Friday 21 Sep 2007
£500,000 INVESTMENT FOR STAMFORD STATION
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Passengers will soon be enjoying a more pleasant environment at Stamford as Network Rail starts a £500,000 programme to clean up the town’s historic station. The makeover of the Grade 2 listed station includes refurbishing the footbridge, improved lighting and a general clean up of the station buildings and platform canopies. Mark Tarry, Network Rail Area General Manager East Midlands said: “Network Rail is committed to providing the best possible environment for passengers and this project will improve the appearance of this historic station for many years to come.” Central Trains, which manages the station, also recently began improvement works, including a new larger ticket window with split counter for disabled access, a sympathetic refurbishment of the ticket office and mahogany panelling in the booking hall. Mike Haigh, Business Development Director at Central Trains, said: "We’re sure that passengers that use Stamford Station will have noticed the refurbishment and loving restoration of some of the features from the Edwardian period and beforehand. "We are committed to making facilities better for our passengers right up to end of the Central Trains’ franchise in November." The station will remain open for passengers throughout the project and a temporary footbridge will be built to allow passengers access to both platforms while the existing footbridge is refurbished. The project is due to be completed by early December.
Notes to editors
Work starts on site on Monday 1 October and the temporary footbridge will be installed during the week commencing 13 October The station footbridge will be refurbished, repainted and strengthened to bring it up to modern standards. As the structure itself is Grade 2 listed and is situated in a conservation area, the visual appearance of the bridge will remain unchanged New lighting will be installed in the footbridge area and underneath the station canopies to bring it up to modern standards The platform canopies and roof will be repaired and repainted while repairs will also be made to the roof and brickwork of the station buildings. In addition the barrow crossing at the station and parts of the platforms will be resurfaced
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