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[email protected] · June 16th 16, 02:57 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 10:49:35 on Thu, 16 Jun
2016, d remarked:

FWIW, Stansted was built as the overflow airport for London. Apparently
that was future proofing air travel. Either they lied or they were
stupid, take your pick.

It's not an airport that's popular with the customers. It's too far
away, with poor public transport, and on the wrong side of London.
That's why an estuary airport is an even worse idea.

It has a high speed train service from London

It's a rather slow speed service actually.

It's not that bad.

and Cambridge

And only 1tph to the north (plus very recently a few more trains in
the middle of the day when no-one really needs them). I think at one
time Central Trains even suspended the Cambridge-Stansted service for
a few years.

It's slowly improving from that description actually. Hourly arrivals at
Stansted now from 10:00 to 16:00 and 22:00. But the main problem from
Cambridge is trains not early or late enough.

and is right next door to the M11.

That is what has saved its bacon.

I don't call that poor transport links.

Very handy for Cambridge. Shame about the limited range of flight
destinations though.

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Colin Rosenstiel