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Soham station
6th May 2022
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Soham Station on the 6th May 2022
Greater Anglia train in the new Soham Station on the 6th May 2022 .
This station only opened on Monday 13th of December 2021.
Soham Station from foot bridge look toward Ely on the 6th May 2022 .
The town is to the right. The large tarmaced car park is behind us. I think the space behind the fence was used during the building of the station.
The foot bridge and ticket machines at Soham Station 6th May 2022.
The enterance to the station is just to the right of the photo. The footbridge is only used by a existing public right of way, but if a 2nd platform is ever built will be ready.
Freightliner class 66517 with a train to Felixstowe at Soham Station 6th May 2022.
These shelters will not give a lot shelter when the winter wind blows acros the wide open fen to the left of the photos.
The lack of some sort of waiting room were you can get out of the wind and rain needs to be adressed.
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New Soham Railway station
The new station at Soham is on on the Ipswich to Ely line, serving the town of Soham in Cambridgeshire in the UK. The original Great Eastern Railway station was open between 1879 and 1965 and was closed by British Railways. The new station is all new.
The first Greater Anglia train called at the new Soham station at 6:57 on Monday the 13th of December in 2021 This was the first passenger service to the Soham since 1965 .
The new station has a one 99 metre platform which has been called platform 1. The Greater Anglia Peterborough to Ipswich four car train services both ways use this platform as the line is only single track. The station has small waiting shelters lighting and information screens and a public address system and there are ticket machines. There is a new footbridge across the railway to connect to an existing public right of way, designed for future installation of lifts if a second platform is ever constructed.
There is a large a car park that can accommodate 50 vehicles with 4 of the spaces for blue badge holders.
The station was a 18.6 million investment that has delivered this new railway station for Soham. Passengers at Soham can now use the rail network for the first time in 56 years.
The opening of the new station comes after a long campaign to rebuild the station after it was closed and demolished in the mid 1960s.
After the station closed to passengers on 13th September in 1965 the railway line which is only single track has remained open with a very busy number of freight trains running between the Port of Felixstowe and the Midlands. The Greater Anglia Peterborough to Ipswich services used this line between the freights.
The Soham rail disaster
On the 2 June 1944, during the 2nd World War the station was destroyed in the Soham rail disaster when a munitions train carrying High explosive caught fire and blew up, killing two and damaging over seven hundred buildings. The driver was Benjamin Gimbert and his fireman James Nightall who were both awarded the George Cross for preventing further damage which would have occurred if the rest of the train had exploded. The signal box was also damaged in the explosion which resulted in the death of signalman Frank Bridges,The signal box is now preserved on the Mid-Norfolk Railway
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