Station set for a revamp

Contractors move in on Carnforth

By MICHAEL HILL

YEARS of planning and waiting will finally bear fruit next month when refurbishment work finally starts on Carnforth's historic station.

October 6 will be the big day when contracts are finally signed and handed over ready for Railtrack to start work on the platforms, ramps, subways and roof coverings.

Contractors from the station's trust company will then move in to begin work on refurbishing the station buildings.

The work is just part of a major project to revamp the station and return it to how it looked in 1945 when it was used to film Brief Encounter.

Planners hope to create the new station by combining the best of the old with new materials and design standards.

The final deadline for external and structural parts of the station to be finished is March 31 next year.

Preparations for the big day have not gone as well as organisers would have liked. Three weeks ago the visitor office at the station was broken into and vandalised. It has been closed ever since the incident. Peter Yates, chairman of the Carnforth Station Trust, explained: "We think it might have been just one yob rather than a big gang but he managed to cause a hell of a mess. "He took one of the litter bins off the wall of the station and threw it through the window "He ripped to shreds the clothes on the station master we had in there and was sick all over the place."
"Because we were so close to starting work on the project there didn't seem much point in opening the centre again for a couple of weeks."
The opening ceremony of work on the station is due to take place on October 6 from 4pm.

Station set for a revamp,  Morecambe Visitor 27 th September 2000

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