Doncaster Sheffield Airport Rail Link Proposal

[STEVIEBOY1]

Was this another White Elephant perhaps like Sheffield Airport. To me that area seems quite well served for airports, having Leeds, Manchester and indeed Humberside not that far away, also Tees-Side, Newcastle and Liverpool too?

 

[BrianW]

Was this another White Elephant perhaps like Sheffield Airport. To me that area seems quite well served for airports, having Leeds, Manchester and indeed Humberside not that far away, also Tees-Side, Newcastle and Liverpool too?

Maybe a candidate for 'Levelling Up' funding (or whatever the incoming PM will dub some exciting new project/ programme)?
I would like to see a 'business case' once the existing 'competition' is stuffed to the gunnels and buses from this 'vital' regional airport to some existing railway station are getting regularly overloaded.
Call me unimaginative; dreaming on ... without 'spending hardworking taxpayers money'. Zzzzz ....

 

[swt_passenger]

Was this another White Elephant perhaps like Sheffield Airport. To me that area seems quite well served for airports, having Leeds, Manchester and indeed Humberside not that far away, also Tees-Side, Newcastle and Liverpool too?

Teesside seems to be just as much a basket case. Maybe in future local authorities should concentrate on their core responsibilities rather than vanity projects.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Was this another White Elephant perhaps like Sheffield Airport. To me that area seems quite well served for airports, having Leeds, Manchester and indeed Humberside not that far away, also Tees-Side, Newcastle and Liverpool too?

Are you sure that you should have included Tees-Side in that list? Some people refer to it as the Marie Celeste of UK airports...

 

[snowball]

Are you sure that you should have included Tees-Side in that list? Some people refer to it as the Marie Celeste of UK airports...

The ghost ship was called Mary Celeste. Marie Celeste was a fictionalised version by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

[Andrew1395]

My mother in law lives in Finningley. We could park up on her drive and get a taxi to the airport. With the daughter living near Newark. Guess what she always flies from Luton as the prices are cheaper than flights from Birmingham, EMA or Manchester. Would we/she use Finningley? Only if it is cheaper. At the moment its offer is less attractive than Southend.

 

[westv]

Was this another White Elephant perhaps like Sheffield Airport. To me that area seems quite well served for airports, having Leeds, Manchester and indeed Humberside not that far away, also Tees-Side, Newcastle and Liverpool too?

There are hardly any flights from Humberside airport.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

There are hardly any flights from Humberside airport.

Shame about lack of flights from Humberside and Teesside as mentioned above, at one time they used to be fairly busy.
Not many trains, if any now, call at Teesside Airport Station either.

 

[ainsworth74]

Teesside seems to be just as much a basket case. Maybe in future local authorities should concentrate on their core responsibilities rather than vanity projects.

But how else was the Combined Authority Tory mayor supposed to win his election unless he used public money to bring it back into public ownership? Vanity project? Its the key factor in keeping himself in power and the funding taps open for people associated with him!

 

[swt_passenger]

Not many trains, if any now, call at Teesside Airport Station either.

None at all. It’s in that ‘limbo’ status of temporary closure, but there’s a dedicated thread about it.

 

[BrianW]

People are able to vote for their 'representatives' with or without vanity projects.

People are able to spend their own money on 'vanity projects' subject to the planning approval of local represenatatives.

People are able to stand for election themselves.

Myself, I like to support the brainstormings of so-called (in a sneering kind of way?) 'crayonistas'. In such ruminations may be a seed of a great idea.

So, OP and others, keep on crayoning. I learn a lot along the way. Thank you for this Forum.

 

[paul1609]

Was this another White Elephant perhaps like Sheffield Airport. To me that area seems quite well served for airports, having Leeds, Manchester and indeed Humberside not that far away, also Tees-Side, Newcastle and Liverpool too?

Its going to be the same with HS2 fast to Birmingham then stopping at every small station 10 miles apart to Leeds as the HS2 service to London will be seen as an essential status symbol amongst the competing Northern villages.
Ashford to Stratford International is 8 miles further than Manchester to Leeds but only supports one intermediate station.

 

[swt_passenger]

BBC reporting closure of the airport:

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) is to close after its owner said "no tangible proposals" had been received regarding its future ownership.
Peel Group said the closure was due to a "fundamental lack of financial viability".
On Friday, South Yorkshire's political leaders offered public money to keep DSA operating into 2023.
But Peel Group said services at the airport, which employs 800 workers, would wind down from 31 October.
South Yorkshire's mayor Oliver Coppard said he was "devastated by today's announcement" and angry about the impact the closure would have on local communities.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport to close despite financial lifeline offer

Doncaster Sheffield Airport owner Peel says the wind-down will begin on 31 October.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[dosxuk]

BBC reporting closure of the airport:

Doncaster Sheffield Airport to close despite financial lifeline offer

Doncaster Sheffield Airport owner Peel says the wind-down will begin on 31 October.

www.bbc.co.uk

I therefore expect to see the station project confirmed and given the go ahead in the coming days, only for it to be built and then never opened as the airport has closed.

 

[Mojo]

There is already a thread ongoing regarding closure of the Airport.

As the airport is closing, this rail link remains a proposal for now. I'll lock this thread to avoid any discussion about airport closures in the wrong area.