"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 20:41:45 on Thu, 14 May 2020,
tim... remarked:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 18:56:02 on Thu, 14 May
2020, tim... remarked:

Mine is stubbornly sticking to one every two hours.

Is it a council-supported service?

No, a regular Stagecoach commercial service, and runs 7am-8pm, so it's
viable for commuting if one has to.

once every 2 hours doesn't sound viable for commuting

you either have to arrive at 7:30 or 9:30, or whatever

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 :-)