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Soham railway station welcomes first passengers in 56 years

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Soham's new railway station has passenger services roughly every two hours in each direction

A town is welcoming its first rail passengers in 56 years with the opening of a new unstaffed station.

A single platform stop in Soham, Cambridgeshire, will form part of the Ipswich to Peterborough line, with trains run by Greater Anglia.

The 06:49 GMT for Peterborough was the first train to stop at Soham since its station closed in 1965.

Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Nik Johnson, will conduct an official opening later.

The combined authority funded the £18.6m station, which had been under construction by Network Rail since the spring.

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The site has a footbridge, parking for cars and cycles, and ticket machines.

Passenger train services will run through the station roughly every two hours.

The nearest station to Soham is about five miles away in Ely, which also has lines serving Cambridge, Stansted Airport and London to the south, and King's Lynn and Norwich to the north.

Man using ticket machine at Soham railway station
The new railway station is unstaffed, but has ticket machines
Train arrives at Soham railway station
A view of the single track, single platform, unstaffed railway station from its footbridge
Inside a train carriage on the Ipswich-Peterborough line
On weekdays, services to Peterborough depart from 06:49 until 20:51, and to Ipswich from 08:38 until 22:34
Network Rail Soham stationNetwork Rail
Soham has car parking spaces for 50 vehicles
Network Rail Approaching Soham station, under construction in AugustNetwork Rail
Construction work on the station's 99-metre platform, pictured in August
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