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Sunderland Central Railway Station

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I thought the council had bought the old TJ hughes building which is been used by poundland, this was for the new station.
 

citybythesea said:
I would say it's more feasible in the long run rather than refurbishing the existing one every subsequent year! Yes to a separate station...

It was the site of a former train station before the current station was built

Have the station after the curve i.e. pointing south...after all that's where the trains will be going
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I didn’t realise there was once a station on the civic centre site, will try and find some info on it. Just on a practical issue do the line heading directly south that run past the civic not run the metro and those which bend east under Mowbray park are the national rail route ie grand central?

I think the biggest issue is that due to the number of services which run from Sunderland that a large or separate station just wouldn’t stack up for network rail (hence why there has been little motivation from them to do anything). I’m guessing they see that the various stations in Sunderland are predominantly for metro services.

I understand that there have been numerous plans in the past for a new station, but that Funding or agreement has never been reached.
Brett said:
I thought the council had bought the old TJ hughes building which is been used by poundland, this was for the new station.
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I’m guessing any conversion will be subject to agreement with Network rail. Only firm plans or agreement is for the existing station upgrade assuming they get central government funding.
 
Osklen said:
I didn’t realise there was once a station on the civic centre site, will try and find some info on it. Just on a practical issue do the line heading directly south that run past the civic not run the metro and those which bend east under Mowbray park are the national rail route ie grand central?
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There's a blue plaque there (or used to be). Its just slightly north of where the existing line crosses Holmeside. This is an interesting website and you can see how the station ended up like it did. Even as recently as the early 90's there was at least some daylight coming into it. Should have stopped and left it at its 1960's stage but I suspect the development of the expanding town centre took it over.

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