According to a story on the BBC this morning, £50 million will be spent on upgrading facilities across ten stations.  Seven of the ten are in the North West: Stockport, Manchester Victoria, Crewe, Warrington Bank Quay, Preston, Wigan North Western and Liverpool Central.As the BBC Reports:

Last week, rail operator Network Rail announced plans to spend £3.25bn to improve more than 2,000 stations across England and Wales by 2014.

But the government’s railway “champions” – former Virgin Trains chief executive Chris Green and Town and Country Planning Association president Sir Peter Hall – have identified 10 that are in need of the most urgent work.

In a report released on Tuesday, they described the 10 as having been “left behind”.

Many were large Victorian buildings that were difficult to develop or had little commercial appeal, they said, and all had customer satisfaction ratings of less than 50%.

Manchester Victoria was judged to be the worst followed by Clapham Junction and Crewe, with all three suffering from overcrowding.