 This would require a three-mile rail restoration.In January 2009, the "Liverpool Echo" newspaper reported that recommendations have been put to councillors to endorse the £60m plan to build a new railway station in Skelmersdale, reconnecting the town with Liverpool.In June 2009, the Association of Train Operating Companies, in its report, called for funding for the reopening of this station as part of a £500m scheme to open 33 stations on 14 lines closed in the Beeching Axe, including seven new parkway stations.