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City of Zion Church, Coldham's Road
Image: © Hugh Venables
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
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Laundry Lane Crossing: towards Newmarket
The line to Newmarket, Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket curving sharply away from the junction with the main line. Because the bend is so sharp there is a continuous check rail and a 20 mph speed limit. The crossing is currently ungated, but half-barriers are in place, wrapped in black plastic and not yet operational.
Image] is the view in the opposite direction.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 19 Oct 2014
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An Ipswich train nearing Laundry Lane Level Crossing
The crossing is on the very tight curve just before the Newmarket line joins the main line from Cambridge to Ely, so this train from Ipswich is moving very slowly. Stadler bi-modal trains like this use diesel power on many lines in East Anglia (like this one), but can raise a pantograph on the main lines which are electrified.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 6 Jul 2020
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Coldham's Road and a Norwich train
Looking towards the main line to Ely, King's Lynn and Peterborough from the level crossing on the Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds line as a Cambridge-Norwich train passes. Coldham's Road serves an industrial estate between the railway and the common.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 19 Oct 2014
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Very slowly round the bend
Having come off the main line and inched round a very tight curve, the 11.47 Cambridge-Ipswich train is about to accelerate and will build up to a decent speed by the time it reaches Cherry Hinton.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 2 Oct 2019
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Path under the railway on Coldham's Common
The railway line goes from Cambridge to Ipswich.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 31 Jan 2015
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Orchard Cottage, Coldhams Road
Once one of Cambridge's most isolated houses, accessed only via a level crossing, it was converted to offices sometime around 2000
Image: © Keith Edkins
Taken: 17 Oct 2011
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A minute or two late at Coldham's Common
The 09.20 from Ipswich to Cambridge inching round the sharp curve on the approach to the main line at Coldham Lane Junction at 10.43 (two minutes after its scheduled arrival time at Cambridge) on the last morning of October. Two days before, this service was in good time: see
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 31 Oct 2018
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Train from Ipswich crossing Coldham's Common
Trains slow to a crawl round the sharp curve before the junction with the main line.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 2 Apr 2013
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Cattle grid and cattle creep
The bridge was probably built principally to allow the passage of cattle under the railway, but it now serves the extensive network of paths on the various Cambridge commons. Cattle grids are a feature of the network, necessary because of the high levels of cycle traffic and the fact that traditional rights to graze cattle on the commons are still exercised.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2013
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