Date: 08/09/2014

The Government will “shortly” announce whether to fund an additional rail line to the vulnerable coastal link at Dawlish that collapsed into the sea earlier this year.
Leader of the House of Commons William Hague confirmed the Department for Transport will reveal its plans imminently after being pressed for a debate on the options mapped out by rail bosses Network Rail.
This summer, the Government published the report that detailed seven alternative routes that would cost between £400 million and £3 billion.

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