Yorkshire railway team win EU cash to help extend the line

Yorkshire Wolds Railway have been given EU cash to help with rebuilding of the line

After two years of work involved in bidding for money from the EU, the Yorkshire Wolds Railway has announced the successful awarding of £75,000 which will enable it to start extending from its current base at Fimber near Driffield in East Yorkshire.

Together with funds already raised and donated the project will cost almost £100,000 and will help to reinstate part of the former Malton and Driffield Junction Railway that closed in 1958.

Directors Phil Robson and Richard Dixon have worked on the LEADER project application for two years.

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