The project cost £20 million Refurbishment of Stalybridge Station begins Rail.co news article; Retrieved 2012-08-30 as the station closed on Sundays throughout the summer of 2012 followed by a nine-day line blockade at the end of October but gives improved operational flexibility and reliability, allowed the line speed through the station and junction to be increased to 50 mph and left it ready for the proposed electrification of the Leeds - Manchester trans-Pennine route in 2022.