Kidderminster Railway Station
The project at Kidderminster Railway Station is a £3.575million
project to upgrade the facilities at the station to the standards
rail travellers expect in the 21st Century. The County Council is
working in partnership with Network Rail, the Severn Valley
Railway, Kidderminster Railway Museum, bus and rail operating
companies and Wyre Forest District Council.
There are four parts to the project.
- A new station building and improved passenger facilities
- A new layout on the station forecourt with improved facilities
for bus services
- An improved walking connection from the new station building to
the Severn Valley Railway station building
- Changes to the entrance junction to the railway station from
the A448 Comberton Hill
The objectives are to provide a facility to integrate bus and
rail services in Kidderminster; improve information on bus and rail
services available at the railway station and provide for all modes
of travel (e.g. bus, rail, cycle, walk, taxi and park &
ride).
The facility will link with developments taking place in
Kidderminster town centre and provide a suitable gateway to the
town. All elements of the scheme will work with the heritage
setting of the station area created by the Severn Valley
Railway.
The programme began with construction of the forecourt works in
June 2009 with a view to have these complete by Christmas 2010.
Construction of the station building will then begin in January
2011 and all works should be complete in the summer of 2011.
29th JANUARY 2010
This week we have mostly been considering
large Lorries carrying locomotives and other heritage railway
rolling stock. The Severn Valley Railway regularly loans out
heritage rolling stock to other railways and indeed borrows such
trains from other preserved railways. Due to cost and the
administration surrounding use of the national rail network it is
simpler for these moves to use the highway.
This means at Kidderminster, where we wish to
improve the entrance junction to the station we have to pay
particular attention to how these moves take place when carrying
out our design. To make the design as safe as possible for
pedestrians there is pressure to reduce the width of the entrance
junction to make it easier to cross the road. However that
lorry has to get out!
