Place Micklefield Managed by N/A Number of platforms 3 Pte West Yorkshire | Grid reference SE443334 Zone 2 | |
Similar Thornhill (Dumfries) railway st, Chipping Sodbury railway st, Marsh Barton railway st, Long Ashton railway st, Richhill railway station | ||
East Leeds Parkway is a proposed railway station, to be sited near Micklefield in West Yorkshire, England on the Selby Line.
It will be served by trains from the west of Leeds which would normally terminate at Leeds station; by continuing eastwards to this station, it is hoped that extra capacity for through trains would be created at Leeds. The station would also form the first phase of electrifying the railway line to the east of Leeds. As a parkway station, the intention would be to allow for a park-and-ride service and the plans include parking for 500 cars.
£20 million was allocated to the scheme by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Transport Board in April 2008. It was originally hoped that construction would begin in 2011, with a completion date of 2012, but the business case was not submitted to the Department for Transport until 2011. The scheme has now been put on hold due to a lack of central government funding.
The station is likely to be made up of 2 long platforms, capable of serving inter-city trains, as well as a bay platform for terminating services.
The station also featured in plans by Alliance Rail as a stopping point for services between Ilkley/Bradford Forster Square and London Kings Cross to begin in 2017. However in May 2016, the Office of Rail and Road rejected Alliance Rail's plans to runs services under its GNER banner.
The proposals have been downplayed in favour of an alternative site at Thorpe Park (which is further west). The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has stated that it is to review the options because of the lack of clarity over the Northern Powerhouse enhancement would mean that only stopping trains (operated by Northern) would stop at any future site.