Editing St Neots (section)

==Transport==

===Rail===
[[File:stneotsbuilding.jpg|thumb|St Neots Railway Station]]
[[St Neots railway station]] is served by generally half-hourly trains north to Huntingdon and Peterborough, and south to Hitchin, Stevenage and  London [[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras]]; most trains continue to [[Gatwick Airport railway station|Gatwick Airport]] and Horsham. There are additional peak time commuter services in the mornings and evenings to and from [[London King's Cross railway station|London King's Cross]]. Journeys are typically around 45 minutes to London King's Cross, 55 minutes to St Pancras, and about two hours to Gatwick Airport. On Sundays trains generally run to Kings Cross, not St Pancras.<ref name = thameslink>https://timetables.thameslinkrailway.com/TL/#/timetables/3550/Table%20A Thameslink timetable</ref>

There were 959,298 uses of the St Neots station (estimated ticketed entries and exits) in 2023 - 2024, ranking it 519 among the 2,585 main line railway stations in Great Britain.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage|title=Office of Road and Rail: Busiest Stations in Britain, and tables}}</ref>

St Neots station footbridge has access to the car park and taxi rank on the west side, and the district of Love's Farm on the east side. There are lifts to the platforms.<ref name="station">{{Cite web |title=St Neots Station {{!}} National Rail |url=https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/st-neots/ |access-date=15 March 2024|website=www.nationalrail.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>

[[East West Rail]] is a plan to establish a railway between Oxford and Cambridge; a company named East West Main Line Partnership is charged with managing the development. Between Oxford and Bedford the route will connect and reopen established sections of route, and is expected to start passenger operation in 2030; extension to Cambridge is intended for 2035. For the time being a service marketed as the [[Marston Vale Line]] operates from Bletchley to Bedford. The Partnership's preferred route between Bedford and Cambridge will pass to the south of the A428 Black Cat roundabout to serve a new station at [[Tempsford]], continuing to Cambourne and Cambridge. There will be no station on the new route at St Neots.<ref>{{cite web |title=Preferred Route Alignment |url=https://eastwestrail.co.uk/proposed-route/routeupdate |website=[[East West Rail]] |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>

===Road===

[[File:Neots sun.png|thumb|St Neots market square on a sunny Sunday]]St Neots lies adjacent to the [[A1 road (Great Britain)|A1 trunk road]] which links the town by road with London and the northeast of England and Scotland. The town is also linked with Cambridge to the east by the [[A428 road]] and Bedford and Milton Keynes by the [[A421 road]] at [[Black Cat roundabout]] on the A1 just south of the town.

Six miles to the north the [[A14 road (Great Britain)|A14 trunk road]] provides westward and eastward access to the [[English Midlands|Midlands]] and [[East Anglia]] respectively.

Although outside St Neots and in Bedfordshire, the Black Cat Interchange has a significant effect on local road users. It is a road junction between the A1 and A428 roads, and the heavy traffic results in serious congestion at times. A major road scheme is in progress to improve the interchange, forming a grade-separated junction; this will relieve the load on the southern part of St Neots and the A428 By-Pass. As well as improving the junction, the scheme will provide a new dual carriageway road as far as the Caxton Gibbet roundabout. In addition minor road connections on the A1 south and north of the Black Cat are bring relocated to provide safer access to the A1. The road scheme is expected to open in 2027.<ref>https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/a428-black-cat-to-caxton-gibbet/ National Highways Website: Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Road Scheme</ref>

===Bus===
St Neots is served by the [[Stagecoach Group|Stagecoach]] 905 service which operates between Bedford Bus Station and Cambridge Bus Station.<ref name = stagecoach>Stagecoach timetable information at https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/Timetables/East/BEDFORD/BE-905-230225.pdf</ref>

[[Whippet (bus company)|Whippet Bus Company]] operates its route 66 between St Neots and Huntingdon, Fenstanton and Hinchingbrooke Hospital. <ref name = whippet66>https://bustimes.org/services/66-fenstanton-st-neots?date=2025-04-27 Whippet service 66</ref>

Whippet also run a service 18 from St Neots to Cambridge Bus Station; it serves [[Cambourne]], Bourne, [[Comberton]], [[Barton, Cambridgeshire|Barton]] and [[Grantchester]].<ref name = whippet18>https://www.whippetbus.co.uk/media/uu5bqv1y/18-a4-tt-mar25.pdf Whippet Route 18</ref>

Central Connect operate a circular service in St Neots, route 61. This runs from Tesco Extra via the railway station, St Neots Market Square and Eaton Socon and back.<ref name = eynesbury-bus>https://passenger-line-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mytrip/service/5a628bcf-3bc4-44c0-9157-8ac8cbc5d640-timetable-20250227-d4bb6581.pdf Central Connect Eynesbury Circular bus timetable.</ref> The company also runs a service 67 to St Ives, via Papworth and Hilton.<ref name = bus67>https://passenger-line-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mytrip/service/ad322a15-6c68-4da9-b823-51011c278b08-timetable-20250106-0f8e3621.pdf St Ives bus route 67</ref>

These routes are correct as of April 2025.

===Air===
St Neots is within an hour's drive from [[London Luton Airport]] and [[London Stansted Airport]], and has a direct train service to [[London Gatwick Airport]].

===Cycling===
St Neots is on Route 12 of the [[Sustrans]] national cycle route that connects [[Colchester]] and [[Oxford]] via [[Harwich]], [[Felixstowe]], [[Ipswich]], [[Bury St Edmunds]], Cambridge, [[Huntingdon]], [[Sandy, Bedfordshire|Sandy]], [[Bedford]] and [[Milton Keynes]].

[[File:Bridge Riverside Park St Neots.jpg|thumb|Detail of tree-lined lake with swans in the Riverside Park]]
A foot and cycle bridge across the River Great Ouse was opened in 2011,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/stneotsrangers/connect2-project|title = St Neots Connect2 Project - StNeotsRangers}}</ref> linking Eaton Socon and Eynesbury, enabling pupils attending Ernulf Academy to avoid cycling through the town centre and improving connections to existing cycle paths. The scheme was a [[Sustrans]] [[Connect2]] project, and supported by Cambridgeshire County Council and Huntingdonshire District Council.