Local politicians have hailed the Portishead Railway as 100% happening at last, after the government gave the scheme its backing today.<br /><br />Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has announced today that the project to reopen the railway will receive the multi-million pound government investment it needs to make it happen. The long-awaited scheme will see new stations built in Portishead and Pill and the railway, which closed to passengers in 1964, connecting the town and village to Bristol once again.
