Buckshaw Parkway station to open in October (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Buckshaw Parkway station to open in October
11:02am Thursday 8th September 2011 in Buckshaw
TRAIN travellers can look forward to a new station opening in Chorley next month after it was announced Buckshaw Parkway would start operating on October 3.
The two-platform station is between Leyland and Chorley stops on the Preston to Manchester line.
It is expected to accommodate 450,000 passengers a year and will be operated by Northern Rail.
Buckshaw Parkway includes a 150-metre long platform, 200-car parking spaces with bus and taxi drop-off points, a fully accessible station building and steel footbridge with lifts started in the winter.
Comments(2)
Darren1951
says...
5:36pm Thu 8 Sep 11
The reported cost of building this station from scratch is reported as being £6.8M. The cost of the 2001 (note, 10 years ago) revamp of Blackburn station was allegedly £5M, and what did the good townsfolk of Blackburn get for it....a complete load of rubbish, so much so that another £1M had to spent this year to bring it up to some sort of even basic, acceptable standard.
Would anyone please care to explain why the original Blackburn figure was so comparatinely high, or were they being stung by cowboys? Judging by the state of the uneven tarmac on platform 4, I suspect this may well be the case.
Noiticer says...
12:24pm Thu 8 Sep 11