Date: 08/10/2014

The company which built Cambridgeshire's guided busway is to be 'held to account' for the cost of defects, the county council has agreed. BAM Nuttall handed over the project two years late in August 2011. The council said it was left with £31m of defects on the St Ives to Cambridge route. It said while there were no safety concerns, the defects needed to be fixed. [From Mark Bartlett]

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The company which built Cambridgeshire's guided busway is to be "held to account" for £31m of defects, the county council agrees.

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This is the Cambridge end of the Northern (from Huntingdon) part of the new Guided Busway. The bus is about to turn right along Milton Road to the city centre and station. The avenue of trees ahead runs along the old line to Chesterton Junction, adjacent to Cambridge Science Park. There is a scheme afoot to open a new Cambridge Science Park station, in which case it would make sense to extend the Busway across Milton Road into the former goods yard adjacent to the station. Notice the absence of concrete blocks [see image 32111].
Location: Cambridge
Company: St Ives Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)
10/09/2011 Ken Strachan

The deserted platforms of the closed station at Histon, on the St Ives, Cambridgeshire, branch in 1981. The 1847 station building is seen here occupied by a flooring company. [Editors note: The branch closed to passengers in 1970 with closure of the final freight-only section of the line in 1992. It is planned to convert the former branch into the worlds longest guided busway with effect from the summer of 2009 - see news item.]
Location: Histon
Company: Eastern Counties Railway
//1981 Ian Dinmore