Rail Minister Wendy Morton has released a statement specifying which nine schemes have been awarded funding as part of the Restoring Your Railway programme.
The idea behind the programme is to restore former passenger lines and in doing so provide opportunities for jobs, homes and education thanks to the improved connectivity.
She said: “The Restoring Your Railway Fund is making substantial progress to restore previously closed rail lines: the £500 million commitment is supporting the development or delivery of over 45 schemes across England and Wales, and we have already reintroduced services to the Dartmoor Line between Okehampton and Exeter.”
The nine are:
- the Barrow Hill line between Sheffield and Chesterfield;
- the Ivanhoe Line between Leicester and Burton on Trent;
- new stations at
- Meir in Staffordshire,
- Haxby in Yorkshire,
- Devizes in Wiltshire,
- Ferryhill in County Durham;
- Aldridge station and line upgrade in Walsall;
- the reinstatement of the Fleetwood line;
- the development of the Mid Cornwall Metro scheme for services between Newquay and Falmouth.
Alongside this announcement, the government published a Restoring Your Railway fund update, which sets out progress on all schemes that have received funding.
