The Leader of the House of Commons has said that reopening Ferryhill Railway Station would help the next generation of young people to find work and socialise.
Mark Spencer paid a visit to County Durham on Thursday, August 25 to see the potential new site for the railway station which has been closed for more than 50 years. Ferryhill Station closed in 1969 following the controversial Beeching era cuts to investment.
However, the station is one of nine projects in the country to get a share of £500 million in Government funding from the Restoring your Railway fund to progress the proposal. If successful, the station would link the community to Teesside and become the first step in the proposal for the Leamside Line reopening to connect the community to Newcastle and Sunderland.
