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Leicester Cambridge stations

Leicester Train Station

Leicester railway station, operated by East Midlands Trains, serves the Leicestershire city of Leicester and lies on the main line from London St Pancras to Sheffield and Nottingham. The station has a staffed ticket office and passengers are also able to collect tickets purchased in advance (for example, on the internet) from one of the automatic ticket machines located in the station.

Facilities at the station include ATM's, First Class Lounge, pay phones, public wifi, cafe, shops, toilets and baby changing facilities.

The station is an interchange point between the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to Leeds and services on the Cross Country Route from Birmingham through Cambridge to Stansted Airport and Norwich. Plans are underway to electrify the section of the Midland Main Line that is not electrified. Once completed faster speeds will be possible and as a result journey times to London will be under one hour.

Passenger services calling at the station are operated by East Midlands Trains and Cross Country. Destinations available include London, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Lincoln, Skegness, Kettering, Bedford, Luton, Loughborough, Birmingham, Cambridge, Stanstead Airport and Peterborough.

Parking is available at the station for 515 vehicles and is open 24 hours a day.

Cambridge Train Station

Located in Cambridgeshire, Cambridge railway station offers passengers services to destinations including Ely, King's Lynn, Birmingham New Street, London King's Cross, London Liverpool Street, Norwich, Ipswich, Stanstead Airport, Leicester, Peterborough, Stratford and Tottenham Hale.

The station, operated by Greater Anglia, lies on the Fen Line to King's Lyn, the Breckland Line to Norwich, the Cambridge Line with services to London King's Cross and the West Anglia Main Line to London Liverpool Street. Passenger services calling at the station are operated by Greater Anglia, CrossCountry and First Capital Connect.

Facilities at the station include ATM's, pay phones, public wifi, a cafe, shops, toilets and baby changing facilities. Parking is available at the station for 374 vehicles and is open 24 hours a day. Several bus services stop outside the main station building, linking the railway with the city centre and other parts of Cambridge, including Addenbrooke's Hospital. Buses also travel from the station out of the city to Sawston, Saffron Walden and Imperial War Museum Duxford to the south and Histon and Impington and Cottenham to the north.

The station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1845 and its station building with its long classical facade and porte-cochere is Grade II listed.