Cambridge South station opens after £228m investment

The new Cambridge South station sits at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus near Addenbrooke's Hospital and AstraZeneca's headquarters, about 2.3 km south of Cambridge station, linking the Cambridge Line with the West Anglia Main Line. It has four platforms, 1,000 cycle spaces and only 15 car parking spaces, with an expected 1.8 million passengers a year. Opened on 28 June 2026, it is the first station in the UK to carry the new Great British Railways (GBR) branding. Update (29 Jun 2026): At the opening the Department for Transport put the investment at GBP 250 million (EUR 290 million), which the government decided in June 2023 to fund in full; a further GBP 5 million came from AstraZeneca, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Construction began in January 2023; compared with the original 2025 target, the station was delayed by a signalling renewal project in Cambridgeshire, a timetable change on the East Coast Main Line and the insolvency of a subcontractor. Up to 20 trains are to call at peak times at first, and the direct journey from London takes 45 minutes (LOK Report, 29 Jun 2026).