(Yesterday, 2:45 pm)deanmachine wrote You can probably work them out quite close to where they're going to be looking at what's been announced for the 3 stations.
Speculating, I reckon around Pattinson Road, Washington Road, and Follingsby Lane. Just depends on the space available for them.
I think the only one that is perhaps set in stone is Washington North, as we know Nexus own a pocket of land around there.
There's an EIA scoping request in to planning at the moment for 485 homes next to where the proposed station would be. See 26/00263/SCO on the Sunderland Planning Portal. This appears to form part of something I was accidentally sent in 2023, which included up to 1500 homes, but notably an outline of Nexus land at the bottom for a Park and Ride, Station and some shops. Roughly here:
As you say, the others are likely to be around Pattinson Road and Follingsby Lane. The latter probably has more options than the former, with the easiest option perhaps being to use the former station site roughly behind Swan. A better option, if suitable, would be this:
My rationale here is that I feel opening it up to this side of Fatfield is actually serving a larger catchment area. It'd be relatively simple to route a bus round Shepherd Way without altering the roads, you'd have a limited space for a car park, and it'd be relatively easy to build the local mini bus network around that and Washington North. The Swan site is a nightmare for parking during the day with all the businesses, there's limited space, and I think the closest you'd get is a mini bus around Barmston Court.