Plans in for Salford Crescent third platform
The creation of an additional platform at the train station is the stand-out intervention in a £72m package of works aimed at improving the rail network in and around Salford and Manchester.
The investment was announced last May and included plans to improve Manchester Victoria and the scrapping of proposals for two extra platforms at Manchester Piccadilly.
Network Rail, working with WSP, has now submitted a planning application to add a platform at Salford Crescent.
The project is aimed at reducing delays caused by congestion on the existing island platform and ensuring trains can pass through the station more quickly.
In addition, it is hoped adding an extra platform will improve the user experience, affording passengers more space, and allowing them to exit and enter the station more quickly.
The platform will be accessed via steps from the ticket office.
The last time improvements were made at Salford Crescent was in 2013 when the platforms were extended and the ticket office was relocated to street level.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number PA/2024/0770 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
Piccadilly platforms 13 and 14 is the real bottleneck, adding platforms elsewhere is helpful but doesn’t truly increase capacity where its needed.
By MJ
This is obviously great, but anything which seeks to resolve congestion in GM is not going to fully succeed until we have extra capacity on Castlefield corridor and platforms 15 and 16 at Piccadilly
By Anonymous
Scrapping the additional platforms at Piccadilly was such a shortsighted stupid decision.
By Anonymous
Excellent news. An important baby step towards the Manchester Taskforce reliability plans. However, it’s a shame we do things so incrementally in this country, as I expect that a fourth platform (second platform heading north) will be considered in another 10 years time.
By Good News
And build another platform at Salford Central and make urban rail firms serve it.
By Fed-up Fred: A daily commuter
It’s not Piccadilly or Salford Crescent but Manchester Victoria where huge amount rail capacity was lost by building over nearly half the platform capacity of the station with creation Manchester Arena.Get that arena knocked down and you could massively improve rail capacity in Manchester because Manchester Victoria used to have more platform than Piccadilly
By Anonymous
The trains will still be delayed or cancelled due to the same reason that comes over the tannoy all the time witch is the next train is delayed/cancelled due to staff shortages
By Sean O'Neill Salford resident