Department for Transport written question – answered at on 9 July 2020.
Bridget Phillipson
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what projects received funding from the Restoring Your Railway Fund.
Chris Heaton-Harris
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The ten bidders for the first round of the Ideas Fund who have been successful in their application for funding to enable them to progress their proposals towards developing a business case, have been published on GOV.UK and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/re-opening-beeching-era-lines-and-stations/re-opening-beeching-era-lines-and-stations
The second round closed on 19 June and we received 50 bids which are listed in the link above.
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