Work is to begin next week on a £5m redevelopment at Stirling station.
The work will begin on Monday, 18th July 2022, and scheduled for completion by spring 2023. The project will provide safe pedestrian and cycle-friendly areas that will deliver sustainable transport options and a greener environment.
Funding is being provided by the Scottish Government and delivered through Sustrans. Stirling Council. Network Rail Scotland and Serco Group have also contributed to the funding. The contractor for the work is Luddon Construction, whilst ScotRail will manage the redevelopment.
The design includes:
- Refurbishment of the station entrance canopy.
- Creating a pedestrianised plaza around the station.
- Improved customer waiting facilities and new public toilets on platforms 2 and 3.
- Creation of a Cyclepoint with 150 additional cycle parking spaces and a small maintenance area, which will enhance the current e-bike offering on the station forecourt.
- Pedestrianisation of the current station forecourt by replacing the roundabout on Goosecroft Road with a T-junction and a new car park entrance from Burghmuir Road.
- Waterproofing the bridge top deck in advance of the forecourt works.
- Relocating taxis from the station area to the city centre.
During the work, the North and South car parks will be closed to the public, although there will be space in North for five Blue Badge holders. This link shows alternative car parking in and around Stirling station while the North and South car parks are closed.
Bavid Lister, ScotRail Safety, Engineering & Sustainability Director, said: “This is an exciting development which will modernise Stirling station with a more people-focused entrance as well as enhancing the area around the station.
“Not only will the completed project foster an active travel culture by encouraging cycling, walking, and wheeling, it will also promote train travel as we maintain our aim of delivering more sustainable transport options.
“The improvements for pedestrians and cyclists will make a positive contribution to meeting the Scottish Government's target of net zero emissions by 2045.”
Jenny Gilruth MSP, Minister for Transport, said: “We welcome the start of this latest phase in the Stirling Station redevelopment, marking further Scottish Government investment in Scotland's Railways.
“This is a great example of how we are working closely with our industry and local partners to significantly enhance passenger facilities at this station, as well as improve the active travel links between the station and the Stirling community.
“Our aim is to encourage more people from the Stirling area to want to travel by train while also choosing more sustainable ways to get to and from the station whether that is by bus, walking, wheeling or cycling.
“We also want to drive local economic benefits by encouraging more people to visit Stirling by rail to explore the city and the surrounding areas.
“This is all part of our vision for rail services going forward; services which are attractive, efficient, passenger focussed and provide best value for money.”
Michael Melton Grant Manager of Sustrans Scotland, said: “This will create a more people focused entrance to Stirling station.
“There'll be extra planting with integrated seating and junction improvements to reduce the number of crossings.
“There'll also be larger undercover cycle storage facilities. All together it will be a truly transformative project.”
Councillor Jen Preston, Convener of Stirling Council's Environment and Housing Committee, said: “The transformation of Stirling Rail Station will make an incredible difference to the public transport gateway into our city.
“People arriving by train will see Stirling in a new light, with access to a range of improved active travel options and routes that connects the station to businesses, leisure and tourism destinations across the city centre and beyond.
“Enhancing the station forecourt will provide an attractive space for visitors, improve accessibility and link to our ‘Walk Cycle Live Stirling' projects.
“This will enable people to make different transport choices and support our wider climate emergency objectives.”
11/1/23, I have just attempted to drop my wife, with a suitcase, at Stirling station. We are relatively fit older people, who had to drive all over Stirling in lashing rain and temperatures around 4 degrees, with no signage, directions or indication of where we could park with access to the station. Even attempting to leave the town and re-enter it from the west was frustrated by road works. If this “improvement” means parking more than say 50m from the station, we will simply not use the train. Objections about car use might be valid if there was actual regular cost effective public transport east to west from Helensburgh to Stirling. There isn’t any. As it stands, the management of these works is limiting our ability and desire to use a service on which we have depended for fifteen years, and is forcing us to either spend far too long on the journey, or use a car. Deeply unimpressed by the management of this project.
I don’t see any answers from ScotRail to the questions below regarding taxis being relocated to the city centre. What use is that to folk with disabilities or heavy luggage?
How will someone in a wheelchair with luggage have access to the station? In the past they would have been dropped off by taxi at the front entrance and taken from there by the assisted travel team.
By car.. How do I drop off my 80 year old husband at stirling station entrance? He is not disabled.
There is no information , so instead of using the train more, we are likely to drive to Edinburgh.
Where can I see plans on-line showing the proposed changes around Stirling railway station ?
How do people who have mobility issues easily catch a train now and in the future ?
I may have misunderstood but can anyone explain how “relocating taxis from the Station area to the City centre” will improve matters and persuade more people to travel by train?