Green light nearer for bid to re-open vital rail link between Yorkshire and Lancashire
Measuring 11-and-a-half miles from end to end, it represents little more than a thousandth of the length of the UK’s total rail network.
But the line between Skipton in North Yorkshire and the town of Colne, over the border in Lancashire, has been the subject of years of determined efforts to bring it back into use since being closed in February 1970.
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