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New station successes

The list below shows new stations served by existing services and routes. Many of the stations listed below were funded through three rounds of the New Stations Fund:

  • Round 1 provided £20m in June 2013 for Pye Corner, Newcourt, Lea Bridge, Ilkeston and Kenilworth
  • Round 2 provided £16m in 2017 for Bow Street, Horden, Portway Parkway, Reading Green Park, and Warrington West
  • Round 3 was launched with £20m in February 2020 for bids to be submitted by June 2020. Successful schemes were Torquay Gateway (Edginswell), Thanet Parkway, St Clears, Haxby, Deeside Parkway. An additional £15 million was allocated in May 2021 for Marsh Barton, White Rose and Thorpe Park. So far only Thanet Parkway and Marsh Barton have opened.
For new stations on new lines, see Links Success.

2025
  • Beaulieu Park on the Great Eastern Main Line north-east of Chelmsford [/article1468-Business-hears-Railfuture#threadId534|progressed to opening on Sunday 26 October, supporting 14k new homes.
  • Blyth Bebside, the Northumberland Line's fourth of six new stations, opened on Sunday 19 October.
  • Newsham (pronounced 'news-um'!), the first station in the 200th anniversary year of the railways as we know them today and appropriately in the North East, opened on Monday 17 March.
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2023
2022:
2021:
  • 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 gives access to the rail network for a population of over 10,000 not rail connected since 1965.
  • 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.
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2016:
  • 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.
2015:
  • Rochester station opened on a new site, 500m west of its 1892 predecessor, on Sunday 13 December 2015.
  • 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.
  • 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.
2014:
2013:
2012:
  • Fishguard & Goodwick
2011:
2010:
  • 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
2008:
  • Aylesbury Vale Parkway
  • Heathrow Terminal 5
  • Mitcham Eastfields
  • Shepherds Bush
  • Stone (services suspended 2004)
2007:
  • Coleshill Parkway (on Birmingham-Nuneaton line)
  • Llanharan
2006:
  • Liverpool South Parkway
2005:
  • Gartcosh
  • Glasshoughton