Date: 25/01/2013

A total of £20 million has been set aside for the plans in which councils, train operators and developers will be invited to bid for the cash. Under the plans the Government will pay 75 per cent of the cost of building either completely new stations or resurrecting ones which were scrapped decades ago. [From Mark Bartlett]

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Beeching stations could reopen with Government cash

Telegraph

Stations shut during the 1960s “Beeching axe” could be rebuilt under plans announced by Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary.