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To mark the launch of an online industrial gazetteer by Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group, explore the city’s changing railway landscapes. This immersive short video, presented as part of the 2024 Cambridge Festival, features;
- contributions from numerous community organisations, including:
- archive photography taken over the last century
- contemporary drone video
- a soundtrack of ambient sound recordings capturing the rhythms of Cambridge’s railways
Take a tour of:
- recent construction at Cambridge South station
- Cambridge station area, which (when photographed aerially in 1944) hosted several stations, cattle market, engine sheds and turning platforms. See how the railway area has transformed by the 21st century!
- Mill Road
- Coldham’s Lane junction (to Newmarket) and railway sidings (now Beehive retail centre)
- Barnwell junction
- Ditton Meadows and River Cam railway bridge
- former Chesterton junction & sidings | now Cambridge North station (opened 2017)
- Cambridge to St Ives railway (now Cambridgeshire guided busway)
About the video
Produced 2024 by Gordon Davies for Cambridge Museum of Technology Published under Creative Commons Licence Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 through Cambridge Museum of Technology.
The video will be hosted on Cambridge Museum of Technology YouTube channel.
