UK: Cambridge South station recorded more than 110,000 journeys in its first month, showing strong early use of the £250 million rail gateway serving the city’s Biomedical Campus.

Cambridge South station sign beside the Biomedical Campus
Cambridge South wayfinding sign beside the Biomedical Campus on opening day. Photo: KylieTastic / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Cambridge South passes its first passenger milestone

Network Rail reported the total on 29 July, one month after passenger services began calling at the station on 28 June 2026. Greater Anglia, Great Northern, Thameslink and CrossCountry all serve the new stop.

Cambridge South is the first fully Great British Railways-branded station. It brings rail infrastructure and passenger services together under the nationalised GBR Anglia organisation, while giving workers, patients and visitors another way to reach the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Jamie Burles, managing director for GBR Anglia, said the first-month figure showed that demand for the new connection already existed. The station’s ticket gates recorded more than 110,000 journeys during the period.

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£250 million station shortens key journeys

The Department for Transport expects Cambridge South to handle around 1.8 million passengers annually. The timetable provides up to nine trains an hour towards central Cambridge and as many as 20 services during peak periods.

Direct connections include London, Birmingham and Stansted Airport, as well as access to international rail services through St Pancras. Before the station opened, a trip from London King’s Cross to the Biomedical Campus required a train, bus and walk and took more than an hour; the journey can now be made on one direct train in 45 minutes.

The station directly serves a campus with more than 20,000 staff and around 40,000 daily visitors. Its four platforms therefore provide a new arrival point for commuters, hospital patients, researchers and other visitors rather than requiring a transfer elsewhere in Cambridge.

Cambridge South supports car-light access

The Cambridge South project includes 1,000 cycle spaces, links to the guided busway and Blue Badge parking bays. These facilities support onward travel by bicycle, bus and on foot.

The station also has a green roof with a wildflower environment and a rainwater collection system. According to the government’s opening announcement, design and construction efficiencies reduced the station’s carbon footprint by more than 22%.

The first-month total provides an initial measure of passenger use on the new campus connection.

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