Rail lines cash bid

UK Government has been asked to help build a new North Wales train station from a fund to help reverse the Beeching cuts.

It has also been asked to look at ideas such as restoring passenger services between Gaerwen and amlwch and reopening the Bangor to caernarfon line.

Published in 1963, the Beeching report was followed by the closure of almost 2,500 stations and around 5,000 miles of track.

the department for transport has launched a £500m restoring your railway Fund – available to restore or build new lines and stations in england and Wales.

Welsh Government transport minister Ken Skates has now put in a bid for funding towards four Welsh stations – including a new one at deeside Parkway, on the Borderlands line. Under the New Stations Fund 3, worth £20m they would be ready by early 2024.

the transport Minister also invited UK transport Secretary Grant Shapps to discuss further priorities for rail investment, including new stations at Greenfield and Magor.

he put forward suggestions for the New Ideas Fund, including the restoration of passenger services on the line between Gaerwen and amlwch on anglesey.

he also took the opportunity to reiterate the case strongly for plans which included the aberystwyth – carmarthen and Bangor – caernarfon re-openings.

the other Welsh sites put forward for the New Stations Fund 3: are carno, on the cambrian Mainline, Mid Wales; St clears on the Great Western Mainline, West Wales and ely Mill on the city line in cardiff, in South Wales