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Reopenings special: What hope now for the 'railway deserts'?

11/02/2025 in Features

With the demise of the Restoring Your Railway fund, have the prospects for rail reopenings ended with it? Joe Campbell reports.

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  • SpenLen - 12/02/2025 16:55

    Although NPR ( I hate it's bl00dy stupid name) is progressing, and very slowly the further East it goes, it is not reopening anything! As far as excalating costs, a new station in South Leeds ( that nobody I know wanted) had cost £18million....No £22.m.....no £25m when work stopped a year ago .

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