UK Government has been asked to help build a new North Wales train station with a fund to help reverse the Beeching cuts - while other proposals have also been pushed forward.
Published in 1963, the Beeching Report was followed by the closure of almost 2,500 stations and around 5,000 miles of track.
This year the UK Department for Transport launched a £500 million Restoring Your Railway Fund - available to restore or build new lines and stations in England and Wales.
UK Government put £20m of the funding into the New Stations Fund 3.
Welsh Government transport minister Ken Skates has now put in a bid for a share of the fund to go towards four Welsh stations - including a new one at Deeside Parkway, on the Borderlands Line.
Under the proposals they would be ready by early 2024.
The Transport Minister also invited the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to discuss further priorities for rail investment, including new stations at Greenfield and Magor.
He put forward suggestions for the New Ideas Fund, including the restoration of passenger services on the line between Gaerwen and Amlwch on Anglesey.
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He also took the opportunity to reiterate the case strongly for plans which included the Aberystwyth – Carmarthen and Bangor – Caernarfon re-openings.
On the four stations, Ken Skates wrote: “In combination, which is why I have not prioritised between them, the Transport for Wales report demonstrates a compelling case for all four to be developed as an integrated programme to improve access to the rail network across the regions of Wales.
"They will make a major contribution to improved rail connectivity, supercharge our post Covid19 recovery, and develop our public transport for the future. Our new station openings will be key to Building Back Better.”
The other three sites bidding for New Stations Fund 3 are:
- Carno, on the Cambrian Mainline in Mid Wales
- St Clears on the Great Western Mainline in West Wales
- Ely Mill on the City Line in Cardiff, in South Wales