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[email protected] · July 12th 14, 11:18 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Recliner) wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
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at 15:53:32 on Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Recliner
remarked:
The Lea Bridge station is a reopening, using the existing platforms. A
better comparison might be the all-new station at Southend Airport,
which cost £16m in 2011.

East Midlands Airport station cost £25m and Cambridge Northstowe Parkway
(officially called "Science Park") is going to cost £26m.

Common features are that each have one platform plus one island, large
car parks and new access roads, and are built on out-of-town brown field
sites. The costs are therefore consistent with Southend Airport.

Presumably they needed new track work to accommodate three platform faces?
That would certainly push the costs up, compared to new stations that just
have facing platforms on to existing tracks.

A certain amount of the track work and signalling already exists for
Cambridge Science Park's bay platform, perhaps surprisingly. They are left
overs of the former St Ives branch, including what will become the starting
signal(!).

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Colin Rosenstiel