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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 circumstances. 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.
New stations are generally sponsored locally, rather than by central government. Potential sponsors include:
New Station Guidance was published jointly by Network Rail and Highways England in September 2020, concentrating on new parkway stations.
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. Meanwhile Network Rail are showcasing Maghull North as an example of how to accelerate delivery.
Rail Transport for New Homes. New Garden Communities need new stations to serve them. Some New Garden Villages are near existing stations and need good connections with them, by bus service and quality cycling routes for example.
In October 2021 the Chancellor of the Exchequer launched his Autumn Budget and Spending Review which at para. 4.69 says "In addition to the SR21 settlement, the government will continue to progress with the £500 million commitment to restore transport links previously lost in the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. This includes: ... £5 million development funding over the SR period to reopen rail stations in Wellington, Somerset and Cullompton, Devon." and "£650,000 to pay for feasibility work on 13 successful ‘Ideas Fund’ proposals for new lines and stations ... to re-open Corsham station and Stonehouse Bristol Road station."
Some other proposed stations include:
2013: Energlyn & Churchill Park - new station opened on 8th December 2013 serving demand for rail travel around Caerphilly, with funding from Welsh European Funding Office; Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway - opened 7 months early on 19 May 2013, adjacent to existing Park & Ride site; Conon Bridge - closed 1960, re-opened 8 February 2013 with services by ScotRail
2012: Fishguard & Goodwick
2011: Armadale, Caldercruix, Drumgelloch (Airdrie - Bathgate line); Buckshaw Parkway, Southend Airport
2010: Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch High Street (East London Line Extension); Blackridge (Airdrie - Bathgate line); Sampford Courtenay, Okehampton (summer Sunday service only)
2009: Corby (closed 1966, previously reopened 1987 then closed again 1990), East Midlands Airport Parkway, Imperial Wharf, Laurencekirk, Stratford International
2008: Ebbw Vale Parkway, Llanhilleth, Newbridge, Crosskeys, Risca and Pontymister, Rogerstone (Ebbw Vale line); Alloa, Aylesbury Vale Parkway, Heathrow Terminal 5, Mitcham Eastfields, Shepherds Bush, Stone (services suspended 2004)
2007: Coleshill Parkway (on Birmingham-Nuneaton line), Ebbsfleet International (for international services; domestic services started 2009), St Pancras International, Llanharan
2006: Liverpool South Parkway
2005: Larkhall, Merryton, Chatelherault, Kelvindale (formerly Dawsholm) (Larkhall line reopening); Gartcosh, Rhoose, Llanwit Major, Glasshoughton.
There is potential for new or improved interchanges at:
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 circumstances. 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.
New stations are generally sponsored locally, rather than by central government. Potential sponsors include:
- Combined Transport Authorities / PTEs
- Local authority (generally county council or unitary authority, which has the strategic responsibility for transport)
- Train operator
- Network Rail
- Combined transport authorities
- Developer
- Local authority
- Local Economic Partnership
- Train operator if a franchise commitment
- Transport Scotland (in Scotland)
- Welsh Government (in Wales)
New Station Guidance was published jointly by Network Rail and Highways England in September 2020, concentrating on new parkway stations.
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. Meanwhile Network Rail are showcasing Maghull North as an example of how to accelerate delivery.
Criteria
- New station projects need a business case, a sponsor and funding.
- A new station will normally only be considered if it fulfils a new opportunity (such as a housing development or business park) or helps to deal with a transport problem (such as acute traffic congestion).
- Location:
- Accessibility, space for car parking if required and the physical constraints of the site.
- Proximity to bus routes.
- How would pedestrians and cyclists access the station?
- Operational:
- What trains would serve the new station? Is there a local service that could stop there, for example, or does the line only carry fast trains?
- Do the existing trains have capacity for the new passengers, or would more rolling stock be required?
- Can the timetable be modified to include the additional stop? What effect would this have on turnround times and the rolling stock requirement?
- Would the signalling be affected? For example, would the new station be close to a level crossing?
- Is it on a gradient, or a curve?
- Planning and consultation:
- Is a station within the local strategic transport plan?
- How will it affect the local community?
- What stakeholder engagement has taken place?
- Commercial:
- What is the likely level of demand? Have surveys been undertaken?
- Will the new station also abstract passengers from nearby stations?
- What is the nature of the demand (commuting, educational, leisure?)
- Could the demand be met more cheaply in other ways?
- Value for Money (VfM):
- Station projects are tested against the Department’s normal appraisal criteria – WebTAG which compares benefits and costs discounted over the life of the project, the benefit:cost ratio (BCR); affordability is another consideration.
Rail Transport for New Homes. New Garden Communities need new stations to serve them. Some New Garden Villages are near existing stations and need good connections with them, by bus service and quality cycling routes for example.
Campaign targets
Railfuture advocate the following candidates which meet these criteria and are lobbying local authorities, Local Enterprise Partnerships and other organisations to bid for the funding which they need:- Welborne, a new station in Hampshire to serve the new 6,000-home Welborne Garden Village near Fareham, due to be granted outline planning permission following the Council Planning Committee's decision on 16 October 2019. Permission is subject to conclusion of a Section 106 Planning Agreement which includes allocation of a site for a rail station on the Fareham-Eastleigh line. Network Rail had earlier published a Pre-GRIP Feasibility Study, in November 2017. See our campaign leaflet, February 2019 update, March 2019 article, January 2020 news report, the January 2021 press releases from Fareham Borough Council and Buckland Development Ltd, and the November 2021 press releases from Fareham BC and Welborne.
- East Linton, and Reston stations - a study into a new rail service between Edinburgh and Berwick-Upon-Tweed, including reopening these stations, was submitted to the Scottish Minister for Transport and the service included in the Abellio ScotRail franchise requirement, but delayed to 2018 by shortage of rolling stock. East Lothian Council and the Scottish Government have since agreed how to find the funding but opening before 2021 proved unattainable. Following September 2020's application for planning permission for Reston station, February 2021 brought the good news that it had been granted, followed in March by news that construction work has started. Also in February, project development for East Linton station was the topic of a virtual public meeting. In August the local MP visited Reston. On 7 September 2021 came news that East Lothian Council's planning committee has approved the proposals for East Linton, followed over the 25/26 September weekend by installation of the accessible footbridge at Reston. Preparatory work for East Linton started in November 2021, and in February 2022 construction work began for an anticipated opening in 2023. Services were due to begin calling at Reston's new station in May 2022.
- Magor - a new station would help to reduce road congestion in Newport and the eastern side of Cardiff. Railfuture actively support and are represented in MAGOR, the Magor Action Group On Rail.
- West Wales Parkway, at Felindre, north of Swansea is being advocated; see also Swansea Bay Metro.
- Cullompton (part of Devon Metro)
- Devizes Parkway (Wiltshire)
- Meir (south-west Stoke-on-Trent)
- Wellington (Somerset)
- Beeston Castle and Tarporley station in Cheshire
- St. Anne’s Park station in Bristol
- Ferryhill station in County Durham
- Waverley in South Yorkshire
- a station in the Langport/Somerton area of Somerset.
- Edginswell in Devon
- Thanet Parkway in Kent
- St. Clears in Carmarthenshire
- Haxby, in York (on the York-Malton-Scarborough line, which was consulted by City of York Council in May 2020).
- Deeside, in Flintshire (on the Borderlands line between Bidston and Wrexham) championed by the Welsh Government.
In October 2021 the Chancellor of the Exchequer launched his Autumn Budget and Spending Review which at para. 4.69 says "In addition to the SR21 settlement, the government will continue to progress with the £500 million commitment to restore transport links previously lost in the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. This includes: ... £5 million development funding over the SR period to reopen rail stations in Wellington, Somerset and Cullompton, Devon." and "£650,000 to pay for feasibility work on 13 successful ‘Ideas Fund’ proposals for new lines and stations ... to re-open Corsham station and Stonehouse Bristol Road station."
Some other proposed stations include:
- Wedgwood or Barlaston station reopening - the DfT asked bidders to quote, as a priced option, for reopening either in the West Midlands franchise ITT. Technically these Staffordshire stations, south of Stoke-on-Trent, have never been closed, but services at them have been provided by bus since 2003.
- Okehampton Parkway is seen as part of Devon Metro. East of the town on the A30 two preferred options were identified in April 2018. This followed an announcement by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling of plans to reintroduce a trial rail service between Okehampton and Exeter by the end of 2018, as championed by OkeRAIL. Regular passenger services on The Dartmoor Line as far as Okehampton started on 20 November 2021. An alternative parkway station west of the town, at the junction of the A30 and A386 at Sourton Cross, would require restoring the mainline railway westwards across the Meldon Viaduct.
- Doncaster Sheffield Airport Sheffield City Region, Doncaster Council and the Peel Group (owners of Doncaster Sheffield Airport) submitted an outline business case to the Government for a station at the airport on a new loop from the East Coast Main Line. In October 2020 it was turned down by the DfT as it “does not believe that the proposed scheme will deliver value for money in its current guise”.
- Tavistock (pop.13k) as the principal town in West Devon and part of Devon Metro was understood to be under active consideration by the DfT as part of its Restoring Your Railway 'Accelerating Existing Proposals'. It later became a bid to the third, final round of the Ideas Fund in March 2021. It has been an isolated town since its North station and train services closed in May 1968, and would be re-connected to the rail network at Bere Alston for restored links with Plymouth. Renewed signs of optimism before and during a meeting on 6 April 2022.
- Ashington, Bedlington, Newsham for Blyth, and Northumberland Park will all be new mainline stations opened in phase 1 of the Northumberland Line, expected in 2024; Seaton Delaval and Bebside are planned phase 2 stations. Other aspirations are for new stations at Seghill, Woodhorn, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, and Choppington.
Coming soon
On 28 July 2017 the Department for Transport announced the winners of the second round of the New Stations Fund, with a pot of £16m. This provides up to 75% of the cost for construction of five new stations (Bow Street Ceredigion, Horden County Durham, Portway Parkway Bristol, Reading Green Park, and Warrington West) to improve access to the rail network and create new travel, employment and housing opportunities. Two of these (Horden and Warrington West) were included in the shortlist proposed by Railfuture, and Warrington West has been the first of the five to open, on 15 December 2019. Horden, to restore rail access for Peterlee New Town, opened on 29 June 2020. Bow Street is the first new station of 2021, on Valentine's Day!- Reading Green Park - sponsored by Reading Borough Council, plans submitted in March 2014 and funding approved in November 2014 with construction planned to start in October 2016 but delayed to winter 2017 by GW electrification slippage. Funding has been increased to £14.75m, partly by the second round of the New Stations Fund, to support higher expected passenger numbers. Opening was planned for May 2019; it was confirmed as December 2020 when Reading Borough Council approved revised plans on 12 September 2019, but has been delayed again to late summer 2021 by COVID. Construction progress pictured in mid-May 2020.
- Portway Parkway on the Severn Beach line will serve an existing park and ride site and will reduce congestion on inner Bristol roads. Part of the MetroWest programme, it is part-funded from the second round of the New Stations Fund. Initial work began in August 2017, with planning permission granted in March 2019 and services then due to start using the station in 2020. The project had a boost when on 4 August 2020 it was included in the £13.7m allocated to the West of England Combined Authority in MHCLG's new £900m Getting Building Fund. Pandemic disruption has since deferred a possible opening beyond the December 2021 timetable changes. On 1 February 2022 construction work was announced, with services anticipated in the summer.
- Thanet Parkway - planning approval was given on 2 September 2020 for this new station on the Ashford International - Ramsgate line to serve Discovery Park Enterprise Zone and surrounding business parks in Thanet. Funding of £34.5m has been approved, from Kent County Council, South East Local Enterprise Partnership and the Getting Building Fund. In November 2020 the launch of the National Infrastructure Strategy (p.41) confirmed support from the third round of the New Stations Fund. The station is expected to open in May 2023.
- St. Clears, Carmarthenshire - closed since 1964 and one of four new stations championed by the Welsh Government, in November 2020 the launch of the National Infrastructure Strategy (p.41) confirmed support from the third round of the New Stations Fund.
- Edginswell, part of Devon Metro - on the Riviera line between Newton Abbott and Torquay/Paignton and part of The Torquay Project, with funding from new housing development near Kingskerswell with its new £110m by-pass. A potential start in summer 2018 might have seen a spring 2019 opening, but design changes and associated cost increases interrupted progress. The project had a boost when on 4 August 2020 it was included in the £35.4m allocated to the Heart of the South West LEP in MHCLG's new £900m Getting Building Fund. Then in November 2020 the launch of the National Infrastructure Strategy (p.41) confirmed support from the third round of the New Stations Fund.
- Darlaston, Willenhall, Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell are planned by Transport for the West Midlands for reopening by the end of 2021, in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2022. Progress with Kings Heath and Hazelwell reported in September 2019, for Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell during a test run on the Camp Hill line in March 2020, and rail services planned to start in 2022 at Darlaston and Willenhall were announced in June 2020. In April the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) appointed a new interim rail programme director to work on the development of railway stations. In May plans for Moseley station were submitted to Birmingham City Council. In October 2020 Walsall Council's planning committee approved applications by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) for the new facilities in Willenhall and Darlaston, whilst in March 2021 the WMCA approved funding for Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell stations.
- Barking Riverside - extension of Gospel Oak-Barking London Overground services to new development of 10,800 new homes, opening by December 2022. Design provision has been included for an intermediate station at Renwick Road to serve the planned Castle Green development.
- Brent Cross West in north London is being promoted by Barnet Council. Contractors appointed January 2020, details approved in May, engineering professional services consultancy appointed in June to undertake the multidisciplinary design, and project managers appointed in August, start of foundation piling in October 2020, this new Thameslink station could open in December 2022. In March 2021 came advance news of major track works.
- Dalcross/Inverness Airport, 6 miles east/north-east of Inverness and by the airport, is on track to have a station restored to the area. Closed in 1965, for many years there was a campaign for a rail connection to Inverness Airport. Following a feasibility study a proposal for a new Dalcross station serving the airport was announced - in June 2006! "If built as planned the station could be open by 2008." Network Rail hoped to lodge plans by the end of 2020, with the prospect of the station opening two years later. New developments in the area, such as the new town of Tornagrain with 5k homes under development just a mile to the south-west, will also benefit - and probably helped make the case for the new station in a way which a purely airport station could not. In December 2020 Network Rail submitted a planning application to Highland Council for a new railway station at Inverness Airport. In May 2021 Highland Council's planning committee approved the proposals. In October 2021 platform construction had started, and in December 2021 there was further progress clearly visible.
- Cardiff Parkway is being privately funded and will be located between Cardiff Central and Newport stations to serve a new business park at St. Mellons, Cardiff Hendre Lakes. Outline planning permission was expected to be applied for in Spring 2020, with construction starting later that year. Impressive images of new £120million station released with initial public consultation in November-December 2019. Full plans submitted to Cardiff Council in January 2021. The station is anticipated to open in 2024.
- Marsh Barton, part of Devon Metro - scheme west of Exeter St. Thomas funded by developer and local authority, should help sort out traffic gridlock in this Exeter retail/business park laid out for cars; also relatively close to Royal Devon & Exeter hospital. Design and construction contract placed and some work started February 2016, with completion then expected in 2019. However, changes to design standards and spiralling costs as a result interrupted progress, with revised plans due to be submitted in early-2020. Work restarted in April 2021 and is expected to complete in Winter 2022. Government funding support announced in May 2021.
- Portishead and Pill - as part of MetroWest, new stations to be built on the planned Portishead-Bristol line, for which North Somerset Council agreed in June 2019 to submit an application for the Development Consent Order required. Government funding had been confirmed in April 2019. Metro West (Portishead element only) appeared in the Department for Transport's new Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP) published in October 2019, at the third 'Design' stage of five in the Determine > Develop > Design > Deliver > Deploy process. See page 14 in RNEP. In November 2019 North Somerset Council submitted the DCO application. See Portishead Rail Group presentation Key steps to 2024.
- Kirkby Headbolt Lane, Merseyside. Funding was agreed in June 2020 to design the station for an extension of Merseyrail services, and a consultation held in June 2021. Watch a CGI flythrough of the design. This is one step towards opening a new line to Skelmersdale New Town. Planning permission for the new Headbolt Lane station was granted in December 2021 .
- Cambridge South - linked with Cambridge City Deal and developer funding. Would serve the Addenbrooke's hospital site and the developing base for other high-tech companies, including AstraZeneca. Just after a Network Rail consultation had closed, funding was committed in the March 2020 budget. In June 2020 Network Rail confirmed their preferred location for the station: option 1. A second-round consultation took place in October-November 2020 and Network Rail submitted a TWAO application in June 2021. The Public Inquiry is due to start in early-2022, provisionally on 31 January.
- Elland, Thorpe Park, White Rose, and Leeds Bradford International Airport Parkway (page 25, para. 2.43): these four new stations in the West Yorkshire area were announced in the DfT's Connecting people: a strategic vision for rail (November 2017).
- Public engagement on Elland station began in June 2018, and a final engagement report was published.
- Public engagement on Thorpe Park station took place July-August 2018 and a final engagement report was published. Government funding support announced in May 2021.
- Public engagement on 'Connecting Leeds Bradford airport: Parkway rail station' took place February-April 2019.
- Public engagement on White Rose station took place October-November 2019, and on 7 November 2019 West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Investment Committee considered the Outline Business Case. In January 2020 it was reported that Network Rail had submitted a planning application to Leeds City Council. In June 2020 it was reported that planning permission had been granted. Government funding support was announced in May 2021, with construction starting in 2022 and expected to continue into 2023.
- Leven and Cameron Bridge will be new stations on the re-opened Levenmouth line in Fife, given a green signal by Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Michael Matheson on 8 August 2019. Community engagement sessions were held, online, in December 2020, and ground investigations began in February 2021. In June 2021 plans for the link were unveiled, with opening due 'no later than 2024' so probably that December's timetable changes.
- Beaulieu, Essex - north-east side of Chelmsford, supporting 14k new homes. Anticipated opening 2025/26.
- Flaxby Parkway is on track with the purchase of the former Goldsborough station building. The North Yorkshire station, on the Harrogate-Knaresborough-York line, will serve around 3000 new homes in the Flaxby Park development on the former golf course.
- Golborne (between Wigan North Western and Warrington Bank Quay) has secured Transforming Cities Fund support in early-2021. Its predecessor Golborne South closed to passengers in February 1961.
- New Bermondsey / Surrey Canal Road in Lewisham on the London Overground line between Clapham Junction and Surrey Quays, which opened in December 2012 and included provision for a new station. In November 2021I detailed plans were submitted.
- Oxford Science Park, Littlemore and Oxford Business Park, Cowley are two new stations on the freight-only Cowley branch line from Kennington Junction which may be reopened for passenger train services by 2028.
- Cheadle has secured Town Deal funding to reopen the station on the Mid-Cheshire line by 2024.
Recent successes
2022:- Reston, Berwickshire on the East Coast Main Line opened to passengers on Monday 23 May 2022.
- Soham, Cambridgeshire - with local authority sponsorship, supported by Greater Anglia and Network Rail, in conjunction with planned Soham to Ely track doubling and hourly Ipswich to Peterborough service, opened officially by new Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Mayor and to passengers on 13 December. This new station will give access to the rail network for a population of over 10,000 not rail connected since 1965. In November 2019 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority contracted Network Rail to build the new station. Work on site scheduled to start in 2020, subject to planning permission sought by application submitted in Spring. On 26 June then Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough James Palmer tweeted that The planning application for Soham Railway Station has been approved today by East Cambridgeshire District Council! Work will begin later this year. On 17 August 2020 Network Rail confirmed contract award for construction of the station, expected to open in late-2021. After bank holiday weekend in August 2021 Network Rail reported completion of a key milestone ahead of trains calling at station from December 2021.
- Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station - opened on the planned start date of Monday 20 September. Construction of London's Northern Line Extension, from Kennington on the Southwark/Lambeth boundary via Nine Elms to Battersea Power Station in Wandsworth, started in 2015.
- Bow Street, Ceredigion opened on Sunday 14 February, to act as a park and ride site for Aberystwyth station and help relieve road traffic congestion in Aberystwyth. Part-funded from the second round of the New Stations Fund. Planned completion was March 2020; in January 2020 it was reported that construction has started and expected completion was then reported as late-2020.
- Kintore, Aberdeenshire - pandemic-postponed, opened to passengers on 15 October 2020. Hoped-for start of works in autumn 2018 delayed by six months. In May 2019 Network Rail placed a contract to build the new station, planned to reopen in May 2020, 56 years after closure in December 1964. Between Dyce (for Aberdeen Airport) and Inverurie, supported by Aberdeenshire Council and NESTRANS (North East of Scotland Transport Partnership) with full business case to Scottish Stations Fund. In October 2019, Kintore reopening is given a lift! Two months ahead of planned May 2020 opening, new station gets an electric vehicle boost. Then COVID-19 caused suspension of works.
- Horden - new station on Durham coast line for the 1948-designated Peterlee New Town near the former Horden station closed in 1964, opened 29 June 2020. Sponsored by LEP to support regeneration, part-funded by second round of New Stations Fund. Residents invited to engagement event March 2018. Network Rail submitted plans in autumn 2018, later approved in January 2019. See also Horden Masterplan Map. Works began in May 2019. With contractor appointed, opening expected May 2020. A significant milestone reached, then COVID-19 made opening date uncertain.
- Worcestershire Parkway - DfT approved, local authority sponsored, this station gives access from the city to cross-country services for the first time, as well as interchange between CrossCountry services and Great Western Railway's Cotswold Line services. Contract for design and construction placed in February 2017, construction started autumn 2017, construction nearing completion in mid-October 2019, and opening scheduled for mid-December 2019 timetable but delayed to early-2020 by 'Entry into Service' process. Take a virtual tour courtesy of project managers SLC Rail. Station opening date revealed and confirmed for Sunday 23 February 2020.
- Robroyston - new park and ride station supporting 1600 new homes in north-east Glasgow. Scottish Government met 50% of station's construction costs through Scottish Stations Fund, whilst city council approved the plans. In October 2019 ScotRail confirmed expectations indicating opening with mid-December's timetable change. Here's a 9-second drivers'-eye view on the Edinburgh-Glasgow Queen Street via Falkirk Grahamston route, before opening on Sunday 15 December 2019.
- Warrington West - LEP and developer support, Warrington BC sponsoring, part-funded from second round of New Stations Fund; watch to see where it is. Benefits include supporting the Chapelford Urban Village housing development and reducing congestion on the M62. Opening coincided with the timetable change on Sunday 15 December 2019.
- Meridian Water - opened Monday 3 June 2019 by then-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Heidi Alexander, Deputy Mayor of London for Transport, replacing London's least-used station Angel Road, on the Lea Valley line. See Lea Valley Rail - better access to jobs and homes for the Railfuture-inspired story. Added to film series All the stations. Greater Anglia's timetable for Bishop's Stortford to Stratford from 19 May 2019 confirmed that all-day/every-day half-hourly services would be added in September to June's opening 'preview' weekdays peak periods-only services transferred from Angel Road. The full service operated from Monday 9 September 2019.
- Parkgate (Rotherham) - new tram stop (not a National Rail station) to serve new developments, regeneration and retail centre to the north east of the town centre, provided as part of the Sheffield tram-train trial opened on 25 October 2018 after many delays.
- Maghull North : sponsored by Merseytravel with funding from developer and DfT. Construction started September 2017. Services planned to start May 2018, later confirmed to start on Monday 18 June, and reconfirmed with just days to go!.
- Kenilworth: finally, on Monday 30 April, the first train rolls in after 53 years. It was first announced by Secretary of State in June 2013 and final approval confirmed December 2013, with support from the first round of the New Stations Fund. Opening was originally expected December 2016. The site was secured ready for construction work to begin. Opening was then anticipated in August 2017 but delayed until 10 December 2017 then delayed again at the last minute with various dates being proposed (the latest rumoured to be April 2018) amidst an undignified blame game between the county council and the DfT.
- Cambridge North opened with the new timetable on Sunday 21 May. See local press coverage on opening day, on Monday, and Railfuture's feedback. This station, also known as Cambridge Science Park, will serve a major industrial/business park as well as the St Ives Busway corridor, an area of major population growth. This is an example of making access to the railway easier in an area of changing demographics and economic activity - a complete reversal of the philosophy of most of the last 50 years. It was opened officially by the Transport Secretary on Monday 7 August.
- Ilkeston station finally reopened on Sunday 2 April 2017 after many false dawns. Supported by the first round of the New Stations Fund.
- Low Moor station south of Bradford Interchange opened on 2 April 2017 to serve surrounding residential and industrial areas. It offers through Grand Central trains to London.
- Edinburgh Gateway station was opened officially on Friday 9 December, with the first trains following on Sunday 11 December 2016. Part of the Edinburgh - Glasgow Improvement Programme to electrify lines, it allows rail passengers travelling from the north to reach Edinburgh airport more easily.
- Kirkstall Forge, on the line between Leeds and Bradford, opened on Sunday 19 June 2016 to serve a £400m mixed use development of the Old Forge site.
- Lea Bridge - Railfuture had commissioned a study to make the case for improved services in the Lea Valley including this station. Funded from the first round of the New Stations Fund announced by the Transport Secretary in a Commons Statement, it re-opened with an unofficial ceremony the evening of the timetable change, Sunday 15 May 2016. Monday saw the official opening; see the Railfuture press release.
- Coventry Arena and Bermuda Park opened on Monday 18 January. Originally announced by DfT in April 2014, work started May 2014, and services were planned to start in June 2015, but construction problems delayed completion and provisional opening dates passed amid controversy over whether Coventry Arena station will be open during events at the stadium. Because the route is currently operated by one-carriage trans they are banned from stopping within an hour of an event ending to avoid overcrowding. Long trains, such as charters, are allowed to pick-up passengers then.
- Apperley Bridge station and park-and-ride in Yorkshire opened on Sunday 13 December 2015
- Cranbrook, part of Devon Metro - on the Exeter-Salisbury route, opened with timetable change on Sunday 13 December
- Oxford Parkway first trains on 25 October, formally opened by the Prime Minister on 26 October 2015 as part of Chiltern Railways' Evergreen3 project linking Oxford to London Marylebone, which will also be the first phase of East West Rail. On the same day completely re-built stations at Bicester Village (formerly Bicester Town) and Islip opened. Services extended into Oxford on Sunday 11 December 2016.
- Shawfair, Eskbank, Newtongrange, Gorebridge, Stow, Galashiels, and Tweedbank all opened on 6 September 2015 as part of the Borders Railway. Marking its 5th anniversary, watch Those involved look back at 5 years of Borders Railway, then What Borders Railway has brought to the community, and What next for Borders Railway.
- Newcourt, part of Devon Metro on the Avocet Line between Exmouth and Exeter, supported by the first round of the New Stations Fund - first service on 4 June.
- Ebbw Vale Town opened on 17 May.
2013: Energlyn & Churchill Park - new station opened on 8th December 2013 serving demand for rail travel around Caerphilly, with funding from Welsh European Funding Office; Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway - opened 7 months early on 19 May 2013, adjacent to existing Park & Ride site; Conon Bridge - closed 1960, re-opened 8 February 2013 with services by ScotRail
2012: Fishguard & Goodwick
2011: Armadale, Caldercruix, Drumgelloch (Airdrie - Bathgate line); Buckshaw Parkway, Southend Airport
2010: Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch High Street (East London Line Extension); Blackridge (Airdrie - Bathgate line); Sampford Courtenay, Okehampton (summer Sunday service only)
2009: Corby (closed 1966, previously reopened 1987 then closed again 1990), East Midlands Airport Parkway, Imperial Wharf, Laurencekirk, Stratford International
2008: Ebbw Vale Parkway, Llanhilleth, Newbridge, Crosskeys, Risca and Pontymister, Rogerstone (Ebbw Vale line); Alloa, Aylesbury Vale Parkway, Heathrow Terminal 5, Mitcham Eastfields, Shepherds Bush, Stone (services suspended 2004)
2007: Coleshill Parkway (on Birmingham-Nuneaton line), Ebbsfleet International (for international services; domestic services started 2009), St Pancras International, Llanharan
2006: Liverpool South Parkway
2005: Larkhall, Merryton, Chatelherault, Kelvindale (formerly Dawsholm) (Larkhall line reopening); Gartcosh, Rhoose, Llanwit Major, Glasshoughton.
Interchanges
Where lines cross, Railfuture argue 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 and opened officially on 12 August 2015.There is potential for new or improved interchanges at:
- Brixton
- Brockley
- Dorking
- Lewisham
- West Hampstead