Kirkstall Forge didn’t appear to have any completed housing when I last visited, so only served a few offices on the site, but that was likely 5 years back so I expect a lot of the residential development is now there.
There are a number of reasons why Thanet Parkway was built. There’s a thread about it on this forumThese are great, thanks.
Are there any in the south east? Thanet Parkway is said to be built for the Discovery Park but wouldn't Sandwich station be better for the Discovery Park?
Winnersh Triangle springs to mind
I was about to say the same. Takes me back to the days when we frequently travelled on the Reading- Waterloo service. I only ever used the station once and that was to collect a jug kettle I'd won in a prize draw (in those days, the Royal Mail sorting office was located there).
The other splendid thing about Winnersh Triangle was singing 'Looking at it from my angle' when you passed it...
It’s a slightly odd suggestion but what about Lower Sydenham? It’s surrounded by a surprisingly industrial area for an outer London suburb and a fair hike from anything residential.
the closed stations of IBM Halt, Uralite Halt, Ampress Works, Sinfin North and Sinfin Central
For some time in the 1970s, Merseytravel (in some form) had a cheap fare for young people that stretched as far as Hawarden Bridge. So we would all get off there and walk across the bridge to go to the Deeside Ice Rink!Hawarden Bridge seemed to serve Shotton steel works pretty much exclusively
Just to add - likewise from personal experience and local knowledge - Cambridge North also serves as an alternative to Waterbeach station for people living north of Cambridge; and in addition to fairly close to Cambridge Science Park and several other business/innovation parks; there is a major mixed business/residential development slowly going up adjacent to the station. This seems to me a rather good example of getting the public transport provision (which also includes a bus interchange and link to the Cambridge Busway) in first.I thought that was a large element of the original justification for it, though as a regular user (and personally using it to commute to the Science Park), I don't think it has ended up as such - probably because it is a bit too far away from the Science Park, via one of two very uninspiring (and increasingly poorly-lit, with quite a number of street lights out at the moment) paths.
Most users just seem to be using it as a (leisure) alternative to the main Cambridge station, probably because they live closer and/or because it is easier to get to. And it is increasingly popular and doing rather well. But I'm not convinced it gets the amount of Science Park traffic originally envisaged.
In like vein, Waddon Marsh was never much of a residential hotspot, but very convenient for Croydon's gasworks and power stations. Today's Tramlink serves the same patch, transformed into business and retail areas.Yes - think that was at least part of the justification for it, although Winnersh is quite a long settlement, so the station serves the west end of Winnersh and the Loddon Bridge area residents, and to some extent it's a 'Woodley and Lower Earley Parkway' station, as there's no room even to stop a car to pick up / set down at Winnersh Station (or Halt as it used to be known.)
Not sure how the inward / outward passenger flows are post covid.
more industrial than some, but 1897 OS map shows the station was there before the industrial development (apart from the gas works, that is)
If we're getting in to older industrial sites rather than 'business parks', then Grain was there mainly for oil refinery workers, Beckton for gas works employees, and the Connaught Road - Gallions line mainly for dock workers.
Re Outwood - clearly not! What business has your chum to be taking train trips if he's meant ro be working at home?!!An individual office building, factory or warehouse (or even army barracks) in my book does not a "business park" make.
Otherwise almost any station would qualify, apart from maybe the likes of Corrour and Dovey Junction. A friend of mine lives next door to Outwood station, does that one qualify on the days he's working remotely?
I was clearly pointing out the absurdity of such a suggestion... one place of employment being present does not make any particular site a "Business Park".Re Outwood - clearly not! What business has your chum to be taking train trips if he's meant ro be working at home?!!
Holton Heath in Dorset?I'm doing some research into stations that are primarily built for business purposes. Reading Green Park springs to mind. What other stations are there like this?