Oh that's nothing (but don't forget that up here in the frozen North we've had years of a 2-car 144 being the best we could hope for...). Brand new station have been opened at Low Moor, Kirkstall Forge and Apperley Bridge in West Yorkshire in the last few years at a cost of tens of millions of £s, yet despite 4 or 5 trains per hour passing in either direction, there has only been track capacity to timetable one stopping train an hour each way.
A new park & ride station is currently being built at Thorpe Park on the Leeds - York line between Garforth and Cross Gates despite passengers already being unable to board at either of those two stations at the peaks and long standing capacity issues precluding running any more stopping trains on that line. Trains that used to stop at those stations now run through non-stop "to improve reliability". There is speculation that once Thorpe Park opens, services will be reduced further at Cross Gates, letting it wither on the vine.
Unbelievably, plans have now been lodged to build another new station near the White Rose Centre on the Leeds - Huddersfield - Manchester line a few hundred yards from the existing station at Cottingley, which will face exactly the same issues as that line is apparently already beyond capacity.
