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Radio Cumbria,7 mins
Carlisle Border Railway step closer to reopening
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But new feasibility study is not an open and shut case. If the economic argument stacks up trains could be running within 7 to 10 years, according to an industry expert. When the line to Edinburgh was shut in 1969 it sparked bitter protests, and campaigners have lobbied to reopen it, with the northern section reopened to traffic in 2015. Getty Images: Science and Society Picture Library
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