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Roof's finished, first Departure Screen also put in the bay platform.
Looking quite good, I must say!
Looking quite good, I must say!
The Roof in Hartlepool Station may look good but stations should be maintained a periodically refurbished from a dedicated budgets, not from money purported to be spent on enhancing rail use by providing a metro system. The Metro should be about extending track to link areas like Guisborough, Ingleby Barwick etc that are nowhere near a railway line and adding platforms where people live miles away from one. Instead it is being spent on refurbishing stations and repositioning or adding platforms only on existing lines. And adding extra trains, many of which will be nearly empty during off peak hours. Spinning this work as a Metro is delivering any incentive to get people off the road and on to trains because it isn't going anywhere different to the existing routes.
Teesside Airport station might be handy for Business Travellers but I can't see many families lugging suitcases on and off the station to the terminal building for the annual jolly. Billingham Station is the absolute pits, on average, every time a train arrives, only six people board or depart from the train. This is less than Allens West than Eaglescliffe. Thornaby Station is nowhere near their Town Centre. I could go on . THe issue is that using the existing lines means no consistency of provision as they are remnants of a system designed for the communities of the 1950's.
Redcar is going to get three platforms, but Billingham with a similar sized population keeps it's one grotty wholly inappropriately located station, and Guisborough gets none.
This scheme has been designed by people who won't be using it when it comes to fruition if they are not already.
Teesside Airport station might be handy for Business Travellers but I can't see many families lugging suitcases on and off the station to the terminal building for the annual jolly. Billingham Station is the absolute pits, on average, every time a train arrives, only six people board or depart from the train. This is less than Allens West than Eaglescliffe. Thornaby Station is nowhere near their Town Centre. I could go on . THe issue is that using the existing lines means no consistency of provision as they are remnants of a system designed for the communities of the 1950's.
Redcar is going to get three platforms, but Billingham with a similar sized population keeps it's one grotty wholly inappropriately located station, and Guisborough gets none.
This scheme has been designed by people who won't be using it when it comes to fruition if they are not already.
I see your point Graeme, but any investment is good news in my opinion, and stations such as Hartlepool really did need it. It would be nice if stations were maintained through a seperate pot of money, but unfortuantely this never happened and it is very likely that it never will with all the cuts coming. Extending the lines and reopening stations would also be great, but I don't think we'll be seeing that in the next few decades. Best to get any investment while we can and hope that more will be coming in the future.
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Well Hartlepool is done... but there's even a dedicated Wiki Page to the Tees Metro, with images - the lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees_Valley_Metro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees_Valley_Metro
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