St Ives – Cambridge Branch Line: Railway To Guided Bus-way
The St. Ives to Cambridge Branch Line in its day was a very busy station. Fruit and flowers in the summer/ autumn would be delivered to the station from the surrounding villages for dispatch to the markets. During the war the railway line was vital for the delivery of personnel and bombs for RAF Oakington. In an age when to own a car was rare the railway line provided a vital transport link for villagers going to either St. Ives of Cambridge. More information will be added to this section in due course – this is just a taster…..
The arrival of the car and road haulage perhaps inevitably sealed the fate of this branch line, but it kept open for a number of extra years by transporting gravel from the nearby gravel works.
After a number of years of abandonment – nature and silence reclaimed this old railway line.
However in 2007 work started on the creation of the Guided Bus-way – at 16 miles the longest one in the world.