Padgate Station Update
- By Ron W
- August 2, 2018
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If you’ve recently been to Padgate Station you will have noticed that good things are happening thanks to the efforts of the Friends of Padgate Station (supported by LRA). They have worked tenaciously and patiently and are now seeing the fruits of their labours being delivered to turn our somewhat shabby and long neglected station and its surroundings into a station the area can be proud of.
Here is the latest detailed update on the progress with the station, supplied by Bob McLaughlin who leads FoPS.
Friends of Padgate Station
At last!!!
After years of pushing, cajoling, threatening & pleading with all & sundry regarding Padgate Station, in the last few weeks we have:-
Taken delivery of the artwork from the very talented Rachelle from IC Art in Irlam
They are now in place on the station & look magnificent; they have been coated with a special anti-vandal paint which has already been tested by some idiot daubing chewing gum on Peter Postlethwaite’s face, which was very easily removed!!
60+ persons were in attendance for the initial “unveiling” on Wednesday 1st August, followed by a buffet & refreshments at the very welcoming Padgate Village Club, who opened especially to ensure we could celebrate this milestone, a very big thank you to Mark the Steward.
New Shelters have been installed on the Southern Platform, following decades of no shelter on this platform
Ticket Machine
Ticket Machines have been installed on both Platforms, please ensure you purchase tickets from these machines before getting on the train to Birchwood or Warrington as failure to do so may result in either a £20 fine or at least double the initial cost of the ticket whichever is dearest, failure to pay the fine automatically leads to being prosecuted
The official figures show that 152,000 people used the station in 2016/17, with estimated up to 20,000 (50 per day) travelling without a ticket per annum!!
CCTV cameras are now in place & monitored 24 hours per day, hopefully these will deter the idiots who on a regular basis steal plants, pull plants out and throw them on the floor to die, and also they take great delight in tipping the waste bins out on the platform
Planters have again been completely replanted by LRA and look magnificent a particular big thank you to Wendy Orange, or Longbarn’s Charlie Dimmock!
Buildings, the main buildings have now been surveyed with reference to a complete refurbishment and being leased to business in the future. All artwork will be re used when the building is refurbished
Lighting. The station lighting is also being upgraded
Trees around the car park, no further movement on the trees as yet, the quotes have been obtained & accepted, so we are waiting for a contractor to be awarded the contract & for it to actually happen
Modular Building. There are plans in hand for a “modular” building to be in place in the near future, not sure what the function will be, Toilet, Waiting room, kiosk?
Millmans, the planning permission has been granted to build 28 “dwellings”; we are waiting with baited breath for the building to begin