A NEW ticket vending machine has been installed at Eccleston Park train station as part of Northern Rail’s Better Stations programme.

 

Better stations is a three-year plan to see improvements such as new shelters and waiting rooms, new ticket vending machines and customer information systems as well as better lighting, seating and accessibility.

 

Sharon Keith, Regional Director for Northern, said: “Eccleston Park is the first location to benefit from our Better Stations programme, which will see improvements at the majority of our stations during the next three years.

 

“We have recently completed a trial phase at four stations – where we tested some of the potential facilities we will roll out – but Eccleston Park is the site of the first formal work to be carried out as part of the programme.

 

“This is the first step on a long, but exciting, modernisation journey for Northern and our customers, which will not only see improvements at stations, but also new trains, refurbished trains and 2,000 extra services – all by 2020.”