Robert Largan, the MP for High Peak, has welcomed the Government’s announcement of £20 million for the third round of the New Stations Fund. 

Bidding for this funding has begun and will continue for the next three months. This is an opportunity for a fresh bid for a railway station at Gamesley on the Manchester to Glossop line. This would bring more jobs and investment into the area and improve the notoriously poor transport links in Gamesley. It would also help reduce traffic in the whole Glossop area and reduce parking pressure at both Dinting and Broadbottom stations.

The High Peak MP has written to High Peak Borough Council, Derbyshire County Council, Transport for Greater Manchester, and the Mayor of Greater Manchester to encourage them to work together in supporting the bid for a station at Gamesley. 

In addition, the High Peak MP has written to the Local Enterprise Partnership for Derbyshire, Northern Rail, Network Rail, and the Minister for Rail, urging them to support the bid.

Robert Largan MP said:

“Before I was elected, the proposal for a station at Gamesley hadn’t even been mentioned in Parliament since 1968. I’ve already raised it 5 times in Parliament and firmly put it back on the agenda down in Westminster. 

“When people first moved to Gamesley, they were told that a station would soon be built. That was over 50 years ago and the people of Gamesley are still waiting.

“I believe it is time to honour this promise and build a station for Gamesley.”