Rail passengers welcomed plans for a long-awaited £7.2 million railway station during a public display of the proposed scheme.

Low Moor station will be the first built in Bradford district since the 1990s. But many attending the consultation asked if there was any chance it could be built sooner after hearing it is expected to be completed by 2014/15.

Detailed proposals, drawn up by consultants working for West Yorkshire integrated transport authority Metro, went on show over the weekend. Final plans will be submitted to Bradford Council in December and the scheme could start as early as March.

Project manager Caroline Young, of Metro, was at the public consultation in Oakenshaw.

She said: “It has been very busy with a lot of positive comments from people who live nearby and people who will be using the station. Most people are saying ‘can you make this happen any sooner’ and that is something that we are continuing to work hard on, to get it opened sooner rather than later.”

Metro will build the station, on the Caldervale Line between Bradford Interchange and Halifax, between Cleckheaton Road and New Works Road, on land owned by Bradford Council.