The buffers at Colne station.. A LOCAL authority is set to to step up the pressure on the government to fast track the reinstatement of a trans-Pennine rail link closed 50 years ago. On Thursday Hyndburn Council's full meeting will debate a call to ask ministers to repeat its backing for the scheme to bring back the link between Colne and Skipton at the end of the East Lancashire Line. There has been growing concern that the scheme has been downgraded by the government during the coronavirus pandemic. Now Labour councillors Noordad Aziz (Netherton ward) and Dave Parkins (Huncoat) have put down a motion for debate at Thursday's meeting.