Some possible new stations?

[PaulLothian]

Winchburgh, between Linlithgow and Edinburgh Park, would be a logical station site. This has recently been recognised in the local development plan with a proposal to more than treble its current population, many of whom would be commuters. It would also be more accessible for the population of Broxburn, the neighbouring town, than is Uphall on the Bathgate line.

Capacity issues on the line would be manageable if the proposals come to pass for a Dalmeny West-South spur to divert some Edinburgh-Glasgow and Edinburgh-Dunblane services to a new Airport interchange station at Edinburgh South Gyle.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Id put halts back in the Stroud Valley at Brimscombe Bridge, St Marys Halt and Downfield crossing. This would allow locals to use the rail service rather than the buses, and free up some of the traffic from that is becoming some very congested roads. In many cases the stairs exist from the Chalford Flyer service that existed until the 60s. The only problem is that it would be difficult to change direction of the service at Chalford, because the old station site has had a housing estate put on it. Running through to Kemble might make more sense, though it would make the service rather less frequent. The benefit here is that you could then use the old Tetbury bay at Kemble, without conflicting with through traffic. All the halts would be unstaffed, so cost would be minimal.

Very unlikely to happen of course because no money exists to build the platforms, and the doubling and resignalling of the line is now probably not going to happen, even though it got the green light. OTOH, it will have to happen sometime, and its not like the Chalford service wasnt much frequented when it was withdrawn. It was only withdrawn because it was steam hauled, and nobody was interested in using alternative stock.

 

[PaulLothian]

Id put halts back in the Stroud Valley at Brimscombe Bridge, St Marys Halt and Downfield crossing...

That started me on a nostalgia trip - I spent two school years peering over the school fence next to Downfield Crossing Halt watching the Chalford autotrains, while a couple of clearly demented pals spent their lunchbreaks at the other end of the school grounds, watching passing buses...

The trains were clearly the quicker way to get to Gloucester, and would still be.

 

[PR1Berske]

Couple more in Lancashire, though these are probably only in "ideal world"


SOUTH RIBBLE
Hoghton (Follows Bamber Bridge, precedes Pleasington)

Five minutes, if that, after Bamber Bridge. It rankles that somewhere with a Station Road ground to a halt every time a train goes past can't take advantage.

Midge Hall

Stop the train, they want to get on!

 

[The Planner]

Down here in Brum, there’s talk of new stations at Fort Dunlop, for the shopping centre,

Thats all that one will ever be, talk.

at Kingsbury, both on the Birmingham-Derby line, served by a new Birmingham to Tamworth via Coleshill local service.

Finding paths for that would fun too....

Also, extension of the Walsall electric service round to Aldridge would be a really useful thing to have.

Aldridge is probably the biggest goer out of the lot, but it wouldnt go electric.

Kenilworth, on the Coventry-Leamington line.

Been looked at so many times and fails because without some more double tracking you just cant get the paths. I know some consultancy is making a mint out of the current study....
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Pelsall and Brownhills
These would be on a link from Walsall to Lichfield. There are numerous combinations of service that could be investigated (ie Birmingham-Lichfield via Brownhills or simply Wallsall-Lichfield or carrying on to Burton/Derby). However this would require re-instatement of the line between Wallsall and Brownhills, which would carry a fair bit of cost.

Wont happen until Stourbridge Bescot ever re-opens, and thats looking unlikely.

Alrewas
Between Lichfield and Burton. Could also serve the National Memorial Arboretum.

What would serve it though ?? unless you wired Lichfield to Derby you would be running more diesels under the wires on the cross city.

 

[LE Greys]

Assuming the GWML ever gets electrified, and quadrupled as far as Wooton Basset (in other words, when Hell freezes over):
Steventon?, Grove & Wantage, Challow?, Uffington? and Shrivenham
Apart from Grove & Wantage, they are unlikely, since they never served very big places.

Wooton Basset
Decent-sized town with a big RAF base just up the road. An hourly semi-fast to London and a reinstated Bristol-Oxford service would stop there, as would all Swindon-Melksham-Westbury trains (might be an opportunity to increase those to hourly).

Corsham
There is already plenty of demand for it, and it is about the same size as Wooton Basset. Best served by one Bristol-Oxford and one Bristol-London each way per hour.

 

[ST PADDY]

HUNSLET PARKWAY.
This would be located at Balm road next to the spur to the Middleton railway.
This would be ideal for the morning commutors into Leeds as the tail of the traffic jam generaly starts at Junction 5.
There is decent road access from the M621 though the car park would have to be located at the present rail depot with this moving back to its origoanl location at Stourton.
However to serve the freight terminal with out crossing the main line would see the depot built on the adjacent spare land at valley farm road.

Hunslet would also allow direct connections to the Middleton railway who would have a platform on the spur.
The main station would have two platforms with a bay platform on the Sheffield side facing Leeds. This would be for a tram link service that would run alonside the present line till Hunslet goods junction, then on to crown point, Leeds station, Whitehall road, Holbeck, Elland road, Cottingley esatate and Cottingley station and the White rose centre.

There would also be a circle service via the centre of Leeds, this would run along Wellington road, little queens st, st pauls, st park st, great orange st, (the last three are one way streets in the opposite direction so some rearrnagment of present traffic patterns would be needed.) Calverley st, Portland way, Woodhouse lane, Albion way, and the headrow to the bus station, then back to Hunslet via the royal armouries.
This would be a two way circle line with services out via Leeds station and out via the armouries.
half the services out via the armouries could from Wellington road contniue via the corn exchange and the bus station to terminate within the armouries complex giving passengers from Leeds station a direct service.

 

[tbtc]

Parkgate & Aldwarke
This is between Swinton and Rotherham. The line used to be 4-track round here. If the section from Swinton junction to the junction for Rotherham Central was put back to four lines (no civils, just a bit of deveg and signalling required), then this could provide separation for services from Sheffield to Leeds/Doncaster. It would also provide a good stopping point and bring yet more commuters within easy reach of the railway

This is the one suggestion on the thread I'd see happening.

Parkgate is basically Rotherham Town Centre these days; a station here means you could close the existing Rotherham station, which means getting rid of the "loop" which means getting rid of the Holmes Chord, which means getting rid of a major cause of capacity problems in South Yorkshire.