Worcestershire Parkway Regional Interchange
Worcestershire Parkway 
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XC Plymouth-Edinburgh & GWR London service both passing at proposed station site (2017)
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| Location | |
| Place | Norton |
| Local authority | Wychavon |
| Grid reference | SO890508 |
| Operations | |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
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| Spring 2019 | Due to open |
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Worcestershire Parkway Regional Interchange is a proposed new railway station to be built at a rural junction where the Cotswold and Cross Country lines cross near Norton, Worcester, England. A new station on this site was first suggested in the 1970s, but it was rejected because of cost, estimated in 2015 to be £22 million.
Worcestershire County Council set aside £3 million for park and ride facilities at the station in 2007, while in June 2008 it was announced that the station was unlikely to be built for many years. Following this, in October 2008 an e-petition was set up on the No 10 website calling for a Worcestershire Parkway.
The Third Worcestershire Local Transport Plan (LTP3) cites Worcestershire Parkway Regional Interchange as the top transport priority for Worcestershire. It is also listed in the West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy as a Sub Regional Priority, and features in Policy T6 - Strategic Park and Ride. Worcestershire County Council is currently coordinating the development of the business case. An outline business case was developed by Laing Rail in March 2006, which concluded in favour of the development of Worcestershire Parkway Regional Interchange. The revised business case was submitted to the Department for Transport's Rail Office, who gave their formal support to the project in 2012.
In February 2013, Worcestershire County Council submitted a bid to the Network Rail managed New Stations Fund for £7 million to fund the first phase of development of Worcestershire Parkway. This application was turned down in July 2013.
In July 2014 the station was given funding as part of a government infrastructure fund distributed to local enterprise partnerships. The leader of Worcestershire County Council has said that he hopes the project will be completed by 2017.
New artist impressions were released on 9 February 2015 and the council have said that planning application has been submitted, with a decision due to have been made during the summer of 2015. If all goes to schedule work was due to have begun by the spring of 2016 and the station was on track to open in summer 2017, the county council said.
On 21 February 2015 Worcestershire County Council advertised for contractors for the construction of the railway station to include platforms, station building, passenger footbridge and lifts with a commencement date of late September 2015 with completion in May 2017. On 25 August 2015 planning permission was granted, with work expected to have started in 2016.
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