Cambridge railway station has a very unusual layout, with the platforms approximately resembling a capital H - to the left of the left vertical stroke is the station car park, booking hall, etc. There are two bay platforms in the area between the two vertical strokes at both northern and southern ends, platforms 2 and 3 at the south end and 5 and 6 at the north. All the way along the right vertical stroke is a single platform face - the second longest in Britain (after Gloucester) - that is split into two numbered platforms (1 at the southern end and 4 at the northern) which are then subdivided into 1a, 4b, etc. There are several sets of points that allow access between this line and the lines adjacent at multiple places.<br>
This merged view is looking north from platform 4, just south of the buffers for the northern bay platforms 5 and 6. Platform 6 is currently host to a Central Trains Class 170 DMU.
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Photo by <a href="mailto:cmckenna@sucs.org?subject=rail-photo at railfaneurope.net">Chris McKenna</a> 13/05/2006.<br>
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