Aedas wins £2.5m South Yorks station design brief
Filed 30/10/07
Architectural practice Aedas has been selected to design a £2.5m railway station at Rotherham in South Yorkshire.
The brief - for South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and Yorkshire Forward - will see the existing station upgraded to match similarly improved stations in Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield.
Rotherham station is included in regeneration body Yorkshire Forward’s Urban Renaissance programme and will gain a passenger lounge, retail space and a travel and information centre.
Melanie Dei Rossi, principal project Manager of SYPTE said: “The catalyst for the change within Rotherham has been Yorkshire Forward’s Urban Renaissance programme which has set out a new agenda for the future of the region’s towns. Developing the railway station is going to be an important part of Rotherham’s regeneration.”
Work on remodelling the station is expected to take place in 2009/10 and will be the first phase of a four-phase programme. Future phases will include the provision of lifts to the platforms, dualling the track access to increase train frequency and lengthening the platforms.
Aedas project manager Alistair Branch said: “The redeveloped station will present a dramatic and architecturally impressive gateway for visitors and daily users. It will provide passengers with a fantastic improvement in waiting facilities, while also upgrading links to the town centre.”
Filed 30/10/07
Architectural practice Aedas has been selected to design a £2.5m railway station at Rotherham in South Yorkshire.
The brief - for South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and Yorkshire Forward - will see the existing station upgraded to match similarly improved stations in Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield.
Rotherham station is included in regeneration body Yorkshire Forward’s Urban Renaissance programme and will gain a passenger lounge, retail space and a travel and information centre.
Melanie Dei Rossi, principal project Manager of SYPTE said: “The catalyst for the change within Rotherham has been Yorkshire Forward’s Urban Renaissance programme which has set out a new agenda for the future of the region’s towns. Developing the railway station is going to be an important part of Rotherham’s regeneration.”
Work on remodelling the station is expected to take place in 2009/10 and will be the first phase of a four-phase programme. Future phases will include the provision of lifts to the platforms, dualling the track access to increase train frequency and lengthening the platforms.
Aedas project manager Alistair Branch said: “The redeveloped station will present a dramatic and architecturally impressive gateway for visitors and daily users. It will provide passengers with a fantastic improvement in waiting facilities, while also upgrading links to the town centre.”
Any local/EMCF feedback yet?
My initial thoughts:
Rotherham station is already on NCN6 and has reasonable - not great - cycle links to the town centre, which has suffered more from the imposition of Meadowpool than Sheffield. NCN6 could be improved in the area - it suffered heavily on the floods. Rotherham has yet to complete the link to Aldwarke - a stroppy boatyard owner is refusing to allow a right of way & Rham are fighting shy of a CPO.
A long-term ambition has to be a route alongside the River Don linking back to the NCN at Conisborough.
The station itself has dual tracks but the connecting line from the MML to the Rother Valley line is single - this was all done in a hurry and on the cheap when Masborough station was closed.
Rotherham has no CTC RTR so I'll have to take it on.
My initial thoughts:
Rotherham station is already on NCN6 and has reasonable - not great - cycle links to the town centre, which has suffered more from the imposition of Meadowpool than Sheffield. NCN6 could be improved in the area - it suffered heavily on the floods. Rotherham has yet to complete the link to Aldwarke - a stroppy boatyard owner is refusing to allow a right of way & Rham are fighting shy of a CPO.
A long-term ambition has to be a route alongside the River Don linking back to the NCN at Conisborough.
The station itself has dual tracks but the connecting line from the MML to the Rother Valley line is single - this was all done in a hurry and on the cheap when Masborough station was closed.
Rotherham has no CTC RTR so I'll have to take it on.
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