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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Railways (23 March 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on (a) opening new train stations and (b) restoring previously closed railway lines.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Answer

Under the New Stations Fund, my Department has opened 8 new stations and a further 5 new stations will be open by 2024.

A third round of the Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund closed on 5 March, which will develop more early-stage ideas for reopening rail lines and stations. This will add to the 25 ideas funded in previous rounds and funding for a feasibility study to reinstate the Fleetwood-Poulton line.

£34 million has been pledged to rapidly progress plans to reopen the Northumberland line, which closed to passengers in 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts and on 19 March, my Department announced the reopening of the Dartmoor line between Exeter and Okehampton, with services planned to begin this year.


Answered by:
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative)
29 March 2021

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