Bordesley Chords - when?

[maximus_b]

Hi all

Looking forward to the new pineapple road station, which I hear will have more frequent trains once the bordesley upgrade is done - plenty in the news about money becoming available for this (£2.7B!), but has anyone put a date on it yet? I recall it doing the rounds for at least 20 years!

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(a rummage on the NR infrastructure plans page tells me nothing, as does a standard internet search ☹️)

 

[swt_passenger]

Hi all

Looking forward to the new pineapple road station, which I hear will have more frequent trains once the bordesley upgrade is done - plenty in the news about money becoming available for this (£2.7B!), but has anyone put a date on it yet? I recall it doing the rounds for at least 20 years!

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(a rummage on the NR infrastructure plans page tells me nothing, as does a standard internet search ☹️)

Welcome.

I think theres a fairly recent discussion in these forums on this area, but as far as I can see on a quick glance through it there’s no explicit date for the chords:

Proposals for three new West Midlands railway stations to be developed

https://wmre.org.uk/proposals-for-three-new-west-midlands-railway-stations-to-be-developed/ Quoting from the press release: Transport bosses have earmarked £1 million funding to develop proposals for new railway stations at Castle Bromwich, Coventry East and near Tettenhall. The three...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[The Planner]

28 or 29

 

[maximus_b]

28 or 29

sounds good! is there a source document for that, are you in the industry, or is it an educated estimate?

 

[The Planner]

sounds good! is there a source document for that, are you in the industry, or is it an educated estimate?

I am in the industry and have seen a couple of internal documents about it. Its the projects estimate, so could quite easily slip.