Carno Station Action Group Time for a train service

The Montgomeryshire Shire Committee was told on January 9th that a new, prefabricated form of construction of railway stations being piloted by Network Rail could slash the existing inflated costs. During his presentation to the Shire Committee, the chairman of Carno Station Action Group, Tony Burton, reported that the Chief Executive of Network Rail, Mr Ian Coucher, had quoted a cost of only £1 million pounds for a two-platform station now under construction at Eastfields in South London. This contrasted with the cost of £4.3 million for the new station at Llanharan near Cardiff, which was only half the size! Clearly cost savings on this massive scale would dramatically improve the financial case for a new station at Carno.