Redandwhitedust
Striker
Ha ha, so I hear. I live up that way now. Pie in the sky from our new MP I reckon
Juat announced that its been passed for a feasibility study according to my dad.
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Sunderland railway station.
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Juat announced that its been passed for a feasibility study according to my dad.
AB22 Easy Tiger
Heaven Branch
There was more than station in Sunderland
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monkeytassle
Striker
Kinds cross refurb cost 500m as a benchmark
AB22 Easy Tiger
Heaven Branch
16 million gets you bugger all.
It's a hole. Literally and Figuratively. 16m might get a slightly nicer building on top of the hole but it will still be a hole. When TfL need to upgrade the buildings and holes their underground runs in they start at £100m or so then beg for a grant when it hits 3 times that.
Wilfy
Striker
So are most tbh.
Depends if the contract goes to a civil engineering firm or a Tory donor surely?
I read up on it and was totally wrong. I didn’t know the first passenger station was down Hendon near the welcome tavern.
Darlo1973
Striker
The London Bridge and Reading rebuilds were about a billion each but both are far better than they used to be
Sunderland station must be one the grimmest in the country - especially one for a major city - but £16m is only going to pay for a new coat of paint.
Think the platforms are still there.
millfield ftm
Midfield
Replace it with a pub called the railway, the station etc , ideally full of scrotes and wasters in Keeping with other station pubs
There was one there originally before the present station was constructed.
monkeytassle
Striker
Old London Bridge was a disaster mind. I used that for best part of 10y and it was like visiting crowtree twice a day
Darlo1973
Striker
Or for £50m you could have Cambridge North
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The proposed Cambridge South is looking like being £200m.
I wonder how much it would cost to build a new station at the civic, where the line splits? It would give four platforms for a start, and would have easier access for cars.
The station site could be then sold off to a developer, and the money used against the cost of the new build.
(Not going to happen of course, but might be better than a lick of paint to a grim underground experience.)
The station site could be then sold off to a developer, and the money used against the cost of the new build.
(Not going to happen of course, but might be better than a lick of paint to a grim underground experience.)
mackem35
Winger
Twenty million iirc but that was a few year back so 16 million is very little for a railway station - maybe its just a refurb of Burger King ?
AB22 Easy Tiger
Heaven Branch
A bit more perspective
New £10.55m Horden train station plan approved
Horden cost 10.5 million
New £10.55m Horden train station plan approved
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Horden cost 10.5 million
