Cambridge South station will open to passengers on 28 June, the Department for Transport has announced.
Trains will start calling then at the £250 million station, and there will be an official opening ceremony the following day.
As many as 20 trains an hour will be calling during the peaks, and the DfT is predicting that it will attract 1.8 million users a year.
It will also be the first station to be ‘fully branded’ for Great British Railways.
The station will provide a direct link to the city’s Biomedical Campus, which includes scientific establishments, NHS hospitals and business centres.
Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said: ‘Backed by £250 million government investment, Cambridge South will open up access to jobs, homes and world-class facilities for people across the region, boosting the growth of the Biomedical Campus as one of the most important engines of growth in the country.
‘As the first new Great British Railways branded station, the opening is an important milestone for our railways and a sign of the real change public ownership will deliver. Faster connections supporting economic growth, thousands more jobs and homes and a railway that works for the communities it serves.’
Cambridge South will the city’s third station, following the opening of Cambridge North ten years ago. A fourth, at Cambridge East, is also being proposed by the East West Rail Co.
Cambridge South should have opened last year but the project was delayed twice. One of these delays was caused by a contractor’s bankruptcy.
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