It was good to see a level of debate to my letter last week in the Cambs Times. As far as my campaign goes I have been in contact with the department of transport, fenland council, crosscountry trains and national express east anglia.

National express say they stop every time they pass through Whittlesey and that they plan to make improvements to the station, this is only by putting up a poster board and potted plants.

Crosscountry, who run trains through Whittlesey every hour but only stop 3 times a day, say that timetabling is out of their hands and that it is down to network rail.

Counciller Martin Curtis says that he will try and push through a better service when the other fenland councillers push for the reopening of the bramleyline.

And finally, the department for transport says that crosscountry and east midland trains only run a token effort to run trains to/from Whittlesey. They also said that the council and the operating company could bid for a government grant to ensure basic facilities for the station in the hundreds of thousands. And neither have applied.