Dunbar Station upgrade cleared for summer start
December 13 2018
Network Rail has given the go-ahead to a £13m package of improvements at Dunbar Station, including the creation of a second platform and a step-free footbridge.
The improvements will increase capacity by allowing a new class of ten carriage trains to stop and offers scope for increased flexibility along the East Coast mainline.
Matthew Spence, Network Rail route delivery director for Scotland, commented: “The new platform, which will be fully accessible, will mean extra capacity at Dunbar and create opportunities for more services to stop in the future.”
Lift towers for the new overbridge will be clad in red or blonde sandstone in an effort to remain sympathetic to the historic town.
Graphics for the project were prepared by IDP Architects with Amco expected to begin engineering works in the summer for completion by early 2020.
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If you don't know anything about NR regulations and can't understand why they were developed, don't bother commentating.
Typical UR Troll ignorance!
Probably because of the ridiculous Building Control and safety reasons for which the station will need to be compliant, in particular the balustrade.
As for a glass enclosure, how are you supposed to clean that? If it was glass, all we'd see on here would be people moaning about how it'd look in winter.
Give the guys a break, some people are never happy.
I imagine the sandstone will also look alot better IRL than on the render with a nicely contrasted stair and footbridge.
Yawn
How do you explain the glass panels at Seabraes pedestrian bridge at Dundee?
Yawn
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-33151251
Seabraes isn't a Network Rail Bridge.
Just saying what I'm seeing.
Not sure if they are under instruction from the SEG to deliver tripe to the masses but their design standards are shocking.
Compare and contrast this tripe and a similar design that was knocked up for Croy with the improvements they made to Cambridge Station.
To repeat utter dross.
I guess I struck a nerve commenting on your previous trolling?
Did you actually bother to read the article you quoted or just look at the pictures? Just to spell it out, "Funding for the bridge was sourced from the Vacant and Derelict Land Fund, Dundee City Council and Scottish Enterprise".
There's so much moronic criticism on this site without any real understanding of how projects are regulated, procured & funded. You do know that other property professionals read this site. The level of trolling is a real embarrassment to the profession!
Why not point us to your contribution on some of the projects you've worked on.
The station building at Cathcart had just recently had its glazed canopy roof refurbished and all the drainage upgraded as well.
There was a woman who I couldn't tell whether she was client side or not but was, in not really hushed tones, marvelling at how they had, by omission, managed to 'get away' with not replacing the georgian wire glass canopy with similar glass.
The canopy today has cheap-looking plain clear glass panels and cheap-looking plastic caps with gutters that leak at connections.
If this is the ambition or base level of operating for those involved in delivery of the jobs then no wonder rubbish like the above is allowed to perpetuate, no matter the architect involved.
Not sure what you are talking about.
Seabraes spans a Network Rail line.
So presumably it needs their agreement and to comply with their regulations, and....it is glass.
I don’t think pointing this out is “moronic”.
What is your point?
The current design shames public transport in Scotland.
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