A potential scheme to restore some of the county's long-lost railways is being explored by a local MP, Derbyshire Live can exclusively reveal.

Sarah Dines, the new MP for Derbyshire Dales, has met with the Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps to discuss the possibility of reconnecting towns and cities with rail links that vanished in the 1960s.

Derbyshire Live can exclusively reveal that at the top of Mrs Dines' priority list would be the Matlock to Buxton Line, which was shut down in 1968 by the Labour Minister for Transport Barbara Castle.