Most Successful New Station

[RichmondCommu]

Totally agree. But in terms of Most Successful Station either outright or versus predictions?

In all honesty starmill I would have to say in the case of Manchester Airport probably both. However in the case of East Midlands Parkway I think the predictions were wildly optimistic!
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For all the talk of it being a white elephant, passenger numbers at East Midlands Parkway (0.28 million) are only about 25% below those of Mansfield (0.37 million).

In all fairness I think East Midlands Parkway was expected to attract far greater numbers than Mansfield, especially given its excellent road links.

 

[CalderRail]

Brighouse is pretty successful. It'd get more traffic if it had a better variety of services than 1 an hour to each of Huddersfield & Manchester, everything else to Leeds though.

 

[al green]

Milton Keynes Central, over 5m entries/exits per year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Basically, Dronfield was a bit like Chester-le-Street - a local station on a line with no local services. Now there's a Northern service from Nottingham to Leeds, which fills that remit (to an extent).

Your comparison to that of Chester-le-Street is an excellent example to have made.

 

[Tracked]

Wiki says 1990 for Meadowhall so yes - and it's very busy at 2.1 million. I think Brightside rather closed as a result of Meadowhall didn't it rather than it being an intended replacement? If the closure of anything else between Sheffield and Doncaster wasn't related to it, maybe it could count...

Just looked on Wikipedia & Brightside and Attercliffe road closed in 1995 after only having limited services stopping there. I remember them being request only stops some time after Meadowhall opened, possibly before as well.

Stations on the Robin Hood Line, Mansfield Woodhouse perhaps? went on it a couple of years ago and it seemed to be quite busy, though probably not as busy as some of the previous examples

 

[Marton]

Basically, Dronfield was a bit like Chester-le-Street - a local station on a line with no local services.)

Not quite. There are still some SuX Newcastle to Middlesbrough/Saltburn locals via ECML and Darlington.


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[Francis]

Brighouse is pretty successful. It'd get more traffic if it had a better variety of services than 1 an hour to each of Huddersfield & Manchester, everything else to Leeds though.

And four or five a day to Doncaster and London King's Cross, don't forget! At very reasonable fares too.

 

[Gareth]

I've got to say Liverpool South Parkway has been regarded as a success by rail officials, but in my opinion, it is a white elephant.

Why is it a white elephant? Every service through it, bar Virgin, calls there. Seems pretty well used and successful to me.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Why is it a white elephant? Every service through it, bar Virgin, calls there. Seems pretty well used and successful to me.

Could it be that the platform lengths there are not sufficiently long enough on account of the site being the former Allerton station with certain infrastructural and spare space problems involved which currently precludes the use of hoped-for longer service trains ?

 

[TheGrew]

Could it be that the platform lengths there are not sufficiently long enough on account of the site being the former Allerton station with certain infrastructural and spare space problems involved which currently precludes the use of hoped-for longer service trains ?

I think that is a pretty reasonable assessment of the issues with the station. I have used the station a couple of times to park and ride though and have found it very helpful (albeit not particularly easy to get to).

How about Chandler's Ford as a new station opening. Nearly a quarter of a million entires and exits on a single track station?

 

[petersi]

Chafford hundred opened 1993 just over 2 million users also must be one of the busiest single platform stations


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[unlevel42]

Meadowhall and Brightside coexisted for a while.
Brightside was much busier than Attercliffe Road.
Attercliffe Road closed a few months before Brightside. Both still have their platforms and access.
The fares to Sheffield from Meadowhall platform 1 was 5p cheaper than those departing from platform 3 and 4.

 

[Grumpy]

West Yorkshire has some successes -
Steeton and Silsden 0.79 million
Saltaire 0.79 million

Given the OP asked for a view on the most successful then these must be thereabouts. On the basis of the numbers of users (greater than the so-called Parkway stations) and the minimal initial cost-not much more than a few planks of wood, and no cost of reopening lines or putting on additional services.
Not saying that all the others mentioned haven't been successful in their own way, but cant help wondering if some aren't really economic basket cases if all the costs are taken into account.

 

[HowardGWR]

It might be interesting to judge the effect of parkway stations if the extraction from nearby centre-of-town stations was analysed. I daresay some of this extraction could be masked by general growth anyway, so difficult. Warwick Parkway comes to mind and now Stratford (upon Avon). Non SE growth is levelling off (see Modern Railways analysis) so Stratford could be a good case study for the future.

 

[yorksrob]

I suspect Parkway stations have their limits as primary stations for an area. I wonder whether Tiverton would have had a lot more passengers had it maintained a reasonable shuttle service between Junction and Town stations, rather than a Parkway station miles away.

 

[Starmill]

Some very interesting ideas. I think MKC is 32 years old? But certainly a very large rise! Chafford Hundred makes an interesting one... but I think the best candidates are Manchester Airport and Meadowhall.

Of course, there are factors like their location (which I tried to capture a bit by asking about the predicted passengers when the plan for the stations were drawn up) and how much they cost to build - but I didn't ask about them as that would just be too much!

I'd agree about Steeton and Silsden and Slataire - and add Burley Park to that. They must have been so cheap to build and look how well used they are now! Funny that despite the slight fail at Streethouse and Pontefract Tanshelf Featherstone is more than twice as popular! Then again I am in no way surprised at the lack of passengers on an hourly pacer going between two places nobody really wants to go to... IME people in West Yorkshire want to go to Leeds.

 

[wasi]

I live 500 yards from Warwick Parkway, and I have to say its superb.

Lots of parking, for those that need it, Birmingham New Street in under half an hour, London Marylebone in 90 mins. All thats missing is connection to Rugby (currently changing at Leamington AND Coventry is a pain) and it really will be even better .

 

[harry42]

Beauly?

 

[route:oxford]

I concur! A white elephant if ever there was one! Anything within the LO network has proved to be very successful thanks to the timetable and dare I say it the class 378's.

No, not a "white elephant".

"White elephant" is a term used by frothing nimbys before during and after the planning process to describe something that generally turns out be successful.

 

[steamybrian]

Shoreditch High Street...3.2 million
Hoxton........................1.3 million
Haggerston..................1.5 million
Dalston Junction...........2.75 million

Not bad for four consecutive stations opened in 2010

 

[Grumpy]

Shoreditch High Street...3.2 million
Hoxton........................1.3 million
Haggerston..................1.5 million
Dalston Junction...........2.75 million

Not bad for four consecutive stations opened in 2010

True. But given a brand new fleet of air-conditioned EMU's running at 3 minute intervals
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Chafford hundred opened 1993 just over 2 million users also must be one of the busiest single platform stations

True. Shows the benefit of putting stations next to major shopping centres, as for Meadowhall also mentioned on this thread. Which is another opportunity to mention the White Rose Centre in Leeds which cries out for an adjacent halt.

 

[Leylandlad]

What about Salford Crescent?

Opened in 1987 so just outside the 25 years...but highly successful.

Here are the stats according to Wiki...


2004/05
0.583 million

2005/06
Increase 0.671 million

2006/07
Increase 0.830 million

2007/08
Increase 0.876 million

2008/09
Increase 1.331 million

2009/10
Increase 1.374 million

2010/11
Increase 1.423 million

2011/12
Increase 1.548 million

2012/13
Decrease 1.141 million

Not sure why it went down in 12/13?

Technically it replaced Pendleton station a bit up the Atherton line.

 

[Polarbear]

Bristol Parkway must surely be one of the biggest success stories of the BR era?

There was nothing there when it first opened in 1972 & the station itself was little more than 2 platforms with "bus shelter" style waiting facilities. Just look at it (and the development in the surrounding area) now!

 

[ivanhoe]

Good point but Greater Manchester is a huge connurbation! I don't think this could be compared against East Midlands Parkway.
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Essentially the location was chosen because of its proximity to the A50, the A453 and the M1.

Correct and when the dualling of the A453 is complete, it may attract more Nottingham Punters.EMA does not have the range of flights of either Manchester or Brum but East Midlands Parkway is so close to Loughborough and Long Eaton which have a good range of services. The investment which I believe was a franchise commitment, could have been more wisely spent elsewhere on the East Midlands Network.

 

[racyrich]

West Ham c2c platform is new(ish) and very heavily used, but it's nearly all interchange traffic so how it measures up is another matter.

 

[Howardh]

This may be an appropriate time for me to 'reveal my colours' as it were;

Manchester Airport? Opened only in 93, 3m+ passengers, nowt there before?

It's actually hard to imagine how I coped before! The vast majority of my flights from there have used that station - never a taxi but occasionally a helping dad!

Blimey, if it shut I'd have to use...a...bus.....

 

[steamybrian]

Milton Keynes Central opened in 1982.
has 6 million passengers per annum

Birmingham Snow Hill reopened 1987
has 4.5 million passengers

 

[VTPreston_Tez]

Buckshaw Parkway always seems to be well used when I go through.

 

[bluenoxid]

Glasshoughton has surpassed its forecast.

 

[Altnabreac]

Slightly outwith your timescale as they opened in 1986 but Bathgate, Livingston North and Uphall have got to be right up there.

Opened on a shoestring budget in 1986 as a single line operated by Class 101s, they generated so much traffic they now have a double track 4tph electrified service and 2.5million entries and exits between them.

All 3 station car parks are now filled up with new extensions built (at Bathgate) or planned (at Uphall).