Stamford Railway Station - Development

Development

Birmingham - Stansted Airport Service
Legend
Birmingham New Street
Water Orton
to Derby
Coleshill Parkway
Nuneaton
West coast main line
Hinckley
Narborough
South Wigston
Syston
Leicester
Midland main line
Melton Mowbray
Oakham
to London St Pancras.
Stamford
Peterborough
East coast main line
Whittlesea
March
Manea
to Kings Lynn
to Norwich
Ely
to Ipswich
Waterbeach
to Ipswich
Cambridge
to London Kings Cross
Shelford
Whittlesford
Great Chesterford
Audley End
Stansted Airport
to London Liverpool Street

Central Trains undertook internal modifications and refurbishment to the ticket office and booking hall towards the end of their franchise. Network Rail also invested £500,000 on refurbishment of the station building, modern lighting, overbridge and foot crossing to further update the station in late 2007.

In late July 2008, Network Rail was granted listed building consent to make alterations to the Grade II listed station building to enable larger freight trains of W10 loading gauge to travel on the Peterborough to Nuneaton route. This will involve changes to the platform alignment and the platform canopy and a temporary platform will be provided during the works.

It is planned that both platforms will be extended by up to 5 metres by no later than 2012.

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