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Croxley rail link additioanl funding.
Basil Jet wrote:
According to this the new Lea Bridge station will cost £6.5 million. 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. These prices are insane. How could reinstating Lea Bridge station on land which is presumably still owned by the railway cost as much as buying 14 average London houses and the land they stand on? Southend Airport station is quite nice with its enclosed footbridge and lifts on both sides, but how could it cost as much as 78 average Southend houses and the land they stand on? Somebody is getting very rich here, and I bet it isn't the men with bricks in their hands. Yes, I know, these prices are astonishing, if routine these days. It's why NR brought in modular stations, and Chiiltern decided to build Warwick Parkway itself, for much less than NR said it would cost: "The managing director of Chiltern Trains, on BBC's Panorama, had asked Network Rail to quote for a new station for Warwick Parkway. Network Rail said it would cost £13 million. The managing director thought this was a lot of money. He went to the train companies and the station was built for £5.5 million." From: http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.u...#ixzz37EvFsA00 I don't know if TfL is any more efficient at building new stations than NR. I think one aspect that's particularly expensive in this country is to build new stations on in-service lines, so the two all-new stations on the Croxley line should be cheaper than they would be if the line were already in use. |
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