If they can justify Reston, they can justify reopening the entire Port Road route from Dumfries to Stranaer directly. Looking at Reston on a map the locals in Wellington, Cullompton and several other station campaigns must be wondering "why can't we get the Scottish authorities invovled?"
Well if its a simple platform you can just have a ramp for both normal and disabled access.
Well the cynical answer is that Reston was built to use it as a customs checkpoint after Scottish Independence.
That would be an unusual amount of planning ahead....
IIRC, the station is built on a wooden pier approached by rail along a stone-built causeway. I suspect that the condition of that pier will force a decision in the not-to-distant future..
Also:
This suggests an aspiration for something more than a "Sprinter Bay", which sounds hopeful for the wider use of the Stranraer Line.
Barrow Haven (a rebuild) cost £1.3m, one replacement platform (60m).
Without a car park I reckon it's doomed to failure. It's still not exactly in the town centre so making it accessible to people who want to drive to the railhead and then park seems vital to me. Otherwise you'll be leaving a lot of traffic on the table. Also not sure I'd just pooh pooh the clock tower concept. There's nothing wrong with trying to design public infrastructure to actually be appealing rather than just brutally functional. Stations are rather famous for being attractive buildings not just functional boxes. Now, obviously, cold hard reality might make such things unaffordable once it comes down to brass tacks but we might as well at least start of ambitious!
Depends whether they are regularly using things. However it should be reasonably easy to leave a section of track down the pier with a ground frame to allow a Charter to shunt into for a couple of hours while everybody goes for a pint/chippy/loo break or whatever.
Well quite. I can't imagine it would cost a lot to rehab that into a functional car park. The advantages of a large car park must surely outweigh any possible costs.
I don't disagree but you should start from the basic station and add to it (with justification for each element) not start at the top and trim down.
The justification of the cost would be that by moving the station closer to the rest of the town you shift the catchment area by 200m to stimulate greater use of the railway. The current line is on the edge of the town, swinging it in a bit more central is going to be worth something (the question is how much).
Uckfield, on the next branch over, was also using that modular design I think. not sure about how many others.
It's borderline, although if the charters want to use it, I think that building a new platform with runround loop and holding siding might justify the cost if it let the connection down the pier be removed entirely and railway liabilities on the pier ended.
Oh I agree it would be more convenient to relocate it.
Warehouses for freight forwarders using Cairnryan? It's only 15 mins away from any part of the current port, also the land could be sold cheap to encourage development and provide local jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk
Provisional plans have been unveiled for the potential development of a new railway station in Stranraer.
Network Rail wants to relocate the existing platform away from a former terminal on the East Pier which saw the last ferry leave nearly 15 years ago.
Architects have produced options for two sites - both of them closer to the town centre and linked to a new mobility hub.
The project - which it is hoped could be delivered for under £5m - would be based on a new modular design concept to deliver a modern and visually-attractive building, and support local regeneration.
Image source,Billy McCrorie
Image caption,
The community has campaigned to move the station after the ferry terminal it served closed in 2011
The current station is located on a pier at Stranraer harbour.
In 2011, the ferry terminal was relocated along the coast at Cairnryan leaving the facility "feeling remote from the town centre".
Perhaps a business case could be made for reinsting the rail/sea connection by doing that?
Looking at Google Maps, I don't think so unfortunately. Cairnryan is in the middle of nowhere - screenshot below. Going along the A77 in Streetview shows that there's hills immediately adjacent to the road on one side and water on the other side.
