New station/bus interchange for Bow Street

[Llandudno]

Local resident not happy

New station 'making my life hell', says neighbour | cambrian-news.co.uk

A HOMEOWNER has plastered a wall of his house with the words ‘Welcome to Hell’, which will now greet passengers to the new multi-million-pound station at Bow Street, after saying the development has “destroyed” his quality of life.

www.cambrian-news.co.uk

Perhaps the value of his property may increase because of the improved transport links...!

 

[Ianno87]

Local resident not happy

New station 'making my life hell', says neighbour | cambrian-news.co.uk

A HOMEOWNER has plastered a wall of his house with the words ‘Welcome to Hell’, which will now greet passengers to the new multi-million-pound station at Bow Street, after saying the development has “destroyed” his quality of life.

www.cambrian-news.co.uk

Station has only been open two weeks. Whilst the noise isn't ideal, you soon get used to it (said as somebody who once lived adjacent to a railway)

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

The difference is, the trains stop and start making more noise, instead of gliding quietly by

The whole complex, the car park, looks a bit too big. Doubtless it shall make long journies attractiver, say driving from Carmarthenshire to get the train to Chester, instead of getting the train from Carmarthen station. Might generate more rail traffic, but more driving too I fear

 

[Ianno87]

The difference is, the trains stop and start making more noise, instead of gliding quietly by

The whole complex, the car park, looks a bit too big. Doubtless it shall make long journies attractiver, say driving from Carmarthenshire to get the train to Chester, instead of getting the train from Carmarthen station. Might generate more rail traffic, but more driving too I fear

Depends whether people now drive just to the station and park for the train, rather than driving the whole way (or much further to reach a suitable station). Or park here rather then in Aberystwyth.

 

[Baxenden Bank]

I can see Mr Jones' (the householder) point. But as one of the commentators on the Cambrian News website article says, he also lives next door to a builders merchant who presumably have trucks and forklifts with reversing beeps. The house is also right up to the A road at the front. Not exactly 'splendid rural isolation'.

Google has the house and railway about 60m apart (as mentioned in the article). Some decent double/secondary glazing should sort things out. I'm surprised he didn't negotiate that through the 'community engagement team' mentioned, at least on the rooms closest to the station. In the overall cost of £8m, half a dozen secondary glazing units would be loose change.

I can think of many houses which are much closer to railway stations, existing and new, incuding the many former station houses now occupied as private dwellings.

Anyway, he has made his point, and the Cambrian News has probably had more hits on its website as a result.

 

[Llanigraham]

I had to drive past Bow St Station yesterday, at around 1500, and I was surprised to see quite a few cars in the car park, so it is obviously attracting some trade.

As for Mr Jones.
His house backs directly onto the main road, just before the roundabout so traffic noise must be quite high. He is also next to a large busy builders yard. His house is not that close to the station really. The distance is probably most of the car park and bus stops. I don't know what compensation he may have been offered by I spy a Nimby who hasn't got the amount he expected.

 

[topydre]

Man who bought a house right on a trunk road, with noisy HGVs going through all day complains that the railway line behind his house, which has been there for over a century and a half, has a station on it...

 

[madmaxno1]

A quick look at Zoopla will tell you that he bought the house in December 2011, however, in June 2011 TRACC had already published a report saying there was a 'Strong Case' for reopening Bow Street and Carno stations (Link), in fact, a quick Google suggests they'd even presented plans at the current site in 2009 (LINK) that differ slightly from the current ones with the access road completely surrounding this property.

Basically, the information was there but he chose to buy the house anyway.

As has been pointed out previously, the house is right next to a busy builders yard, one of the main roads into Aberystwyth, and the existing railway line so I doubt that it was exactly tranquil beforehand.

 

[Bikeman78]

There is a short item in Modern Railways about Bow Street. It mentions students walking to the campus. I can't see many wanting to walk a mile along an unlit A road.

Looking at the train times it would just be possible for a bus to connect out of the down train and into the up train. It wouldn't work if the down train was late though.

 

[madmaxno1]

There is a short item in Modern Railways about Bow Street. It mentions students walking to the campus. I can't see many wanting to walk a mile along an unlit A road.

Looking at the train times it would just be possible for a bus to connect out of the down train and into the up train. It wouldn't work if the down train was late though.

Realistically its largely used for postgraduate and office space (I believe they've also built a new innovation hub there as well), undergrads, for the most part, don't have to use it as they tend to use the main campus in town. It's likely that due to the infrequency of the buses up to this point that if you work there then you probably drive.

Unless they've created a new bus route, the existing buses don't actually travel between Bow Street and the University Goggerdan campus, there is a 526 bus that goes to the campus but that actually leaves from Aberystwyth station (not going via Bow Street) so if they want to connect properly then they'll have to fiddle around with the routes.

Having driven along that route, I don't think that apart from on a reasonable day the path is a fantastic option, as you say it's unlit but there's also nothing much in the way of shelter so if you were doing it regularly for non-leisure usage you're gonna get very wet at some point.

In my humble opinion, the station at Bow Street is great for those who live in Aber or Bow Street and who want to travel between the two (or further afield from Bow Street), its also good for the outlying villages but only if you have a car to get to the station or you're on the main bus route.