"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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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.

how can a line a couple of miles long be so limited?

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

run a new service Ely, Soham to Cambridge in the odd hours

Yes I know it's not going to be economical, but that doesn't stop a campaign
happening

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

There is (was) a passing place at Dullingham

tim