , equipped with automatic semi - cords . Before electrification, the lines of the platform were located opposite each other [1] .
History
The station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on July 21, 1845 [1] . Prior to its electrification, the state-owned British Rail trains rarely stopped at it, or made stops informally. However, after electrification, almost all trains on the Kings Lynn / Ely - Cambridge / London routes stopped here (according to the current schedule, only three trains do not stop at Waterbich in both directions on weekdays), so the number of passengers using the station increased significantly, as Waterbich was used as its main railway station north of Cambridge in South Cambridgeshire. As a result, the station has a lot of problems with parking railway passenger cars [3] .
Perspective plans
The District Council of Southern Cambridgeshire unveiled plans to build a New City for 8–9 thousand houses on the site of the former Waterbiech barracks. As part of these plans, there is a proposal to move the station to a new place, closer to the New Town, for half a mile to the north [4] .
Attendable destinations and routes
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Pass through the station and on it, respectively, the trains of two operators stop:
- Great Northern serves the route from London Kings Cross station to Kings Lynn station. There are two trains per hour along the Fen Line : one to King’s Lynn station and one shortened to Ily station (except for the early morning hours when trains only go to / from Ili ) [5] . The route is served by Class 365 type electric trains (or, sometimes, Class 317 ). Since May 2017 , these trains have been replaced by Class 387s [6] [7] type trains .
- Greater Anglia serves a station with a limited number of trains. On weekdays in the morning rush hours , four trains pass through the station to London ( Liverpool Street Station ). Two of them follow from Kings-Lynn station, and two from Ili . In the opposite direction in the evening rush hours through Waterbich there are also four trains, of which three follow to Kings-Lynn , and one to Ili [8] . On Saturday and Sunday there is no traffic. The route is serviced by electric trains of types Class 317 and Class 379 [9] .
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Notes
- 2 1 2 3 Butt, RVJ ; - Patrick Stephens Limited, 1995. - P. 242. - ISBN 1-85260-508-1 .
- ↑ Network Rail. East Anglia Route Sectional. - August 2006. - Vol. Module EA. - P. 110 LOR EA1161 Seq008. - ISBN NR30018 / 02.
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- ↑ New Settlements: Waterbeach New Town
- ↑ King's Lynn, Ely, Cambridge, London . Great Northern . The appeal date is December 17, 2017.
- Air New air-conditioned trains coming to the Great Winter next month Welwyn Hatfield Times 26 September 2016
- ↑ First Class 387/1 enters service on Great Northern Rail Technology Magazine 13 October 2016
- ↑ [ https: //www.greateranglia.
- ↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 22 (Network Rail)
Links
- Butt, RVJ . - Patrick Stephens Limited, 1995. - P. 209. - ISBN 1-85260-508-1 .