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Bromsgrove Rail User Group

Observations from the Secretary of State for Transport, received 28 September 2010:

I am aware that the growth in demand for rail travel from Bromsgrove means that the existing station does not have platforms long enough to accommodate the longer trains expected to be needed to cope with the number of people expected to use the services which call there.

The preferred option to address this issue proposed by Worcestershire County Council is to build a new station to the south of the existing station. This would increase the amount of car parking available to rail users and provide better interchange with other forms of transport than would be possible at the existing site.

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This solution is supported by other rail industry partners and it would complement the proposal to electrify the railway line from Barnt Green to Longbridge and extend "cross city" services to and from Birmingham and beyond, to terminate at Bromsgrove rather than Longbridge.

The West Midlands Region had proposed to contribute £5 million from its Regional Funding Allocation from Government towards this project. In common with other schemes to be funded through this mechanism, consideration of this scheme has been suspended pendingI [continued]