Question follow-through · 33650
Railway Stations: Tempsford
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the new railway station at Tempsford.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the new railway station at Tempsford.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
The current cost estimate for Connection Stages 2/3 of EWR is £5-6bn, which is inclusive of an interchange station at Tempsford. The design of Tempsford station is not sufficiently advanced to give a robust cost estimate at this time.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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