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.

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!

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.

The train station at Shelford is very small. There is only an automatic ticket machine so do not…read moreexpect to get served by a person! The layout is not great as the only way to cross the tracks so if there is a train coming and you are on the wrong platform you had better hope it is not yours as you will have to watch the train pull into the station and stand a tht ecrossing gates like a muppet watching the train pull off without you! However, it is a very small village station, so i suppose this cant be helped. If you're hungry and do miss your train there is an Indian restaurant right next to the station, and a pub is within sight.

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.

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