I started several rail trips here. the station is clean and easy to use. There is a Tesco across…read morethe parking lot. limited refreshments in the train station itself

One of the worst stations to get stranded in ever!…read more Despite the very pretty city of Ely itself, the station is situated on a rather bleak patch of ground across several very busy traffic lanes, and the bus services to anywhere else are (in my unfortunate experience) sparse and badly signed. On finding myself at Ely station I couldn't make head nor tail of the bus timetable and sat waiting for a bus that didn't arrive for the best part of an hour. (When I jumped on the first bus that came along in sheer desparation, the driver was as helpful as could be, I should add). That being said, it probably isn't the fault of the station itself, per se. Although it's location feels really 'out in the sticks' despite the fact that's it's perfectly possibly to walk into town from there. It just needs better links, and better information outlets. If I'd landed there are night it would not have been fun!

Medium sized local train station with a few train platforms. Located about a 10 min drive from the…read moreuniversity section of town, it's an 1 hour 10ish minutes commute from London about £40 off peak round trip booked a couple weeks in advance, (prices may be higher or lower based on when you book, and peak vs non-peak transit times). In the station tickets are available for purchase at machines or ticket windows, if you haven't purchased online in advance. There are bathrooms, waiting areas and a small M&S express store inside the station, most of the platforms are covered and there are plenty of signs indicating platform numbers and arriving trains. Generally speaking station looked pretty clean. Outside the station there are bike racks and also temporary standing space for cars waiting for passenger pick up though long term parking I believe is a bit of a walk. Also local buses have stops right down the street (mostly walking towards the left as you exit the station), and they have general routes on posted signs and arrival times (posted live on electric signs). For more details on more local stops and fare amounts (vary by bus line and route), best to do some Google research prior to getting on.

Cambridge, wow. I expected more. Other than terminating and originating on a couple of platforms,…read morethis station looks just like every other mid-country station. Yes, there is an AMT (two, actually) and a waiting room, there is some parking too. Otherwise, ho-hum. There are staffed ticket booths and a ticket barricade, but not nearly enough departure boards.

A small station on the line to Cambridge…read more There's a little car park specifically for the railway with pay and display as well as a larger area of waste ground. The station is largely desolate late at night and there are even some bats about that I've seen. The platforms are open and have smaller trains transporting people. There is a self service ticket machine available to use and a vending machine for snack foods.

I've visited Bury station many times over the last 15 years, first to escape the town at all…read moreavailable opportunities in my teens and more recently to travel back to visit my family who still live nearby. Imagine the relief my friends and I felt as we hopped aboard the train to run away to Cambridge for the day to walk the city streets unencumbered by parents. As we grew a little older London was allowed too, and the journeys were filled with excited chatter about the adventures we'd have when we got there. I look back fondly on those weekend day trips, the promise the station held and the fun I had leaving it. My first band even had a photo shoot there! But enough nostalgia - all the casual traveller needs to know is there are two platforms, a waiting room and toilets on one of the platforms (the ladies is a really long, thin, bizarre single cubicle). There's even a proper ticket machine these days - a big development! What else? The cash machine at the front of the building charges you £1.75 to withdraw cash (booo!), the pub across the road does brilliant food and there are usually cabs at the front of the station but the town centre is only 15 minutes walk away and there are buses too. The trains and buses don't run very late though, you're in a countryside market town now.

While I've been to some small stations before (like Noli in Italy) Kinds Lynn isnt the tiniest but…read moreit is quite compact. It also has exactly one business a bodega/cafe type thing. The workers are quite friendly and I was greeted many times despite such a small space/ It's the closest thing to my friends in Norfolk from London so I took the trek from St Pancras through Cambridge here. The only drawback is the quirky characters out front, reminiscent of the riff raff of the US 7 Eleven patrons (yes that's a specific inside baseball type reference). There's also a pub across the street if you have a wait as told to me by many of the cab drivers....quaint place and my gateway to Norfolk

Harpenden is desirable for being a nice area, with a great regular train connection to London…read more A nice place to live, but no special sites which make it worth visiting purely for tourist purposes, although surrounding countryside is adequate for country walks.

Diss Train Station is operated by National Express East Anglia, formerly One Railway…read more It offer mainline services to London and Norwich. It take approximately 1hr 45 to reach London Liverpool Street. The station has a waiting room on each platform which are open from 05:45-20:00 Monday-Saturday with a later opening time on Sunday, There are self service ticket machines located by the bike shed on platform 1 and by the waiting room on platform 2. The second is covered so best used in poor weather. To cross the platforms customers must take the foot bridge over or in special circumstances such as the eldery or disabled my be escorted over a barrow crossing which exits in to the NCP managed car park.

It's an adequate train station. Not interesting, but it does what a train station should do…read more The good: parking is pretty cheap! And there's a small shop with anything you need for your journey. It's the last stop on the line for the Network Railcard, too. Peterborough station doesn't offer that, so we drive the extra distance to Huntingdon for the railcard benefit and the cheaper parking. The bad: I've been here on a weekday and have been unable to find a parking spot, so, be warned. It's best to park on the opposite side of the station from the main ticket hall (platform 2), where fewer people park so you're more likely to find a spot. The entrance is somewhat hard to find unless you know where it is. Also, the ticket window seems to have odd hours. We were there at 4 or 5pm on a weekday and it was closed, which I thought was strange.

The station is nice enough and has the wheel chair access, plenty of parking and all the other have…read moreto haves that most people are concerned about. However the coffee shop there has no competition, so they seem to have become complacent. They nice enough people but their coffee and tea is mediocre at best.