Stafford railway station to get £3million waterproof revamp

Stafford rail station will receive improvements. Pic: Matt Buck

Stafford railway station is be waterproofed as part a £3 million refurbishment.

The upgrade will take nine months to complete and the station will remain open to passengers.

Work will see platforms resurfaced and roof coverings renewed.

Jo Kaye, Network Rail’s route managing director, said: “Stafford is a typical early 1960s concrete station built in what was then a modernistic style.

“Time has taken its toll on the building so we are putting right some of the problems it currently has.”

Two platforms were resurfaced last year and the other three will now receive similar treatment.

Platform surfaces have been damaged by water getting into joints between paving slabs and the use of de-icing chemicals in winter.

Improvements to the platforms using tactile strips will aid visually impaired passengers.

Surface water drains will replace the existing drainage channel and the footbridge that links the platforms and passenger lifts will be renewed.

Two million passengers use the station every year.