Rail User Group

The Rail User Group’s AGM and meeting will be held in Shepreth Village Hall on Tuesday 14th March 2017 , with tea and coffee at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. AGM Agenda: 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of previous meeting for approval 3. Matters Arising 4. Chairman’s Report 5. Treasurer’s Report 6. Election of

On first glance, Network Rail’s proposal many months ago to close the Barrington Rd level crossing gate appeared to be a mistake: surely whoever was drawing up the multiple level crossing closures programme would come to their senses and realize that this was not a ‘minor rural level crossing’ but a key component of a

Meeting of the Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton Rail User Group on 14th December 2016, 7 for 7:30pm – 9:00pm 27 Elin Way, Meldreth, SG8 6LT (Sheltered Housing Community Room) Agenda 1. Welcome and Apologies 2. Minutes of the previous meeting 3. Train services issues  Meldreth Station issues  Shepreth Station issues  Foxton Station

GTR are consulting on the proposed timetable for the in 2018 following completion of the Thameslink Programme. The service to Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton will be half hourly all day and link Cambridge through central London including London Bridge and continue to Maidstone in Kent. Details here: www.thameslinkrailway.com/your-journey/timetable-consultation

Network Rail are consulting about closing a number of rail crossings in East Anglia including the pedestrian crossing from Barrington Road a short distance to the west of Foxton crossing, and the footpath crossing in the Royston direction from Meldreth station www.networkrail.co.uk/anglialevelcrossings/ Cambridgeshire Crossings are detailed in this document: www.networkrail.co.uk/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=30064800192 The Barrington Road crossing proposal

Meeting of the Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton Rail User Group on 20 September 2016, 7 for 7:30pm – 9:00pm Melbourn Village College, The Moor, Melbourn SG8 6EF Agenda (Short-cut from Meldreth Station for those on foot: walk across the field from the London platform toward Melbourn. Just past the shop ‘Esse’, cut through up the

Railfuture East Anglia have carried out an audit of Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton stations to enable the Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Community Rail Partnership to have a clearer understanding of: how the stations cope with existing traffic levels how the stations may cope with considerably more traffic in the future how more users can be attracted to the

The Rail User Group’s AGM will be held in Shepreth Village Hall on Tuesday 15th March 2016 , with tea and coffee at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.  Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railway will both be in attendance to answer questions from the public. This will be followed by a meeting of the Rail

Please join us at Meldreth Station on 23rd March, 2pm, for a garden tidy up.  We will have tea and biscuits and lots of gardening tools, but do bring your gardening gloves, and a pair of secateurs.

Rail passengers at Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton can now use Great Northern’s new smartcard ticketing technology ‘the key’ for season ticket journeys to and from London and stations in between. We have now been able to spread its availability this further north, beyond Royston, which was the previous limit of the scheme, to Foxton station.