page_title: Ely railway station
section_title: December 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Ely railway station / Services / December 2015
caption_attribution_description: English: Two trains at Ely railway station. On the left, at Platform 2, is a King's Lynn to Cambridge and King's Cross train. The one on the right was about to leave for Norwich, having left Cambridge at 13.12.
context_page_description: Ely railway station is on the Fen line in the east of England, serving the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
  It is 70 miles 30 chains from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Waterbeach and Littleport stations on the Fen line to King's Lynn. It is an important junction for three other lines; the Ely to Peterborough Line, the Ipswich to Ely Line and the Norwich to Ely line.
  Ely is a busy station with trains running to a variety of destinations including London, Cambridge, King's Lynn, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool. It is managed by Greater Anglia which is also one of four train operators that serve the station, the others being Great Northern, CrossCountry and East Midlands Railway.
  The station was opened in 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway at a cost of £81,500, the land on which it was built being a marshy swamp. The station was modified substantially by British Rail in the early 1990s, at the time that electrification of the line was taking place.
context_section_description: The station is served by four operators:
  CrossCountry trains provides an hourly service from Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street. This service is routed via Cambridge, Peterborough and Leicester, and uses Class 170 Turbostar diesel multiple units.
  East Midlands Railway provides an (approximately) hourly service from Norwich to Liverpool Lime Street via Peterborough, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Manchester Piccadilly. Services are operated using Class 158 diesel multiple units (or, occasionally, Class 156 diesel multiple units) which reverse at Ely.
  Great Northern serve the station as part of their service from London King's Cross to King's Lynn. Outside peak hours the services run non-stop between London and Cambridge as part of the half-hourly "Cambridge Cruiser" service. Trains then continue beyond Cambridge, with one an hour terminating at Ely and one continuing stopping at all stations on the Fen Line to King's Lynn. The journey from King's Cross to Ely is timetabled to take just over an hour on the fastest services. During peak hours most trains divide (northbound) or couple (southbound) at Cambridge which adds some minutes to the journey time. In addition, during peak hours most services make additional stops between London Kings Cross and Cambridge which contributes further to an extended journey time. During recent years the number of direct services has increased; from the timetable change of December 2013 there are direct services from London every half hour from 16:44 to 23:14. Some off-peak services can take as little as 1 hour and 5 minutes between London and Ely. During peak hours they can take up to 1 hour and 21 minutes. Most services are operated by Class 387 electrical multiple units but are sometimes operated by Class 365s.
  Greater Anglia serves the station with three routes:
  An hourly service between Cambridge and Norwich via the Breckland Line. These services normally use three coach Class 755 units. Four units are diagrammed to work the hourly service. Nine services a day are extended to Stansted Airport 
  A two hourly service between Ipswich and Peterborough via Bury St Edmunds.  These services normally use three coach Class 755 diesel multiple units. Two units are diagrammed to work the two hourly service.
  On weekdays there are four services that operate to London Liverpool Street in the morning peak, three of which originate at King's Lynn while one commences at Ely. There are four return journeys in the evening; one terminating at Ely while the other three continue to King's Lynn. There is no service on Saturday or Sunday. These services normally use Class 379 electrical multiple units.
caption: Trains in the station platforms
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