Work completed on £400K investment in new car park at Diss Station

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Work to increase car parking capacity at National Express East Anglia’s (NXEA) Diss station through a £400k investment to construct an additional 60 space surface car park has been completed. This project is part of the company’s Service Improvement Plan to improve capacity on the East Anglia network through the introduction of additional train carriages and extra car parking at key locations.

The work at Diss fulfils a long-held aspiration to improve parking facilities at this key South Norfolk gateway on the Norwich to London intercity mainline.

Graham Plant, Norfolk County Council’s Cabinet member for Travel and Transport and Councillor Tony Palmer of South Norfolk Council will officially open the new car park on Tuesday 1 March at 10.30.

The construction of the new car park has been carried out by Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd and the additional 60 car parking spaces will increase the total capacity at Diss to 239 spaces.

Mark Phillips, Deputy Managing Director of National Express East Anglia said: “I am delighted that our customers using Diss station will now benefit from the 60 additional car parking spaces making it easier to park at this busy station, and I am grateful to our contractor Buckingham Group for completing the project on-time and on-budget. The work at Diss is another key project in our Service Improvement Plan improving seating capacity and car parking.”

Graham Plant, Norfolk County Council’s Cabinet member for Travel and Transport, said: “I welcome the completion of the works to improve the car park at Diss rail station, which complements the access improvements, information boards and cycle racks that the County Council recently funded at the station.”

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