But the YEP understands that Network Rail has now provisionally agreed to meet £5m of the £16m cost.


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Today it also emerged that the plans are due to go before the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly's regional transport board at the end of next week.
Support from the transport board would significantly improve the project's chances of securing the remaining £11m it needs from central government.

At present there is no direct access to the station from Holbeck, with the forbidding Dark Arches providing the quickest route to the main entrance off City Square.
Under current proposals, however, a high-capacity lift would be installed to whisk passengers from Granary Wharf up to the station.
An elevated walkway would connect the lift to the station's main footbridge, while a separate ticket and information hall would also be put in place.
If all goes according to plan, then work is expected to start on site by 2011.
The proposals are being spearheaded by West Yorkshire's passenger transport authority, Metro.
Director general Kieran Preston says giving commuters direct access to flagship developments like Bridgewater Place would be a "key element" of the drive to regenerate the area to the south of the city centre.
Other West Yorkshire-based schemes which the regional transport board will be looking at next Friday include:
* New stations at Kirkstall Forge and Apperley Bridge;
* Widespread improvements to Bradford Interchange;
* Hundreds of extra park and ride spaces on the Harrogate, York, Pontefract, Huddersfield, Caldervale and Airedale lines.
The regional transport board's members include representatives from councils, business and organisations like the Highways Agency.
Schemes they endorse are submitted to the Department for Transport for a decision on central government funding.
A spokesman for Network Rail, the company responsible for Britain's railway infrastructure, said it was keen to see the Leeds City Station project go ahead as it would be of considerable benefit to passengers.