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

Roland Perry · April 27th 11, 05:33 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 12:10:40
on Wed, 27 Apr 2011, remarked:

Where was the official end of the line in 2003? The rails were
lifted beyond Fen Drayton, and the St Ives bypass was built on top
of the St Ives station site (apparently in 1980), the bypass uses
the old trackbed towards March.

The sand trains ran to Fen Drayton until the extraction company was
allowed to build a road across the fields to the A14.

According to the "disused stations" site:

"service as far as Fen Drayton was retained until 1992 because
of a long term contract with the Amalgamated Road Stone
Corporation of St. Ives for aggregates. In the 1970's, the train
made a return trip there every work day though this had declined
to once a week by the late 1980's."

2003 was 11 years later.
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Roland Perry