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Purpose

This document offers high level guidance aimed at the Sponsors, designers and planners of new railway station infrastructure in the UK. It outlines not just the factors determining physical space within stations but other components that need to be considered to achieve world class station design.

This station planning guidance is particularly applicable at early design stages, and as projects progress there may be a need to go into more detail in all of these topic areas. The document therefore references other guidance, standards and applicable legislation and acts as a signpost to other parts of the Network Rail guidance suite.

Railway projects are subject to the procedures of the GRIP (Governance for Railway Investment Projects) process, and this guidance helps users to navigate this process.

Key design considerations are set out and aligned to the GRIP stages in Section 6 of this document as a design considerations toolkit: a practical checklist of action for anyone embarking on new station works in the UK.