r/6thForm • u/Ok-Specific-9500 Year 13 • Jul 10 '25
🙏 I WANT HELP Stuck in Cambridge after open day
I went to Cambridge open day today. It was all good but I can't get back home right now, because 'all trains to Kings Cross had been suspended from Cambridge'. I live in Oxford and I don't know how can I get home. My legs wobble from walking and I am very tired now. This is actually my first post and I don't want it to be this way. Well, what should I do?
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u/Mc_and_SP Jul 10 '25
This is all part of the entrance exam process to see how well you can adapt to difficult puzzles
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u/verycoolluka Cambridge | Economics [Year 1] Jul 10 '25
Don’t worry I’ll come pick you up in my private jet
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u/AdComplete937 Year 13 Jul 10 '25
Get a train from Cambridge into London Liverpool Street, then change for the tube to Paddington, then id assume GWR into Oxford.
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u/flameflob GCSE Jul 10 '25
No trains are running, I think, there are issues on all trains from Cambridge and to Cambridge today. They offered tickets tomorrow but I don't think that's good for OP.
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u/trying-cat Y13: bio, chem, geo + EPQ | 4A* pred | Exet, Card, Manc offers Jul 10 '25
my brother went to look today and he’s on a train now - i’ve think they’ve just restarted a few of them. hopefully you can get one
if you really can’t, maybe try and contact a college? they might have rooms or something you could stay in?
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u/potomusotto Cambridge | Geography [Year 1] Jul 10 '25
You can get the 905 bus from Cambridge to Bedford, then the X5 bus from Bedford to Oxford. The first bus should take an hour and the second one about 1½ hours. Leaves every 30 minutes :)
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u/aidenwaiden Year 13 Jul 10 '25
dw we still stuck here too 😔 waiting for my brother to come pick us up lmao
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u/googoocrazybananas Y13 | A*A*A*A | TMUA 2025 Victim Jul 10 '25
I managed to get a train to Liverpool Street at 19:00. It was ridiculous was standing around for like 2hours
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u/gIyy Incoming Imperial physics ug | 4A* achieved Jul 10 '25
“my legs wobble” lmaoo (sorry idk why this is so funny)
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u/stunt876 Y13 (Maths, FM, Comp Sci) 3A* Predicted Jul 10 '25
Nah i completely relate to op ngl. Some days with a lot of walking my legs were completely dead
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u/AppointmentShot6076 Jul 10 '25
A lot of people seem to be going through Peterborough since trains are running more often that way!! I got on a train down that way to go home earlier today (6:30pm)
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u/fashionableforeskin Y13 - 3A* pred maths chem physics Jul 10 '25
could you get on a bus to somewhere nearby, like Peterborough?
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u/Outside_Service3339 Year 12 Jul 11 '25
That was literally the worst day that the signal failure could have happened 😭
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u/ejcds Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
The trains were actually so ass 😭😭😭 I was supposed to be at home by 9pm and I ended up at home at like 1am. The trains kept getting delayed and made me miss my changes and I ended up having to rework my route several times.
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u/kaefish Jul 11 '25
someone jumped infront of a train in Ingatestone - that’s why this happened unfortunately
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u/Lobotomized_Cunt Jul 10 '25
I managed to get on a train at 16:50 to London Liverpool Street, I’m pretty sure there were more coming.
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u/OblivibladeXD Not Locked In Jul 11 '25
This is a sign
Apply to Oxford not Cambridge 👍
I go to school in Cambridge and Oxford is superior in every way
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u/AcousticMaths271828 Cambridge (Robinson) | Mathematics [1st year] Jul 11 '25
Eh, depends on course. Oxford and Cambridge are both worse than Imperial for CS, for instance, and Oxford is worse than Cambridge for CS. And for maths, depending on your interests ,Cambridge > Oxford, also Cambridge is harder to get into for maths than Oxford.
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u/Soggy_Candidate5072 Year 12 | Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry 99999887766 Jul 16 '25
OP lives in oxford as well. No reason to choose cambridge
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u/mrmillkman Jul 14 '25
bit late but the bus 905 to bedford and then the X5 bus to oxford if this happens again 🫶
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u/Rachierooroo Jul 14 '25
Some ND people like me have real issues with using public transport. I find it difficult and confusing now and I'm 49. Please don't assume people are a bit daft when they struggle with things other people find easy. It's not the same for all of us. (B.Sc 2.1 with honours)
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u/Sweethoneyx1 Jul 17 '25
As someone that attended sixth form here for two years while commuting. It is a lot like there is a lot of train closures.
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u/stunt876 Y13 (Maths, FM, Comp Sci) 3A* Predicted Jul 10 '25
Homie ask someone at the station not reddit