Council chiefs are to collaborate with an alliance of railway stations to explore improvements to Tameside train stations and developing surrounding land.
Tameside’s executive cabinet has signed off on plans to work with the Greater Manchester Stations Alliance to undertake feasibility work at Ashton railway station. The ‘memorandum of understanding’ between the authority and stations alliance will not be a formal partnership, but will set the basis for ‘collaborative working’.
This will allow them to explore the potential to ‘promote mixed use development’ on the land around the station, and to investigate current and future railway operational and maintenance requirements. The Alliance is made up of Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), Network Rail, London Continental Railway, TransPennine Express and Northern Rail.
