Salford Central station will be closed for two months in 2024 for a £10 million upgrade, including accessibility improvements and new Bee Network branding.
Salford Central station will close for two months during a £10m revamp next year. Trains will not stop at the station from February 10 to April 21 while work takes place to modernise the building, with plans for a new ticket office, accessibility upgrades, and Bee Network branding. Closures are also planned on April 27 and May 4, with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Network Rail warning passengers to expect disruption on their journeys.
Rail tickets will be accepted on Bee Network buses between Salford Crescent, Salford Central, and city centre stations including Manchester Oxford Road during the two-month closure and on specified weekends, TfGM said. Work at Salford Central will see new accessible toilets built, alongside improvements to the platform ramps, and the addition of braille maps. New customer information points and signs will also be put up to help passengers with onward journeys on the region’s transport network. Andy Burnham said the work is part of a plan to create better links between bus and train travel across Greater Manchester, with eight railway lines set to join the Bee Network in the next four years. 'These improvements are a big step forward on our journey to bringing commuter rail lines into the Bee Network by 2028, helping connect more people to new opportunities and driving economic growth across the city-region,' he added. Accessibility campaigner Nathaneil Yates, from Stockport, welcomed the upgrades but said 'there is still a long way to go to improving access at train stations so it is the norm for anyone using them.' Work is also taking place at Salford Crescent station next year where a third platform will be built, with closures planned across several weekends between March and September 2025. This is aimed at clearing ‘traffic jams’ and ‘congestion’ at the station which had almost 1.2m entries and exits in 2022/2
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