New Stations (proposed and under construction)

[backontrack]

Ilkeston in Derbyshire is scheduled to open at the end of the year.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Oddly enough yes. York is one of a number of North Yorkshire council areas which form part of the Leeds City Region. Whilst North Yorkshire County Council control transport for the rest of North Yorkshire, York being a unitary authority is participating in the West Yorkshire fund. York is also an observer member of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (I think it'd probably be a full member if it wasn't for the requirement for CAs to be geographically contiguous).

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....lution-for-leeds-and-west-yorkshire-1-5899579

Thanks for that, very interesting although it has to be said logical as it does form part of the main transport corridor through West Yorkshire.

 

[a_c_skinner]

It (James Cook Hospital Station) is supposed to open around the timetable change in May, but whoever is contracted to build it is running behind.

I happened to have my camera with me the other day, so before I left work I hiked up the bank at the back of the hospital thinking I'd a famous newshound for Rail magazine.

There was no work going on, the platform supports are cast, nothing more.

 

[swt_passenger]

Hythe, Hampshire (although this held up at present due to lack of capacity due to freight)

Not so. The proposal failed on the basic business case, as we discussed a few weeks ago. There is no evidence in the report, or in the preceding RUS, that freight would have been an issue unless/until Dibden Bay was ever to be built.

 

[Gathursty]

I would like to ride the Esk Valley Line at some point. I await with interest on the progress of James Cook University Hospital station to make it worthwhile.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Chineham (Basingstoke) Hampshire (although this can not be built until electrification of the line between Basingstoke and Reading)

Really? What would stop it being built before electrification? (Genuine question).
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This comes under the completely aspirational category but i would be a huge advocate for a station at the side of the A6 parallel to the Lancaster University campus.

Several reasons:

-As reported on this forum in the run up to christmas demand for trains from lancaster (and other WCML stations) towards manchester for the christmas markets is huge, the university creates a lot of the demand for this found at Lancaster.

-Anyone who watched the recent tv series All Aboard East Cost Trains and saw the termly weekend chaos when students return home for the holidays at Durham knows that universities create huge rail demand with very few students driving. Lancaster university is not too dissimilar in size to Durham's main campus.

-There are currently freight loops on the site i'd propose for it so adding platforms to the loop could be simulatenously be used as an excuse to extrend them as i believe they're currently too short to accomodate much of the WCML traffic. Personally, i've only ever seen the Chirk logs, engineering trains and i once witnessed a short consist of maybe 12-14 tanks.

-The TPE Barrow and windermere trains could provide a more than adequate daily service and the Northern Furness peninsula to preston trains. These could be suplemented by the odd scotland and london bound train on a weekend due to popular demand from the international students (especially to london and edinburgh).

-If trams were ever to come to Lancaster (as the traffic situation will only get worse from its current horrific state) this would provide a good interface with the heavy and light rail at the bottom of the university's main drive as i doubt trams in the city centre would venture up to the main station.

Good points. That's something I've often wondered about. There's certainly space for a station there, and - as you imply - even space for passing loops for fast trains to overtake. However it does have the disadvantage of being basically in the middle of the countryside and still a fair walk from the University itself (which probably means few people will use at the end of terms, when they have all their luggage).

I wonder whether a better location might be Galgate. Still (just about) in walking distance of the Uni, would actually serve a sizeable non-University community, and could provide a useful park-and-ride for quite a few other villages around. You could provide bus links by extending the 2/2A/3/4 to the new station.

I think you would need to find some more trains than just the Barrow/Windermere ones though - those add up to little more than hourly, which for a place like the University would be well into most-demand-suppressed-due-to-infrequent-service land.

 

[Timothy Turtle]

Really? What would stop it being built before electrification? (Genuine question).

I think that they need the better acceleration of EMUs to maintain the end-to-end timings as there are fairly tight turnrounds at both Basingstoke and Reading. With DMUs the extra station, and therefore journey time, would mean putting an extra unit into the cycle. The cost of this blows the business case for the station.

 

[Deerfold]

This is not an attempt to rile you but it was 25 years ago (1989). They have been celebrating that anniversary this year. To me 1994, was rail privatisation year and if this forum had be in existence then I would expect any discussion to be with regards to what could be cut as a result of rail privatisation. However, I would still expect there to be a very healthy discussion on additional rail stations with the Robin Hood Line being a big driver of rail station reopenings throughout the mid nineties.

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co...le_Carlisle_railway_line_was_saved/?ref=var_0

Well, since you asked! I have a log of the stations since 1999 (whilst I would desire a full list, I've not had the time to develop and verify that yet). However, this includes both openings and reopenings. There is no real trend here although numbers were low in the early noughties. They are also going to be low in the early part of this decade too with it likely that some of the 2014 planned reopenings being pushed into 2015. 2015 is going to be a big year with Waverley kicking in. It might even match 2008.

Year Count of New Station
1999 4
2000 5
2001 1
2002 3
2003 1
2004 2
2005 7
2006 1
2007 3
2008 11
2009 6
2010 6
2011 3
2012 1
2013 3

Looking on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_stations_opened_in_1989 etc) I can spot:

1980 - 5
1981 - 7
1982 - 6
1983 - 3
1984 - 12
1985 - 12
1986 - 17
1987 - 18
1988 - 19
1989 - 13
1990 - 10
1991 - 1
1992 - 12
1993 - 14
1994 - 11 (includes Morecambe and Stourbridge which moved)
1995 - 4
1996 - 2
1997 - 1
1998 - 4

Suddenly 2008 doesn't look so impressive!

 

[najaB]

Looking on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_stations_opened_in_1989 etc) I can spot:

...Suddenly 2008 doesn't look so impressive!

Are those figures net - how many were closed in the same period? (Honest question). Another few stations that have been proposed in Tayside:

• Errol (reopening) and Dundee West (new/relocation) as part of strengthening services between Arbroath and Perth (for Glasgow/Inverness).
• Bridge of Earn, for Perth/Edinburgh services.

 

[Deerfold]

Are those figures net - how many were closed in the same period? (Honest question). Another few stations that have been proposed in Tayside:

• Errol (reopening) and Dundee West (new/relocation) as part of strengthening services between Arbroath and Perth (for Glasgow/Inverness).
• Bridge of Earn, for Perth/Edinburgh services.

No - these are just the number of openings, taking no account of any closures (though I noted where I knew two of the stations were replacements).

 

[The Ham]

I think that they need the better acceleration of EMUs to maintain the end-to-end timings as there are fairly tight turnrounds at both Basingstoke and Reading. With DMUs the extra station, and therefore journey time, would mean putting an extra unit into the cycle. The cost of this blows the business case for the station.

Correct, although there is time for an extra stop on the line this has been taken by the yet un-built Reading Green Park station.

a few details on progress here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-25198432

A new railway station could be built near the Madjeski Stadium in Reading.

The area around Green Park, which also has a large business park, is notorious for its long traffic queues, particularly on match days.

Plans for Green Park Station were put on hold two years ago, but the council now wants work on it to start within three years.

Reading Borough Council is set to re-submit planning proposals for the stop next year.

The stop, by junction 11 of the M4 on the Reading to Basingstoke line, is expected to cost up to £8m to build.

The plans were pulled two years ago when a key developer dropped out.

Simon Beasley, network manager at the council, said: "I think it will make a real difference, a positive difference.

"Clearly we don't know how it will be serviced by trains but if there's anybody who can divert from the roads to the railways, then of course that's going to be positive."

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I think that they need the better acceleration of EMUs to maintain the end-to-end timings as there are fairly tight turnrounds at both Basingstoke and Reading. With DMUs the extra station, and therefore journey time, would mean putting an extra unit into the cycle. The cost of this blows the business case for the station.

Ah yes, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

 

[MK Tom]

There is also Water Eaton Parkway on the line between Oxford and Bicester as part of the Chiltern Evergreen 3 project - the line is currently closed for the upgrade and the station is due to open in 2015 sometime.

And also see http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=97154 for some info on Saltford nr Bath Spa

There's also Winslow that will open with East-West Rail in 2017.

 

[adrock1976]

There's also Winslow that will open with East-West Rail in 2017.

My bold.

Imagine if somebody purchased a fare from Winslow to Wilmslow. The on-board/gateline staff would need to do a double take of viewing the origin and destination.

In peace

Adam

 

[Be3G]

Pretty sure Lea Bridge (between Tottenham Hale and Stratford) has been approved. Clearing of vegetation and stuff may have started but I'm not sure.

Yep, the station is being worked on as we speak with a plan to have it open by the end of the year.

 

[Bright Boy]

To MK Tom

Yes I also heard that Winslow is proposed for re-opening in 2017 by Chiltern Railways, also a new Oxford Station north of the current one (I forget its title), for a Business Park, Shopping Mall and new housing there I think, It might be called Oxford Enterprise Park ? or something like that

The proposed new station at Oxford is to be called Water Eaton Parkway'

 

[Starmill]

My bold.

Imagine if somebody purchased a fare from Winslow to Wilmslow. The on-board/gateline staff would need to do a double take of viewing the origin and destination.

In peace

Adam

It would probably be WINSLOW BUCKS and it might be changed to WILMSLOW CHES (if somebody thinks it through carefully!). I can't think of any examples where it's really easy to confuse two places by the characters that print on tickets.

 

[ironstone11]

Beaulieu Park won't open next year, or indeed any year soon. Still just on the drawing board. If I recall correctly it was originally planned to open around 2004, so 10 years later it is no nearer construction.

Depending on what and where you read, any time between 2015 and 2019.

 

[Mitch in Notts]

Land between the freight line and the southbound passenger line has been cleared I noticed today (apologies but been a month since I last passed). Still no other activity since soil samples were taken before Christmas.
Erewash (Derbyshire) taxi drivers are furious as due to a quirk in the boundaries the car park & taxi rank are in Broxtowe (Nottinghamshire) so they won't be able to tout for trade - pre ordered pick ups only!

 

[CockneySparrow]

Soham station has been rumbling on for a while about being reopened, not sure what the latest is on that, been a year since I heard anything

 

[swt_passenger]

Soham station has been rumbling on for a while about being reopened, not sure what the latest is on that, been a year since I heard anything

Soham re-opened station doesn't get a mention in any of the CP5 draft proposals, (wiki seems to be wrong in saying it is in the draft plan - a search finds nothing) and as you posted elsewhere isn't in the latest finalised plans.

NR may not even have it under formal consideration, it may just be another local bid bobbing along under the radar...

 

[bluenoxid]

Only thing to be picked up in the last few months has been the Tory candidate coming out in support of it happening.

 

[a_c_skinner]

When is this due to open?

Whenever I've got out of the staff car park to look at it there seems to be a lot left to do and a hive on inactivity. As in no one there at all.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I'd add York, Haxby to the list - its on City of York Council's top priority transport list, planning application is underway, and its likely to be funded from the West Yorkshire infrastructure fund.

How does the West Yorkshire infrastructure fund manage to stretch out its remit as far to the east as Haxby ?

 

[OwlMan]

How does the West Yorkshire infrastructure fund manage to stretch out its remit as far to the east as Haxby ?

Because the Leeds City Region includes the Councils of York & Harrogate

The members are

• Barnsley Council
• City of Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council
• Calderdale Council
• Craven District Council
• Harrogate Borough Council
• Kirklees Council
• Leeds City Council
• Selby District Council
• Wakefield Council (Chair)
• City of York Council
• North Yorkshire County Council

see http://www.leedscityregion.gov.uk/default.aspx/

 

[clc]

New stations at Robroyston and Winchburgh are priced options in the ITT for the new ScotRail Franchise.

A recent SPT report confirmed that SPT is examining opportunities with Transport Scotland and North Lanarkshire Council regarding potential new stations at Plains, Abronhill and Glenboig.

The report also confirmed that discussions are ongoing between SPT and East Renfrewshire Council regarding a new station at Auchenback; and with East Dunbartonshire Council regarding new stations at Westerhills and Woodilee.

 

[Mitch in Notts]

Some trees have been cut back & felled on the car park side & burning was going on on Thursday morning. No sign of anything major happening though!

 

[IanXC]

Because the Leeds City Region includes the Councils of York & Harrogate

The members are

• Barnsley Council
• City of Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council
• Calderdale Council
• Craven District Council
• Harrogate Borough Council
• Kirklees Council
• Leeds City Council
• Selby District Council
• Wakefield Council (Chair)
• City of York Council
• North Yorkshire County Council

see http://www.leedscityregion.gov.uk/default.aspx/

The City Region comprises the above, however the West Yorkshire City Deal, which the infrastructure fund is a part of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees, Calderdale and York, as North Yorkshire did not wish to participate (would have divided their area into "in" and "out".

 

[jimm]

To MK Tom

Yes I also heard that Winslow is proposed for re-opening in 2017 by Chiltern Railways, also a new Oxford Station north of the current one (I forget its title), for a Business Park, Shopping Mall and new housing there I think, It might be called Oxford Enterprise Park ? or something like that

The proposed new station at Oxford is to be called Water Eaton Parkway'

Winslow is not being reopened by Chiltern Railways. Winslow reopening is part of the East West Rail project and will be served by trains between Oxford and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury and Milton Keynes, with the latter likely to be operated by Chiltern, though nothing has been confirmed about train operators so far.

Oxford Parkway station, at Water Eaton, part of Chiltern's scheme for a second Oxford-London route, will open next year, probably September, going by recent comments from Chiltern's md.

 

[bluenoxid]

When is this due to open?

Whenever I've got out of the staff car park to look at it there seems to be a lot left to do and a hive on inactivity. As in no one there at all.

It should be opening this Summer.