Railtrack don't plan to revamp the station - leased to North Western Trains - until April 2000.

In the meantime the firm, which owns the station and is responsible for the line, has promised to make short-term improvements to tidy it up.

"We are currently asking the operating company how they feel the station can be improved immediately," a spokesman told the Knutsford Guardian this week.

"We will do things like removing any grafitti and do a general clean-up."

At a recent site visit with a Railtrack employee town Clr Jennifer Holbrook was told that the broken roof windows and lamp posts would soon be repaired.

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