Prime Minister must ‘switch-on’ full electrification of Midland Mainline
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been urged to "switch on" the East Midlands rail network as fast as possible by accelerating work to electrify the region’s main link to London.
The Midland Mainline carries 3.75 million passenger journeys a year between Chesterfield, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and London, but trains still have to travel on diesel power for part of the journey – impacting emissions, reliability and the time it takes to travel.
While the Midland Mainline section between London and Bedford was switched to elect... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
