Cambridge 2000: Chesterton Sidings
| Description: Chesterton Sidings |
A large tract of land in north Cambridge was used for
sidings for trains. As the utility of the sidings diminished,
it was eventually decided to build a
railway station
on the site.
This was a typical example of an industrial
urban brownfield site. The name "brownfield" suggests
there is something environmentally unsatisfactory about
such sites. But as can be seen, although humans did not
leave this site completely alone, when there are no
humans around, nature is perfectly happy to take
over, no matter what was on the site previously.
Most of the nature on the site was wiped out when the
new station and surrounding land was developed.
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