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Online Virtual Tour of Ely Rail Station will Help People Travel with Confidence

Train operator, Greater Anglia, has launched an online virtual tour of Ely rail station to help people travel with confidence – which is especially useful for disabled customers wanting to check how accessible their journey is. The tour has been designed to support journey planning, give customers a clearer picture of the station before they …

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Rail Passengers Advised to Avoid Travelling by Greater Anglia Trains During Rail Strikes Planned for 1st and 5th October

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

Greater Anglia is advising rail passengers, including football fans and people travelling to work and school or college, to avoid travelling by train on Saturday 1st and Wednesday 5th October as national rail strikes are set to cause widespread disruption. People travelling to the London Marathon on Sunday 2nd October will also be affected, as …

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Ely becomes first Greater Anglia rail station to have Changing Places accessible toilet facility

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

Ely rail station is now more accessible following the completion of redevelopment work. Greater Anglia has spent £1.7 million to reconfigure and upgrade the station buildings on platform 1 to create an improved layout and better facilities for passengers. Work started in the spring to relocate the ticket office and create a new waiting room …

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East Anglian Rail Stations are Quietly Nurturing the Green Shoots of an Eco-Revolution

Eco News, News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

East Anglia’s fragile wildlife populations are finding sanctuary at railway stations – thanks to the efforts of volunteers who have transformed land the equivalent of 34 tennis courts into eco-friendly gardens. Greater Anglia’s team of station adopters – who help to look after their rail stations for the benefit of their communities – increased the …

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New Rail Station Posters Highlight Delights of Ely to Boost Tourism

News, Organisations, Places to Visit, Tourism / By Alison Cooney

New posters are on display at Ely rail station to encourage passengers passing through to stop and discover the area. The new poster boards and large posters – which display images of the city’s attractions such as the cathedral, waterways and town centre – have been funded by the Hereward Community Rail Partnership (CRP), Community …

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Community Rail Volunteers in Cambridgeshire Recognised at Awards Ceremony

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

Greater Anglia has recognised its ‘very special’ volunteers in Cambridgeshire, who have been working to bring their local rail stations to the heart of their communities. The annual Station Adoption Awards ceremony was held on Friday, 15th October. Ely was named the ‘Best Staffed Station’ after volunteers and Greater Anglia staff brought the platforms to …

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Ely Rail Station ‘Turf Wars’ as Greater Anglia Staff Battle to Create the Best Floral Display

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

Greater Anglia staff at Ely station are on a mission to delight passengers with flowers, holding a competition to see who can create the best display. The ‘Ely Station Turf Wars’ competition has seen 12 members of staff allocated to six planters on the platforms and asked them to get creative with their planting schemes. …

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Ely Rail Station Receives Hedgehog House as Staff Raise Money for Local Sanctuary

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

Kind-hearted staff at Ely rail station have raised funds to help a local hedgehog sanctuary after receiving a hedgehog house for their new station wildlife garden. They raised £147.50 for Ryston Rachel’s Hedgehog Hotel, a self-funded Hedgehog Rescue in Downham Market which has been rescuing and rehabilitating hedgehogs for the past ten years. Greater Angila …

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Commuter's petition calls on Great Northern to reconsider changes

Featured / By Tali

An Ely commuter has started a petition, calling on Great Northern Rail to reconsider changes that will see passengers paying more to travel on the same service. Under the revised timetables, rail users will no longer be able to take full sized bike on the 0858 train – a major blow for bike and train …

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Ely rail "bottleneck" key priority, Transport Secretary tells Spotted in Ely

Featured / By Tali

The Ely area rail “bottleneck” must be sorted before investigating reopening Soham Station or building a new train station in the North of Ely, Chris Grayling says. The Secretary of State for Transport visited Ely Station on Thursday (January 11) to talk about ways of “improving” track and train reliability in the area. He told …

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Free exhibition space offered to charities – at Ely Station

News / By Tali

Are you a charity in need of free exhibition space? If so, Ely Station may have the answer, thanks to a new scheme launched by Greater Anglia today. The rail carrier is opening up empty spaces in stations to local communities, with Ely, Cambridge and Cambridge North stations among 20 to offer short term, temporary …

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Fun craze draws an avalanche of rock hunters to Ely

Featured / By Tali

The fun craze of rock art has accumulated an avalanche of hunters and artists across East Cambridgeshire. In about six weeks, Spotted in Ely Rocks has attracted 1085 members, with numbers soaring each day. Visitors and residents alike are choosing Ely and surrounding areas as rock hunting destinations, while local art shop Tindalls has devoted …

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Matryoshka mania sweeps Ely – and beyond!

Featured, News / By Tali

It may be freezing outside but Natasha doesn’t mind. Despite being “born” in Ely, she has Baltic blood (who said you can’t get blood out of a stone?) and doesn’t mind being cold. Stone cold, to be precise. That’s because Natasha’s a rock of art, crafted by Ely College teacher Fleur Patten – and for …

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Russian doll rock boards train to Kings Cross to make her fortune

Featured, instant_articles, News / By Tali

A rolling stone may gather no moss – but a Russian matryoshka doll created in Ely has travelled to London to make her fortune. The doll, one of a pair of twins painted on rocks by Ely College teacher Fleur Patten, was hidden at Ely Station on Friday morning. Greater Anglia train dispatcher Jessika Ransome told …

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Flying Scotsman to visit Ely, fans warned to stay safe

Featured / By Tali

Fans of the famous Flying Scotsman are being urged to stay safe when the steam locomotive travels from Ely on Wednesday. Network Rail is advising people to stay off the tracks and enjoy a safe day out when the engine tours Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk this week. Flying Scotsman is touring Britain this year, including …

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Bike thefts up 152 per cent across East Cambs

Featured, instant_articles, News / By Tali

Bike thefts have spiked by 152 per cent across East Cambridgeshire, Spotted in Ely can reveal. Figures supplied to us by police today show that between April and September, 53 thefts were reported to police – up from 21 during the same period last year. Ely has been hit the hardest, followed by Littleport, with …

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Work Begins on Additional Car Park for Ely Station

Featured / By Mark Cooney

Work has begun on the creation of more than 120 car parking spots in Ely, local councillors have announced. East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC) gave planning permission for the scheme in February of this year, and the Asset Development Committee and local Councillors have worked hard to procure the work to begin this month. The …

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Commuting to Cambridge by rail about to get easier, councillors say

News / By Tali

A new car park due to be built near Ely Station will make travelling to the new Cambridge North railway station much easier for Ely commuters, councillors say. As reported in Spotted in Ely earlier this month, East Cambridgeshire District Council’s planning committee unanimously gave the green light for the new 128 space car park. …

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More Parking in Ely as Change of Use is Given Go Ahead

Featured / By Mark Cooney

East Cambridgeshire District Council yesterday gave the go ahead to clear a piece of land they purchased last year behind Tesco to serve as more parking spaces in Ely and to commuters. The land on The Dock will park up to 128 cars including 8 disabled bays and 2 electrical charging points. It is thought a …

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