In message , at 14:49:09 on Fri, 15 May
2020, tim... remarked:
Someone needs to tell those promoting the Soham station reopening
(it's a 0.5tph line).

but it's not exactly on a direct line to anywhere most people will
want to travel for work

surely it's more a leisure/shopping travel station?

It's being mainly promoted as a way of people from Soham being able
to easier commute to work. Implied Cambridge/Newmarket, although the
main promoter lives in Soham and works in Ely.

For leisure/shopping, the hourly bus (Cambridge, Newmarket, Soham,
Ely) is probably better.

I can't work out how they expect people to get to Cambridge, is
either a change of trains at Ely, or at Kennett (east of Newmarket)?
Of course, you have to double-back at the latter to get to Newmarket
at all.

The change at Ely qualifies for you earlier scepticism about
granularlity, with the morning trains arriving from Soham direction
at either 7am (too early) or 9am (too late).

Anyway, they've got the funds now to do a proper feasibility study,
so we'll see what that says.

once they get the station open they can campaign for the Fordham curve
(I think it is called) to reopen :-)

But that's not going to help if the line *through* Soham is limited to
0.5 passenger train paths an hour.

Unless you want to swing the Peterborough-Ipswich service to being
Peterborough-[Ely]-Cambridge and make all the Ipswich bound pax change
at Newmarket.

That's also assuming the single line from Newmarket to Cambridge could
accommodate the doubling of the trains.
--
Roland Perry