Rochdale

The Rochdale Rail Corridor is an exciting and ambitious project. Taking full advantage of the improved and more frequent rail services on the Calder Valley Line, Rochdale is focusing its growth around existing and new stations.


Councillor John Blundell, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Business, Skills & Employment, Rochdale Borough Council

  • Transport accessibility and its impact on job opportunities

  • Bringing prosperity to Rochdale

  • Development density and employment growth

  • Economic ‘triangulation

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Owain Roberts, Regional Stakeholder Manager, Northern Trains

  • The Calder Valley Line improvements

  • Opening of the Ormsall Chord and Todmorton Curve to increase capacity

  • Delivering progressive service increases

  • Station improvements, new platforms, new signalling

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Richard Jones, Development Planning Director, WSP

  • Preparing an evidence base to support a rail programme

  • Enabling data driven revues of options

  • Developing tools to ease and speed assessments

  • Focusing housing around stations

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Simon Elliot, Head of Rail Programme, Transport for Greater Manchester

  • The Greater Manchester Stations Alliance

  • Regeneration and Development

  • Partnering

  • Delivery

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Mark Robinson, Assistant Director, Rochdale BC

  • Building on rail improvements

  • The Greater Manchester Stations Alliance

  • Delivering new stations

  • Land use planning

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Camilla Ween, Head of Communications, ConnectedCites

  • Putting rail at the heart of Greater Manchester's development

  • The potential ConnectedCities of Greater Manchester

  • Sustainably expanding existing towns

  • Integrating new settlements

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