A pressure group will hold a meeting to discuss the next step in a lengthy campaign for a new railway station in Bradford.
Bradford Rail Users Group (BRUG) will step up its campaign for the station at Low Moor, on the Caldervale Line, after the Yorkshire Regional Transport Board (RTB) agreed to include the £6 million scheme in the “priority” list.
That means that if a major project elsewhere in Yorkshire does not go ahead, the Low Moor scheme will be one of those considered to receive money from the RTB budget.
Councillor Anne Hawkes-worth, Bradford Council’s representative on the RTB, said there was a “very, very good chance” the scheme would be agreed because it was small-scale and for much-needed public transport.
Plans to re-open the intermediate station have been on the drawing board since the 1990s.
Bradford Rail Users Group (BRUG) chairman, Philip Ferriby said it was “appalling” that nothing had been done to re-open the station before now.
He said BRUG was holding a meeting at Bradford Voluntary Services Centre in Sunbridge Road at 7.30pm on Monday.
Mr Ferriby said: “It is appalling that they are not pushing harder for a station at Low Moor.
“In Haxby, near York, they have been given £7.54m to re-open a station there but we just seem to be getting no money every time. It is not on. So re-opening the Low Moor station is going to be the main subject for discussion.”
Residents and councillors have been pressing for funding to try to get the Low Moor station scheme approved.
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