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Passengers will benefit from faster journey times, more frequent rail services and better connectivity across the North.

• Updated: 25 March 2024

£13.5 million from the Levelling Up Fund has been provisionally allocated to West Devon for a new railway station on the eastern edge of Okehampton.

• Updated: 8 March 2024

Plans for a new station at St Athan will restore services to the area for the first time in 60 years and reconnect thousands to jobs, education and business opportunities.

• Updated: 19 February 2024

£20 million from the Levelling Up Fund will ensure the delivery of three transformative project in Earlestown.

• Updated: 19 February 2024

Almost £50 million from the Levelling Up Fund has been allocated to the Mid Cornwall Metro project.

• Updated: 19 February 2024

New platform at Forster Square Station to increase rail services, reduce delays and better connect the city.

• Updated: 30 January 2024

Plans for a fully integrated public transport system in Merseyside one step closer as Liverpool’s new, government-funded rail station opens.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

New station to improve connectivity, benefitting education and business in the UK’s ‘City of Culture’.

• Updated: 14 November 2023

£50 million from the Levelling Up Fund has been provisionally allocated to Cardiff Council, in partnership with Transport for Wales, to improve public transport in the city. The funding will improve connectivity to and from …

• Updated: 1 November 2023

Plans for the allocation are to regenerate the area around the train station – known as Station Quarter.

• Updated: 23 October 2023

Multi-million-pound Portway Park and Ride station will provide easier access to jobs and businesses in Bristol and the South West.

• Updated: 31 July 2023

Study will assess potential options to run HS2 trains into Leeds city centre and reassess evidence to improve connectivity in Bradford.

• Updated: 17 July 2023

Passengers in South West England will benefit from a new station and more reliable train journeys that will boost local and regional connections.

• Updated: 3 July 2023

New train station to boost jobs and homes in the area and bring together world-leading academics at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

• Updated: 5 June 2023

This package will improve the passenger experience by having more reliable trains and fewer delays.

• Updated: 25 May 2023

A study has been announced that will develop options for new stations and services on the South Wales Main Line.

• Updated: 2 February 2023

Leicester train station is the gateway to the city. The culturally significant building was built in 1894 but is now in need of investment. Over £17 million from the Levelling Up Fund will return the station to its Victorian…

• Updated: 17 January 2023

On Monday 14 November 2022, the application for the Portishead Branch Line – MetroWest Phase 1 was granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Transport. 

• Updated: 15 November 2022

Nine rail schemes receive further funding to provide better access to jobs, homes and education, and level up and reconnect communities.

• Updated: 20 June 2022

Funding to reopen disused railway lines, services and stations will restore community connections and improve access to jobs, homes and education.

• Updated: 18 June 2022