London Banter - View Single Post - So what's going wrong with the Jubilee line?

[email protected] · April 26th 11, 09:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d ()
wrote:

True, but a rail link from huntingdon to cambridge via ST Ives may well
have done , coupled with the fact that it would have provided a useful
diversion route for the ECML.

This is impossibly dreamy nonsense I'm afraid.

The Cast.Iron scheme was a good one for Cambridge to St Ives but any idea
of a through route to the ECML via Huntingdon doesn't take account the
railway history of the area. St Ives was on a through route until the late
1960s but it was from Cambridge to March. The line from St Ives to
Huntingdon (and on to Kettering) was a very lightly engineered single
track with no proper connection at Huntingdon which in any case faced
South. It is somewhat obstructed by the A14 too.

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Colin Rosenstiel