Rishi Sunak says money saved from scrapping HS2 will be reinvested in the Shropshire line.
An MP has welcomed the announcement that scrapping HS2 will enable the reopening of a historic railway line.
Helen Morgan, MP for North Shropshire, said she was "absolutely thrilled" the government had committed to opening the line between Oswestry and Gobowen.Rishi Sunak has announced money from the cancelled HS2 project will be reinvested in reopening the line., including £250m for schemes such as Shrewsbury's North West Relief Road., with proposals having been presented to the government for a light railway to link Oswestry up with the main line at Gobowen.
"We've got 20,000 people in Oswestry with no train service, so getting them connected into the line is really good and I'm thrilled," she said. She told BBC Radio Shropshire the strategic outline business case had looked at the catchment area for the station and had concluded it was a "good value money project to invest in"."And we need to get people who live in Oswestry accessing all the things that are available to them in a much wider area," she added.Follow BBC West Midlands on
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