New train station proposed for Rotherham
5 February 2025 20:32
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Rotherham Gateway Station is expected to be open by 2031 and will reintroduce mainline trains for the first time since the 1980s.
The station will be located at Parkgate and will have both rail and tram services.
An accompanying building would house the station facilities and a business centre.
Improvements to walking and cycling routes would also connect the station to the town centre via Effingham Street.
The business case for the station is in its final stages and an update was given to Rotherham Council earlier this week.
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority later on this month and to the Department for Transport by May.
Not looking forward to getting to and from this place in the winter months. Likely to end up windswept, desolate and plagued by anti-social behaviour, just like Rotherham Bus Interchange. There’s also the spectre of it, again, becoming one of the uk’s longest construction projects, with all the disruption and delays that will entail, just like the current rail station was not so long ago. That became so bad that even our old jailbird MP had to intervene. Planned and delivered by people who neither live in nor care about the town, trust me. Similar trajectory to the central library debacle, for those of us with long memories.
By Jonny B. Goode