Cambourne railway station, also called Cambourne North is a proposed new railway station to serve

Cambourne Cambourne is a new settlement and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, in the district of South Cambridgeshire. It lies on the A428 road between Cambridge, 9 miles (14 km) to the east, and St Neots and Bedford to the west. It compris ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

. It would be situated on the section of the proposed

East West Rail East West Rail is a major project to establish a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with Central, Southern and Western England. In particular, it plans to build (or rebuild) a line linking Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester, Milton Keyne ...

OxfordCambridge line.

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In March 2021, the East West Railway Company opened an 'informal consultation' on proposals for the route alignment of this section and thus the location of this station. Two sites are considered, one just south of the village and the other to the north, on the other side of the

A428 The A428 road is a major road in central and eastern England. It runs between the cities of Coventry and Cambridge by way of the county towns of Northampton and Bedford. Together with the A421, (and the A43, M40 and the A34), the eastern se ...

. In May 2023, the northern location was confirmed to be the preferred site of the new station, with the new line then turning south-east to join the Cambridge line via a

flying junction A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "gr ...

Hauxton Hauxton is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England around 5 miles to the south-west of Cambridge. History Hauxton has been occupied for well over two thousand years thanks to its position on the River Cam and a ford near Hauxton Mill that ha ...

and then up the

West Anglia Main Line The West Anglia Main Line is one of the two main lines that operate out of , the other being the Great Eastern Main Line, which operates services to Ipswich and Norwich via Colchester. It runs generally north through Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Har ...

into Cambridge via .

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