Rishi Sunak visited the site of the new Haxby railway station.
The original station closed in 1930, but plans to reopen it were part of Prime Minister’s ‘Network North’ plan that diverted money from the partly ditched HS2 project.
Mr Sunak met the chief executive of Network Rail Andrew Haines and York Outer MP Julian Sturdy at the site which is on the York to Scarborough line.
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