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The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s.Since the mid-1990s there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport.
Reopening the Woodhead line as a potential alternative Pennine crossing was ruled out early on. [6] The Skipton–East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership is a campaign that is seeking the reopening of the 12-mile (19 km) railway line that used to run between the Lancashire town of Colne and the Yorkshire town of Skipton. This could provide an ...
Leeds/Bradford Airport railway station Parkway [15] Horsforth Woodside [15] Cookridge [15] Arthington Parkway (reopening) [15] Buttersyke Bar – park and ride [citation needed] Bilton [15] Belmont [15] Knaresborough East [citation needed] Manse Farm [15] Flaxby Moor [15] Nether Poppleton [citation needed] York Business Park [15] Acomb [15]
There were no plans to link the two lines. [18] The South Borders Railway ran into difficulties as a result of the unwillingness of landowners to sell land. [16] Based on the BTF's groundwork, the Campaign for Borders Rail, founded in 1999, was able to advance a project to reopen a section between Galashiels and Tweedbank to passengers.
The Northumberland Line is a railway in North East England; it has reintroduced passenger rail services to lines in South East Northumberland that had for many years been freight-only. Under the scheme, a new passenger service links some of Northumberland's major population centres in Ashington and Blyth to the nearby city of Newcastle upon Tyne .
The Levenmouth rail link [1] (also called the Leven rail link [2]) is a recently reopened 5 miles (8 km) branch line railway in Fife, Scotland. The link connects the town of Leven and other settlements in the Levenmouth conurbation with Thornton , and joins the Fife Circle Line at Thornton North Junction.
The double-tracked line was reduced to a single track in the early 1990s. A concerted campaign was launched to improve services on the line after it was nearly closed by Network Rail in the early 2000s. In 2014 work began to upgrade the line so that it could be reopened for daily rail services.
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