Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the scheme to re-open railways lines closed by the Beeching report, whether they have a (1) target, or (2) estimate, for (a) the number of stations, and (b) the length of railway, to be reopened by (i) 2025, (ii) 2030, and (iii) in total.
The Government does not have a target or estimate for the number of stations or length of railway to be reopened by our Reversing Beeching initiate. We have provided an initial £500m and have invited MPs to bring new schemes forward for consideration as well as committing to accelerate existing schemes under consideration and launching a £20m new station fund competition. What can be achieved will be determined by the best bids and opportunities identified.