NR NR/GN/CIV/100/08 ISSUE 1 PDF

This document offers guidance to promoters of railway station enhancements and of new stations. This guidance is for third parties who may wish to promote a station enhancement and/or wish to consider funding a station enhancement, either in part or in full. This guidance is also for Network Rail staff who engage with third parties which are promoting station enhancements. This guidance does not address how to raise investment funding, how to develop an investment case, or how to design and then construct a station enhancement. There are additional resources that provide such guidance.

The purpose of this guidance is to help facilitate timely and cost-effective promotion and delivery of enhancements to the station estate. 

Guidance is provided on:

→ The processes and procedures that should be followed to develop a station enhancement proposal.

→ The process to be followed to take an enhancement proposal from conception to delivery.

→ How and when to engage with Network Rail.

Background information on rail industry structure, policy, processes and standards is also provided.

In the context of this guidance, a station enhancement is an enhancement to an existing railway station. This includes:

→ Measures that increase the capacity and capability of a station to cater for additional or reconfigured rail services, for instance new platforms. 

→ Measures that address circulatory capacity and station access, such as remodelling entrances or providing additional entrances. 

→ Enhanced facilities such as retail, ticket offices or toilets that improve passengers’ experiences. 

→ Better integration of stations into local walking, cycling, public transport and road networks, including station car parking.

This guidance is also for proposals to relocate stations from one site to another, as well as new stations.

Station enhancements that are part of a larger enhancement programme, for instance reopening a closed railway or constructing a new railway are not covered by this guidance.

Network Rail and rail industry partners are seeking to make it easier and quicker to make and deliver investment in the railway.