Government urged to power up 4,300 jobs with Midland Mainline electrification
Regional leaders, MPs and the biggest business organisation in the East Midlands have joined forces to urge government to power up plans to electrify more sections of the Midland Mainline railway.
They say that more than 4,000 skilled jobs could be created if government signs off plans to electrify parts of the line which go north of South Wigston in Leicestershire.
Industry experts say the most cost-effective way to deliver on those plans will be to let the firms and workers who have been building electrification infrastructure... 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...
