New funding keeps Melton railway plan on track

It will pay for further economic and transport studies to develop a business case to deliver a one service per hour train provision on the Syston track.

The initiative was one of only 13 successful bids in the second tranche of the Reversing Beeching Programme - which aims to reopen services closed in the 1960s as part of swingeing cuts across the UK railway network.

Melton MP, Alicia Kearns, who has been pursuing the Melton Mowbray case, said: “Meltonians deserve reliable and efficient transport options to travel for work and leisure, and so our wonderful area can welcome more tourists and day-trippers when our country has healed.

“I’m delighted that my bid to improve Melton’s train connections to Loughborough, Leicester and Nottingham has been successful in the first stage of the process.”

News is still awaited on a bid to increase services on the Poacher Line at Bottesford.