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29th October 2022, 19:43
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Plan to reopen Ivanhoe Line.
A bid to reopen a passenger railway line which was closed as part of the Beeching cuts has been backed by business leaders.
The Ivanhoe Line, between Burton-upon-Trent and Leicester, was closed to passenger trains in the 1960s. A campaign to restore the 31-mile (50km) route saw it selected as part in the government's £500m Restoring Your Railway programme. The East Midlands Chamber said it hoped the project could be brought to life. Full article here :- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-63427780
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29th October 2022, 20:58
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I seem to recall an earlier attempt to reinstate passenger trains (and, thus, stations) there were objections to a station being built at somewhere on the outskirts of Leicester (Kirby Muxloe or Leicester Forest East, I think). They preferred to commute into Leicester rather than have a large carpark built where they didn't want it - it was several years ago, now, though so I may be remembering wrongly and opinions may have changed with roads being even more clogged up nowadays.
In a way, it's still a 'passenger line' as railtours do occasionally use the line
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