HC Deb 20 December 1989 vol 164 cc274-5W
Mr. Snape

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if any experimentally re-opened lines or stations have subsequently closed.

Mr. Portillo

No.

Mr. Snape

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list in separate categories for England, Scotland and Wales the lines and stations now opened or re-opened under the 1981 amendment to the Transport Act as agreed between his Department and British Rail(a) sections of line re-opened, (b) stations on re-opened lines and (c) stations on lines previously open and subsequently experimentally re-opened; and if he will give the total mileage of railway re-opened since 1981 under these provisions.

Mr. Portillo

The following lines have been re-opened by British Rail under the Transport Act 1962 (Amendment) Act 1981:

England

  • Penistone to Barnsley
  • Kettering to Corby
  • Dore Curve (Derbyshire)
  • Morecambe to Heysham Harbour
  • Oxford to Bicester
  • Coventry to Nuneaton
  • Lichfield City to Lichfield Trent Valley
  • Bishop Auckland to Stanhope
  • Walsall to Hednesford
  • Altrincham to Stockport

Scotland

  • Newbridge Junction to Bathgate
  • Coatbridge Central to Motherwell
    • 275
  • Thornton West Junction to Thornton South Junction (Fife)

Wales

  • Cardiff City
  • Abercynon to Aberdare (approximately 91 miles)

The following stations have been opened or re-opened on these lines:

England

  • Corby
  • Heysham Harbour
  • Bicester Town Bedworth
  • Lichfield Trent Valley
  • Stanhope
  • Hednesford
  • Cannock
  • Landywood
  • Bloxwich
  • Broad Lane

Scotland

  • Uphall
  • Livingstone North
  • Bathgate

Wales

  • Ninian Park
  • Penrhiwceiber
  • Mountain Ash
  • Cwmbach
  • Fernhill
  • Aberdare
  • Waun-gron Park

The decision to re-open a station or line is a matter for the board and does not need ministerial approval.