OMEGA: New station at Chapelford by 2016 (From Warrington Guardian)

Quote: "I think if we put a new, all singing, all dancing railway station in that area, with a car park to offer a park and ride facility, people will get the train to Liverpool and Manchester and take some traffic off the roads.”

hmm its standing room only from Warrington to Manchester on rush hour trains....you'll have to build a bigger platform if you want to increase numbers.

frustrated passengers are often told by rail staff that the reason for many people having to endure standing the entire journey (whilst paying a not so cheap full fair i might add) is due to the length of the platform. Meaning they cant add any additional carriages if they wanted too....

anyway good look on the all singing dancing station by 2016......its taken over a hundred years for Central and Bank quay to barely muster a whistle and limp.....

A new station built within three years!

We are talking Warrington B.C. & Network Rail here, neither noted for their speed of delivery, let alone a third party contractor to build it!!

As long as it dosen't go through my house or garden in beautiful, posh Westy, i am not bothered. Stuff everyone else i don't care.

Why not expand the exisitng Station in Sankey and save some money or is this another Labour plan to spend money we don't have?

The Maestro wrote:
Why not expand the exisitng Station in Sankey and save some money or is this another Labour plan to spend money we don't have?

There isn`t enough room for parking at Sankey and I think a new station at Chapleford could see its closure.

It`s called improvement, but not for everyone!!

There's plenty of room to expand the existing platforms, and not far away is a field that could be used for a car park, that could be seen as an improvment to the existing facilities

willlie wrote:
As long as it dosen't go through my house or garden in beautiful, posh Westy, i am not bothered. Stuff everyone else i don't care.

Haha posh westy you having a laugh!

the part where the line goes past chapelford is quite deep, one side is a new housing estate which i assume has already been sold for houses and on the otherside is a road which is very close to the railway, i dont see where the station would go nevermind the carpark unless it goes further down into sankey valley park, then it wont be in chapelford would it.... just spend the money on sankey station, and buy out the taxi rank & tatto shop and make the carpark bigger, even a few levels up, surely this makes more sense??

Mr or Mrs Churchhill what's wrong with beautiful, stunning, posh, classy - Westy ? It is better than Stockton Heath Lymm, Great Sankey, Penketh, Birchwood, Padgate, Fearnhead to name a few.

I think they should build a new train station at Westy because it's Warrington's prime tourist destination. We have got burn't out cars, cannabis farms, boarded up houses, criminals everywhere, cats and dogs hang around in gangs and with no tails, untaxed and uninsured motor vehicles. What more can you ask for ?

widnesman wrote:

The Maestro wrote:
Why not expand the exisitng Station in Sankey and save some money or is this another Labour plan to spend money we don't have?

There isn`t enough room for parking at Sankey and I think a new station at Chapleford could see its closure.

It`s called improvement, but not for everyone!!

Simply there should be no need to have further parking and sankey if up dated would undoubtedly be more satisfactory. Prospective passengers should follow the good example of the current passengers and walk to the station, take a trip on a local ecological bus, take you bike to work or for business visitors take a local taxi. Costs saved and the local economy is supported and no some out of town organisation. Sincerely and without any bias, which political party had a mandate to improve or to sustain the local transport infrastructure and the local or regional economy?

Borrowing £30 million to replace defunct or badly maintained street lights across the borough and now chipping in half the estimated £7 million for a new railway station. Suddenly there seems to be money to spare, but we still need to make staff redundant.

widnesman wrote:

The Maestro wrote:
Why not expand the exisitng Station in Sankey and save some money or is this another Labour plan to spend money we don't have?

There isn`t enough room for parking at Sankey and I think a new station at Chapleford could see its closure.

It`s called improvement, but not for everyone!!

What need is there for more parking spaces at Sankey Station? Leave the Car at home and let the local Bus and Train Services take the strain. Possible to even walk to the station or use a bicycle instead.

willlie wrote:
As long as it dosen't go through my house or garden in beautiful, posh Westy, i am not bothered. Stuff everyone else i don't care.

Then, why bother commenting?

willlie wrote:
I think they should build a new train station at Westy because it's Warrington's prime tourist destination. We have got burn't out cars, cannabis farms, boarded up houses, criminals everywhere, cats and dogs hang around in gangs and with no tails, untaxed and uninsured motor vehicles. What more can you ask for ?

Ever thought of doing something about it! Not really bothered about it then? You, happy in your own pit? Perhaps from the spin you have propagated, it appears that you might just contribute to the place you so describe. Come out of your or as you have describe, your neighbours cannabis fuelled, alcohol infused and criminal world and do something positive in YOUR community then!

pioneer1 wrote:
the part where the line goes past chapelford is quite deep, one side is a new housing estate which i assume has already been sold for houses and on the otherside is a road which is very close to the railway, i dont see where the station would go nevermind the carpark unless it goes further down into sankey valley park, then it wont be in chapelford would it.... just spend the money on sankey station, and buy out the taxi rank & tatto shop and make the carpark bigger, even a few levels up, surely this makes more sense??

I believe that the proposed location is near to the bridge at the end of Sycamore Lane, and used in the past to gain access to RAF Burtonwood/USA Army Airforce Base in addition to a track side path from Belmont Crescent to Burtonwood, Road used mainly by locals and Railway workers. Once you have crossed the bridge there is plenty of land to use for a new station and its infrastructure, additionally the current developer has, I believe agreed to the possibility of contributing to cost of the project. I also understand that this would have been a good access point for a path to take parents and children to the new Chapelfold Primary School when Sycamore Lane Primary School Closes, but needless to say it hasn't happened. I have noticed that someone has reinstated the pathway surface from Burtonwood Road to the Sycamore Lane Bridge, perhaps for the parents and children, although there would be suitable schools much nearer to some of their homes.

They should build a wall around everywhere in Warrington except stunningly beautiful Westy to keep all the dodgy low life, pond life criminals in. Everyone outside Westy is one of the above !

You are our Westy, our only Westy, no one will take our Westy away, you never notice how much we love our posh Westy ! Come on Westy, Come on Westy !

willlie wrote:
You are our Westy, our only Westy, no one will take our Westy away, you never notice how much we love our posh Westy ! Come on Westy, Come on Westy !

On the Magic roundabout again I see.

willlie wrote:
They should build a wall around everywhere in Warrington except stunningly beautiful Westy to keep all the dodgy low life, pond life criminals in. Everyone outside Westy is one of the above !

Build a wall around all off warrington but Westy, great idea, keep the locals Westy out of the rest of town, you best suggestion so far

SAC_in_Warrington wrote:

pioneer1 wrote:
the part where the line goes past chapelford is quite deep, one side is a new housing estate which i assume has already been sold for houses and on the otherside is a road which is very close to the railway, i dont see where the station would go nevermind the carpark unless it goes further down into sankey valley park, then it wont be in chapelford would it.... just spend the money on sankey station, and buy out the taxi rank & tatto shop and make the carpark bigger, even a few levels up, surely this makes more sense??

I believe that the proposed location is near to the bridge at the end of Sycamore Lane, and used in the past to gain access to RAF Burtonwood/USA Army Airforce Base in addition to a track side path from Belmont Crescent to Burtonwood, Road used mainly by locals and Railway workers. Once you have crossed the bridge there is plenty of land to use for a new station and its infrastructure, additionally the current developer has, I believe agreed to the possibility of contributing to cost of the project. I also understand that this would have been a good access point for a path to take parents and children to the new Chapelfold Primary School when Sycamore Lane Primary School Closes, but needless to say it hasn't happened. I have noticed that someone has reinstated the pathway surface from Burtonwood Road to the Sycamore Lane Bridge, perhaps for the parents and children, although there would be suitable schools much nearer to some of their homes.

all of that land has already been bough to build houses on, the new estate will go right upto the railway line, this is why i am asking where the location is as its already been used in plans, i just feel that to put a station at the end of sycamore lane which will be literally 800m from sankey station is stupid...

pioneer1 wrote:

SAC_in_Warrington wrote:

pioneer1 wrote:
the part where the line goes past chapelford is quite deep, one side is a new housing estate which i assume has already been sold for houses and on the otherside is a road which is very close to the railway, i dont see where the station would go nevermind the carpark unless it goes further down into sankey valley park, then it wont be in chapelford would it.... just spend the money on sankey station, and buy out the taxi rank & tatto shop and make the carpark bigger, even a few levels up, surely this makes more sense??

I believe that the proposed location is near to the bridge at the end of Sycamore Lane, and used in the past to gain access to RAF Burtonwood/USA Army Airforce Base in addition to a track side path from Belmont Crescent to Burtonwood, Road used mainly by locals and Railway workers. Once you have crossed the bridge there is plenty of land to use for a new station and its infrastructure, additionally the current developer has, I believe agreed to the possibility of contributing to cost of the project. I also understand that this would have been a good access point for a path to take parents and children to the new Chapelfold Primary School when Sycamore Lane Primary School Closes, but needless to say it hasn't happened. I have noticed that someone has reinstated the pathway surface from Burtonwood Road to the Sycamore Lane Bridge, perhaps for the parents and children, although there would be suitable schools much nearer to some of their homes.

all of that land has already been bough to build houses on, the new estate will go right upto the railway line, this is why i am asking where the location is as its already been used in plans, i just feel that to put a station at the end of sycamore lane which will be literally 800m from sankey station is stupid...

The only other possible site is that wooded area adjacent to the Burtonwood Road Bridge and formally part of the Military Base. I remember there being an engine shed located there, that housed the shunting engine for the rail network on the Base. There is room on both sides of the track available here if the Old Play Ground is used. Not sure that this will bade well with the current neighbouring residents though.

If they build a new train station in glorious Westy, i will build a Cannabis Farm there which will be lucrative business for me. All the commuters will smell it when they are coming and going.

widnesman wrote:
A new station built within three years!

We are talking Warrington B.C. & Network Rail here, neither noted for their speed of delivery, let alone a third party contractor to build it!!

Don't worry the Planning Dept. are on the case

willlie wrote:
Mr or Mrs Churchhill what's wrong with beautiful, stunning, posh, classy - Westy ? It is better than Stockton Heath Lymm, Great Sankey, Penketh, Birchwood, Padgate, Fearnhead to name a few.

Im just sayin, it aint as posh as Orford thats all ;)

The plans made up by David Wilson Homes make provision for the new station just over the current bridge as described earlier

chumhill wrote:

willlie wrote:
Mr or Mrs Churchhill what's wrong with beautiful, stunning, posh, classy - Westy ? It is better than Stockton Heath Lymm, Great Sankey, Penketh, Birchwood, Padgate, Fearnhead to name a few.

Im just sayin, it aint as posh as Orford thats all ;)

I think it is a toss up between the Longford and Hume area and the Canal side location of Dallam and Bewsey. They are all much more salubrious than the others already mentioned by messieurs chumhill and our little willlie.

SAC_in_Warrington wrote:

chumhill wrote:

willlie wrote: Mr or Mrs Churchhill what's wrong with beautiful, stunning, posh, classy - Westy ? It is better than Stockton Heath Lymm, Great Sankey, Penketh, Birchwood, Padgate, Fearnhead to name a few.

Im just sayin, it aint as posh as Orford thats all ;)

I think it is a toss up between the Longford and Hume area and the Canal side location of Dallam and Bewsey. They are all much more salubrious than the others already mentioned by messieurs chumhill and our little willlie.

Agreed! I aspire to move out of orford to one of these dream destinations.

Willlie......they will never build it in westy......it might flood (apparently) !