Mar 17, 2021
A rail group is bidding for government funding to investigate reopening a disused train line to some of the county s most popular tourist sites.
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The new rail line could provide a link to some of the county s most popular tourist sites.
The Ironbridge Railway Trust is asking the government for money to plan the reopening of a 10-mile line between the former Ironbridge Power Station and Bridgnorth.
The application is for £43,000 from the Department for Transport s Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund . If successful the funding will be used to further develop the case for the plan.
New railway stations planned in bid to re-open lost Leicestershire line that shut 50 years ago
The Rugby to Leicester line was scrapped during the 1960s cuts
The proposed Lutterworth Line
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