Durham County Council announce start of work on Horden/Peterlee station:-
Work is now underway on a new £10.55 million railway station which is expected to bring an economic boost to east Durham.
Ray Browning, Anna Weeks, Jonjo Ward, Cllr Simon Henig, Cllr Carl Marshall our Cabinet member for economic regeneration, and Stuart Timmiss our head of development and housing
The scheme, at Horden, near Peterlee, will link the area into the local, regional and national rail network and support wider regeneration in the area.We have been working closely with Network Rail and Northern Railway on the project, which is being funded by the authority, with £4.4 million from the Department for Transport’s New Stations Fund and a grant from the North East Local Enterprise Partnership LEP.
Representatives from the organisations involved gathered at the site on South East View to mark the start of work, which is expected to take about a year to complete