Nice spot, thanks. I've edited the title of the thread in response to it.
IBM's shut formally, hasn't it?
Ah, thanks.
As Hadders notes - IBM is not actually closed, just nothing calls there.
Because it predates the modern village! The station was named after the nearby Breich Water.
Wasn't that considered but ruled out for some reason? Or am I confusing it with something else?Though it is worthy of note that once the decision was made not to close it, it was completely rebuilt as new - might have made sense to do that about a kilometre further north and maybe people might use it!
Well played on that front, just a shame the PTEs are basically toothless these days. I've posted before about the issues with White Rose Centre, so I won't go into an extended rant about it again... but if I'd bought one of those new houses I'd be very concerned about the future of Cottingley if WRC goes ahead. Just about everything about the proposal is flawed and I hope our future elected West Yorkshire mayor will have the authority to hold Leeds City Council to account over their duplicitousness.
There are a few folk who commute to Cottingley and then walk down to the White Rose office park or other employers in the area. In normal times, that is. I'm one of them.
You're echoing many of my concerns here. Up until the current situation, WRC itself has had a bit of investment and has improved a little, but it still has nothing on Leeds city centre itself, and for indoor malls can't compete with Meadowhall either. Besides which, the idea is apparently that the station will be focused on the office park more than the mall... in which case it shouldn't be named after the shopping centre. The equivalent would be if instead of building Meadowhall Interchange, Sheffield council had just renamed Brightside and called it a day.
We're drifting further off topic (apologies) but it's hard to overstate the negative impact Meadowhall has had on Sheffield city centre as a retail destination. Leeds hasn't suffered in the same way from White Rose, at least in part because WRC is more modestly sized. Indeed up until the pandemic Leeds city centre has grown into one of the country's leading retail draws, and it wasn't unheard of for London folks to book a train trip to Leeds so they could have more leisurely browse of Harvey Nick's than was possible in the capital. It's almost as if Leeds council are trying to screw themselves over by encouraging people to use White Rose instead... and that's before looking at the issues with capacity on that railway route.
A few years back WYCA commissioned a study into the viability of 61 potential new station sites across West and North Yorkshire. White Rose Centre came in at a lowly 57th out of 61.
