Reporting problems at Foxton Level Crossing
If you have any problems or see something which you believe is unsafe then please phone:
1. British Transport Police on 0800 405040
2. Network Rail on 08457 114141
3. You can also use the emergency button on the help-point on the London Bound platform
4. Please also tell the Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton Rail User Group (railusergroup@melbourn.org.uk) as we are collecting a list of problems and incidents
Meldreth Station
Meldreth station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn. Run by First Capital Connect – Great Northern line, trains operate between London King’s Cross and Cambridge. Trains run approximately every half-hour during peak hours and hourly during off-peak times.
Shepreth Station
Shepreth station in Station Road serves the village of Shepreth. Run by First Capital Connect – Great Northern line, trains operate between London King’s Cross and Cambridge. Trains run approximately every half-hour during peak hours and on the hour during off-peak times.
The station has car parking facilities for 11 cars.
Gardening time again
If you have enjoyed looking at the spring flowers at our three village stations, please consider coming along to one of our working party days to turn things around for the change of season.
A picnic and gardening day will take place at Meldreth Station on 1st June from 11AM onward, with a picnic lunch break. Dates for Shepreth and Foxton to be circulated soon.
As previously reported, our local garden centres have been very generous with donations of seed packets, and residents have kindly cultivated seedlings at home for transplanting to the platform tubs. We would welcome, as always, any donations of whatever sort people might have to offer – left-over soil or compost, spare summer annuals, etc. We have still more seeds to offer anyone who’d like some for use in their own gardens.
Everyone is welcome, so please drop by if you are curious, or get in touch if you’d like to get involved at a time of your own convenience. The idea is that the station gardens should to be open to anyone in the community who’d like to take part.
Special meeting about Foxton Level Crossing
There will be a special public meeting with Network Rail Route Managing Director Dave Ward, to discuss safety improvements at Foxton Level Crossing at 7:30pm on May 21st 2012 in Foxton Village Hall.
Description of the Level Crossing at Foxton
At the AGM it was suggested that a document describing the level crossing at Foxton would be useful to help everyone’s understanding of how the crossing operates and the risks we are concerned about.
The first edition is now available to download here:
http://melbourn.org.uk/railusergroup/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/120412a-foxton.pdf
It covers the operation of the crossing, possible risks, photographs of the various routes through the crossing and links to videos showing it operating.
The videos are also available here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RailUserGroup
including an annotated version of the gate closing sequence:
http://youtu.be/UYM_eyUDmyI
Please get in touch if you have comments about anything in the document.
Dave Ward from Network Rail responds to the issues at Foxton Crossing
We’d like to thank Dave Ward, Network Rail Route Managing Director for Anglia, for his immediate response to the invitation to come to Foxton to meet local people, and for his clear and forthright acknowledgement of the safety concerns at Foxton Level Crossing. A public meeting at Foxton Village Hall is now being arranged for late May, around the time that we expect work on the pedestrian gates to have been completed – details will be publicized as soon as possible. Other work happening now at the level crossing includes significant improvement to the emergency path, and British Transport Police monitoring of the vehicle barriers. We look forward to further discussion with Network Rail on other remedial work at the crossing.