Hoped the scheme will help alleviate car parking issues at the site and also ease congestion on Marton Road
Jill Moulton at the construction site
Work has started on a £2.2m rail station at the back of James Cook University Hospital.
The new stop will see up to 17 trains a day in each direction call at the Middlesbrough hospital.
It is hoped the scheme will help alleviate car parking issues at the site and also ease congestion on Marton Road.
The new facility will include a single platform, a fully-lit waiting shelter and seating, full CCTV coverage and passenger information including an electronic screen and public address announcements.
Construction work began in January with the new station expected to open in the summer.
Managing director of Tees Valley Unlimited Stephen Catchpole said: “We are delighted that work has now started on this strategically important rail scheme. It will fill a significant gap in the existing rail network and provide an alternative means of access to one of the area’s largest employment sites.”
Plans for the hospital station on the line between Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe have been mooted for some 25 years.
Middlesbrough Council's planning committee gave the project the green light in January 2013.
Following a successful application to the local sustainable transport fund, Tees Valley Unlimited secured Department for Transport money for the new station, alongside a number of other initiatives to improve rail facilities across the area.
South Tees’ director of service strategy and infrastructure, Jill Moulton said: “The rail link will be a major boost for the trust, our staff and our patients.”
The development closely interlinks with Middlesbrough Council’s plans for a state-of-the-art sports village off Marton Road, which also includes a residential area on the former Prissick base and Brackenhoe East School sites.
Middlesbrough Council’s Executive member for transport, Councillor Nicky Walker, said it will reduce the number of cars on Marton Road.
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