A NEW entrance to Newton Abbot Railway Station from the Brunel Industrial Estate is set to be built.

Devon County Council has given the go ahead for the new entrance and station building to be built on land currently used as parking by International Dance Supplies and Royal Mail.

The existing footbridge across the platforms will be extended to connect to the new entrance.

Under delegated powers, officers this week approved the council’s own scheme to improve accessibility to the station from Brunel Industrial Estate to the east, which aims to make the railway a more attractive travel option over the car and to promote it as a form of public transport.

The extended footbridge would provide an eastern access to the station, would be at a height to safeguard for future electrification of the line, and the span of the bridge would allow space for a possible second relief line and platform, should the station be developed in this way in the future.

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