Cash for ten rail reopening projects

Rail

Ten rail reopening proposals have been awarded a share of £500,000 from the Ideas Fund stream of the DfT’s Restoring Your Railway fund. 

The projects are: 

• reopening Meir Railway station between Stoke-On-Trent and North Staffordshire
• passenger services on the Barrow Hill line between Sheffield and Chesterfield
• passenger services on the Leicester to Burton line
• reinstatement of branch lines on the Isle of Wight
• reinstatement of a passing loop between St Albans Abbey and Watford Junction
• reopening of Wellington (Somerset) and Cullompton (Devon) stations
• passengers services on the Bury-Heywood-Rochdale lines
• passenger services on the Clitheroe to Hellifield line
• reinstatement of rail access to Devizes via a new station at Lydeway
• passenger services on the Totton-Fawley line in Hampshire

The DfT has awarded funding to each of the proposals to help prepare a business case.