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Sunderland railway station.


Brett said:
I posted it earlier on in the thread , feels they more then happy for them to sit empty over a year on .

Just makes no sense

It hasn't changed , network rail have absolutely no interest in doing anything

Almost like the empty units have just been forgot about

Shame the echo don't care as really this should be a story ran
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It's a crap location that's why. There's plenty units outside the station with better footfall and don't have the issues of being stuck in a kiosk.

It has all the same problems with the portico in Newcastle Station, anyone sane wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

Let's be honest 99% of people are going straight down the stairs in it's current form.
 
Brett said:
Network rail didn't want to particularly do anything with Sunderland station at all, bet most of it came from government grants.

I honestly believe network rail have forgotten about the empty units
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The money all came from Goverment Grants.

I wonder if there has been a massive over run in costs, because part of the plans included a multi-story car park on holmeside to replace the civic centre car park and that was changed to a ground level car park.
 
Thank you for getting in touch,

Sunderland Station is managed by Northern, you can find their website here:
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or call them on 08002006060.

I got in touch with network rail and they reckon Northern manage the station?
 
SAFCTEES said:
Thank you for getting in touch,

Sunderland Station is managed by Northern, you can find their website here:
You must be logged on to see external links
or call them on 08002006060.

I got in touch with network rail and they reckon Northern manage the station?
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here is the issue, Northern Manage the station, Network Rail own the station, and Sunderland Council pushed for the grant and rebuild of the station
 
Zimba said:
It's a crap location that's why. There's plenty units outside the station with better footfall and don't have the issues of being stuck in a kiosk.

It has all the same problems with the portico in Newcastle Station, anyone sane wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

Let's be honest 99% of people are going straight down the stairs in it's current form.
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My guess is that the cost of renting a unit in the station probably puts a lot of people off. The way these things go they are likely to be unrealistically high.
 
Kubicki85 said:
Really disappointed with how things have turned out so far. It needs plants, artwork, filled units, and better display boards. I was hopeful that things would improve over time, but unfortunately, they haven’t.
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Yep. So much potential lost. Now unfortunately it looks like it'll go the way the doomsayers said. A big glass greenhouse covered in seagull shit.
 
You'd think they'd employ a window cleaner like. Walked past a couple of weeks ago and some scummy wanker had launched a drink at one of the doors. Went past again last week and it was still the same.
 
Lord Potts said:
My guess is that the cost of renting a unit in the station probably puts a lot of people off. The way these things go they are likely to be unrealistically high.
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It’s not the cost of renting the unit. It’s the cost of the business rates in that area of town that’s the real deterrent.

I know this first hand, because I wanted to set a business up around there a few years back.
 
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Go on lads and lasses put this bloke to work. You've all expressed concerns and complaints. Tell the MP, get him to do some work
 
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