The UK Government has allocated an additional £15m for the development of nine Restoring Your Railway schemes across England.
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… funding will help open disused railway lines, services, and stations…
Railway Technology writes:
… The funding will help open disused railway lines, services, and stations, including some stations that were closed in the 1950s and 60s.
Last year in January, the Restoring Your Railway Fund was launched under the levelling up agenda, with the government committing £500m for reopening lines and stations…
The nine schemes that have secured funding include Aldridge station and line upgrade in Walsall, the Barrow Hill line between Sheffield and Chesterfield, the Ivanhoe line between Leicester and Burton on Trent, and Meir Station between Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire….
UK Rail Minister Wendy Morton said: “This funding will reconnect communities long cut off from the railway…
“…now, thanks to this funding, communities across England could be reconnected to our railways once more.”
