... undergraduates. When the railway was constructed in 1845, we notice a sudden increase in the population of the parish of St. Andrew The Less ( Barnwell area). The reason for this was that although Barnwell might have not been accessible to undergraduates, it certainly was for the local tradesmen and commerciants. For them it was now possible to transport their goods to London and other cities much more rapidly. Also the range of goods that could have been transported was much larger, because now reaching cities such as London would have only took a couple of hours. Dairy products such as milk could be trasported, whereas before, by the time they had reached London they would have gone out of date. Finally the railway favoured the income of people from other towns, that wanted to come to live in Cambridge and study at its University. This also increased the growth in ...

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