Tresidder published Is the Government about to make U-turn on Midlands Mainline...

Talk to East Midland MPs and business leaders and they fear the Government is about to renege on a promise to electrify the Midland Mainline between St Pancras and Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield. It was a promise made by David Cameron and George Osborne, no less, when Prime Minister and Chancellor respectivelyEast Midlands MPs met trains minister Paul Maynard at the Department for Transport (DfT), seeking reassurance that the promise of electrification along the entire route by 2023 would be...