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Train options open EXCLUSIVE: Maitland MP in talks to reopen Oakhampton Station • MELISSAH COMBER W @melcomber
ember for Maitland, Robyn Parker wo:uld li~e to reopen the Oakhampton tram station. Ms Parker told the Post that she had been in discussions with the Minister for Transport and the Hunter, Gladys Berejikilian, about the possibility of reopening the station to serve the growing population in the city's west. "I've had conversations with the Minister on a couple of occasions about what other transport options we can have in Maitland," Ms Parker said. "[Opening the station] is something that I'm exploring with the Minister, and she wasn't opposed at all." The station closed in 1975 and is currently in a derelict and overgrown state. Ms Parker said that reopening the station would be of particular benefit to the people ofAberglasslyn. "If we reopened Oakhampton Station than people from Aberglasslyn and that growing area would have access to another form of transport," she said. "It might need afeasibility study to work out what's involved - we'd need to work out if the platform is the right length for current demands and those sort ofthings, but it would give us another option. "I don't know what the costing would be, but it's certainly something on my radar." The Maitland Urban Settlement Strategy estimated that the city's population would grow by 66,000 over the next 25 years.
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