In message , at 11:40:56 on
Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Recliner remarked:
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?

In both cases the track was there before - the two fast and two slow
lines through EMD (I misremembered - there's actually three platforms
although one is much shorter), and the two fast and one siding/loop at
Science Park. But a certain amount of re-positioning to fit the island
platform is no doubt required in both cases.

Yes, the track would have to be slewed for sure to fit the island
platform in. Were new points and crossovers needed as well?

Not as far as I know.
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Roland Perry