Cambridge & St. Ives Branch
The Cambridge & St. Ives Branch (as it is named on New Popular Editions Ordnance Survey maps) was a railway built by the Wisbech, St Ives & Cambridge Junction Railway in the late 1840s. The railway ran from Cambridge in the south, through Fenland countryside to the market town of St. Ives; more specifically, the line ran from Chesterton Junction, where it met the present-day Fen Line north of the River Cam. Passenger services along the line managed to survive the Beeching Axe only to last until 1970; the railway continued to be used for freight until the 1990s. The railway now forms the alignment of the northern section of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway: a bus rapid transit scheme.
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