Government announces £200m funding for Cambridge rail station
They've committed to delivering a new train station in South Cambridge by 2025
The government has announced £200 million in funding to deliver a new train station in South Cambridge by 2025.
It will provide quicker and easier access to the city’s Biomedical Campus - Europe’s largest centre of medical research and health science.
The new station will support 300 new construction jobs and forms part of the proposed East West Rail route which aims to unlock £103bn of economic growth.
The new station will support 300 new construction jobs
It will be a four-platform, fully accessible station at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and bring together world-leading academics.
It's part of the Government's ambitions for the UK to become a science superpower by 2030.
It will also support rapid growth in the area which is expected to welcome 27,000 jobs and 4,000 new homes by 2031.
Kristin-Anne Rutter, Executive Director at Cambridge Biomedical Campus Ltd said: "Currently, there are around five times as many visits to the site as there are car parking spaces.
"We have to find ways of making it easier for the thousands of staff, NHS patients and visitors arriving daily to get here without needing to use a car."
Katie Frost, Network Rail's route director for East Anglia, added: "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."