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New stations

See Coming soon | Enabling growth | Connecting unserved communities | Campaigns by other groups | Recent successes | Interchanges

New and reopened stations are essential to improve communities' and businesses' access to the rail network, serve new areas of development and respond to changing economic and environmental circumstances. New stations can be expensive, and recent examples range from £2.2m for a single platform unstaffed station, to £12m for a full length two platform station with overbridge and lifts. This means that they generally require significant numbers of daily journeys if they are to be justified. See our Guidance for promoters which contains criteria for a viable proposal.

Over the past half-century more than 400 stations have either reopened or been built completely new. They are listed in the sixth edition of Railfuture's A-Z guide to station and line reopenings since 1960, Britain's Growing Railway, published in 2017. This interactive map of proposed new stations in Britain shows where they will be located (the most advanced proposals are marked in green, those with more work to do to prove the case in yellow).

Coming soon


There are still some stations yet to open which were funded under the third round of the New Stations Fund or the Restoring Your Railway initiative. Stations which have been funded more recently have been justified on the basis of supporting housing growth.

Two short films which give a foretaste of most (still not yet all!) of the new stations expected to open to passengers over the next few years: "The next new 21 stations" (February 2023) and "New stations in 2025 and beyond" (May 2023) - with full marks to Geoff All the stations Marshall!


Enabling growth


Growth is a major objective for the government, and a key part of that is to deliver more new houses. House building must be sustainable, so new houses should be where they can be rail-served, by existing stations or new stations. "Don't wait for fresh policy to press for sustainable transport to new homes" said Railfuture's Board Director for Infrastructure & Networks in a letter to his professional institute's house magazine The Planner in May 2022. The proposed stations below support potential new housing:


Connecting unserved communities


Railfuture advocates the following new stations which would raise living standards and promote social inclusion, and is lobbying local authorities to bid for the funding which they need:
  • Magor - this new 'walkway' station in Monmouthshire would help to reduce road congestion in and around Newport and the eastern side of Cardiff. Railfuture actively support and are represented in MAGOR, the Magor Action Group On Rail.
  • Ferryhill in County Durham
  • Deeside, in Flintshire (on the Borderlands line between Bidston and Wrexham).

Campaigns by other groups


The Restoring Your Railway initiative identified a number of proposals which between them could [/article 1865|reconnect one million people} Our branches have also identified a number of locations where rail development would support substantial housing development. Campaign groups, often affiliated with Railfuture, are pursuing these opportunities.


Recent successes


Our list of recent successes shows new stations served by existing services and routes. For new stations on new lines, see Links Success.

Interchanges


Where lines cross, Railfuture argues for the creation of interchange stations to create new journey opportunities, as for example by the new walkway between London Overground's Hackney Downs and Hackney Central stations, opened to passengers on 25 July 2015. There is potential for new or improved interchanges at:
  • Brixton
  • Brockley
  • Dorking
  • Lewisham
  • West Hampstead