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North Cambridgeshire’s Hereward Line hosts Poetry Train celebrating Railway 200 and the Fens

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December 21, 2025
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The Hereward Community Rail Partnership (HCRP) has held what Greater Anglia describes as a “unique cultural event” involving poetry on a train.

Freight on the agenda for East of England

Simon Walton
December 1, 2025
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England’s eastern counties need a viable mixed traffic railway to foster economic growth. That was the message from Transport East’s “Future of Rail” day conference…

Changes to Greater Anglia services from 14th December

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November 15, 2025
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Greater Anglia has announced changes to its services when its new timetable starts on Sunday, 14th December.

CrossCountry to run full timetable as RMT strikes called off

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October 30, 2025
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CrossCountry says that they will run a normal timetable this Saturday, 1st November, following the suspension of planned RMT strike action. The train operator says…

Cambridgeshire council members calls on government to ‘urgently rethink’ funding for railway junciton

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October 1, 2025
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Ely North Junction is widely recognised as a bottleneck in the area for both freight and passenger trains, and East Cambridgeshire District Council members are…

Trail bus service connects Wetland Centre with Greater Anglia trains

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September 7, 2025
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Thanks to a grant from Greater Anglia’s Customer and Community Improvement Fund, passengers can now access the Welney Wetland Centre.

Track renewal work to disrupt Fen Line trains in October and November

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September 5, 2025
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Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is advising passengers who plan to travel through parts of north Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to check their journeys as Network Rail will be carrying out work in the Ely area from October to mid-November.

Train services to be disrupted in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk

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September 4, 2025
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From October to mid-November, train services through parts of north Cambridgeshire and Norfolk will be liable to disruption.

Felixstowe may soon change hands

Simon Walton
July 28, 2025
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Felixstowe, the rail freight terminal with a port attached, may soon have new owners. The UK’s busiest intermodal rail freight hub – with a convenient…

£1.5m paint project completed at Greater Anglia railway stations

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June 15, 2025
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A £1.5m project to paint 35 railway stations on the Anglia network has been completed by Greater Anglia. The train operator says that the project…