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Transport campaigners have expressed their dismay after Chancellor Rachel Reeves told MPs that the £500 million Restoring Your Railway fund had been cancelled, as part of a wide range of national economies to deal with an ‘overspend’ in the national budget of £22 billion, reports Rail News.
Rail News writes:
Ms Reeves… said transport secretary Louise Haigh will ‘cancel projects in the ‘Restoring our Railways’ programme which have not yet commenced’…. However, projects will then be reviewed individually, and could still go ahead.
Schemes which are set to be delayed until they can be reviewed again include… stations at Meir in Staffordshire, Haxby in Yorkshire, Cullompton in Devon, Wellington in Somerset, Devizes in Wiltshire, Ferryhill in County Durham, and Aldridge near Walsall in the West Midlands.
Ben Curtis from the Campaign for Better Transport said: ‘This is a hugely disappointing decision….’
