£30 million project to restore rail services to Aldridge for the first time in nearly 60 years takes major step forward
The £30 million project to restore rail services to Aldridge for the first time in nearly 60 years have taken a major step forward after securing Government backing.
The Department for Transport has given conditional approval to start work on an outline business case to build and open a station on the Sutton Park line to provide direct passenger services to Walsall.
It means that funding can now be drawn down to take the project, which is being led by Transport for West Midlands and the West Midlands Rail Executive, to the next more detailed design, and development phase.
TfWM, part of the West Midlands Combined Authority, is funding the development from its £1.3 billion City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement.
The town sits on the freight only Sutton Park Line between Walsall and east Birmingham which closed to passenger services as part of the Beeching cuts in 1965.
