A council commissioned study has concluded that a railway line between Armagh and Portadown is operationally feasible, technically deliverable and would promote sustainable travel. Source: BBC News
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Updates about proposed railway stations and infrastructure from across the UK
Councils across the UK provide support towards numerous projects to reopen rail schemes. This can include protecting the trackbed, adding it to Local Transport Plans and Development Proposals and conducting feasibility studies.
A council commissioned study has concluded that a railway line between Armagh and Portadown is operationally feasible, technically deliverable and would promote sustainable travel. Source: BBC News
Continue readingTrains could run on a heritage railway as part of Barnsley Council plans to transform a disused ironworks into an attraction. The site is designated as a scheduled ancient monument.
Continue readingProposals to restore passenger trains on the Ivanhoe line will run to Derby and not Leicester as work on the case maximises the value that restoration will bring. Click here
Continue readingSt Helens Borough Council have agreed to fund a study into restoring the railway line between St Helens Central and St Helens Junction (known as the Sutton Oak line). It
Continue readingCouncillors have agreed to the overall design and cycle parking provision for a railway station at Cambridge South. The £200m station will serve the Biomedical campus when it opens. Source:
Continue readingA study is underway into proposals to create a north-south public transport route through the borough of Havering. One of the options being considered is light rail. The proposed route
Continue readingA shifting of boundaries has reinvigorated the campaign to restore the railway line between Penrith and Keswick. In April 2023, Cumbria County Council and the district councils were replaced by
Continue readingA new railway station on the Severn Beach line is expected to open on Tuesday 1 August. Portway Park & Ride is a single platform station capable of managing trains
Continue readingContracts have been awarded for the construction of Bedlington, Blyth Bebside and Seaton Delaval railway stations, with work expected to start imminently. Work at Ashington and Newsham has already commenced,
Continue readingAn update to Bedford councillors has confirmed progress is being made on the proposed railway station at Wixams. Following discussions with the Department for Transport, Network Rail are taking forward
Continue readingDevon County Council are expecting a response from the Department for Transport this summer following their Restoring Your Railway submission for extending the national rail network to Tavistock. Click here
Continue readingCouncillors at West Lothian Council have agreed to write to Network Rail, the Scottish government and Winchburgh Developments Ltd to support progress on a railway station serving Winchburgh. The rapidly
Continue readingThe first trains in public service are expected to be serving Reading Green Park railway station from Saturday 27th May. The station sits on the Reading-Basingstoke line with trains every
Continue readingA feasibility study into a proposed railway station serving the Devizes area has been released showing that the best case would be part of a wider set of rail improvements.
Continue readingAn update to East Renfrewshire Council shows that work is progressing on the proposed railway station at Barrhead South. The station will be located on the Glasgow to Neilston railway
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