| Cambridge South | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Cambridge Biomedical Campus |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.1744°N 0.131°W |
| Platforms: | 4 (planned) |
| Years1: | 2023 |
| Events1: | Construction began |
| Years2: | 2025 |
| Events2: | Planned opening |
Cambridge South railway station is a railway station that is under construction.[1] Located in southern Cambridge, it is planned to serve the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and the adjacent suburb of Trumpington. The station will be on the Cambridge line and the West Anglia Main Line, and is scheduled to open in 2025.
A new station was proposed in 2017.[2] In August 2017, the Transport Secretary backed plans for a new station as part of the East West Rail plan,[3] [4] with a possible opening date of 2021,[5] [6] that could also include a light rail link.[7] An unsuccessful application was made to the New Stations Fund 2 in 2017,[8] but £5million was allocated to the project in the November 2017 Budget Speech.[9]
Funding for Cambridge South station was announced in the budget of March 2020.[10] Three options for its location near Addenbrooke's Hospital were identified between the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway bridge on Cambridge Biomedical Campus to the north and the Addenbrooke’s Road bridge to the south.[11] Network Rail stated that its preferred location for the station was at a site adjacent to the Biomedical Campus and the Guided Busway crossing[12] and submitted a Transport and Works Act Order application in June 2021 for a station on this site.[13]
In September 2022, the government announced Cambridge South as one of the "138 major infrastructure projects that the Government aims to fast-track, although "inclusion in the list [does] not guarantee funding, planning consent or approval at this stage".[14]
In December 2022, the station was given a Transport and Works Act Order approval, which authorised construction of the station and track laying. The station is expected to be fully accessible by people with disabilities and to have 1,000 cycle spaces. Elsewhere but as part of the works, improvements will also made to Shepreth Branch Junction and a new crossover installed at Hills Road.[15]
In October 2023, Network Rail awarded a contract for construction of the station. It is to have four platforms and anticipates 1.8 million passengers per year.[16]
, the construction of a second pair of tracks has started. New overhead catenary poles are in place and the original tracks have been shifted a few metres to the side to make way for the platforms.
See main article: East West Rail. East West Rail is a major project to build (or rebuild) a line between and Cambridge. In its 2023 Bedford–Cambridge preferred route announcement, the East West Rail Company proposes that its new alignment into Cambridge will do so via Cambridge South.[17]