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'A real step forward for the campaign to restore Ivanhoe Line'
Burton Mail
|February 04, 2026
EFFORTS to restore passenger services to the Ivanhoe Line have taken a “real step forward”, a Labour MP has claimed.
Amanda Hack, below, the MP for North West Leicestershire, made the claim after securing a Westminster Hall debate today on restoring the rail line.
The line has not served passengers since it was axed as part of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
All campaigns to bring back passenger trains to the area in the decades since have failed, with the most recent by the Campaign for the Reopening of the Ivanhoe Line (CRIL) group getting scrapped by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves after a business case was submitted to the Conservative government's Restoring Your Railway initiative.
This story is from the February 04, 2026 edition of Burton Mail.
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