Cambridge railway station

Cambridge railway station is the principal station serving the city of Cambridge in eastern England. It is one of two railway stations in the city (the other being Cambridge North approximately 4 kilometres (2 1/2 miles) to the north). It stands at the end of Station Road, off Hills Road, 1mi south-east of the city centre. It is the busiest railway station in the East of England, used by almost 11 million passengers in 2015/16.Several routes start at the station including the West Anglia Main Line to London Liverpool Street, the Fen Line to, the Breckland Line to, services to on the Ipswich to Ely Line, and the Cambridge Line, heading southwards and following an alternate route, to London King's Cross, via. These routes are electrified at 25 kV AC overhead, except for the Ipswich to Ely and Cambridge to Norwich lines, which are diesel-operated. The station has the third-longest platform in England on the national rail network. Ticket barriers are in operation.HistoryUp to 1923In 1822 the first survey for a railway line in the Cambridge area was made and, in the 1820s and 1830s a number of other surveys were undertaken none of which came to fruition although the Northern and Eastern Railway had opened up a line as far as Bishop's Stortford by May 1842. The financial climate in the early 1840s ensured that no further scheme got off the ground, but by 1843, Parliament had passed an act enabling the Northern and Eastern Railway to extend the line to Newport (Essex). The following year, a further act was passed, extending the rights to build a railway through to Cambridge itself. In 1844, the Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by the Eastern Counties Railway, which built the extension.