It is vital for our region
Leaders have called for a clear timetable on HS2's arrival in the East Midlands as a new report claims each year of delay could cost the region billions of pounds. A Government minister reiterated the commitment to bring high-speed travel to the East Midlands Parkway station at Ratcliffe on Soar during an event in Derby on Monday .
But the Chair of Midlands Connect, Sir John Peace, told Nottinghamshire Live at Monday's event in Derby that 18 months on from this plan being published, progress was now needed. Sir John said: "What we're going to have to keep doing all the way through to 2030 and beyond is to keep reminding Government that this is the plan that we are all expecting to be delivered over that period of time.
The original plans would have seen an East Midlands Railway Hub being built in Toton, but the Integrated Rail Plan confirmed that much of HS2's eastern leg had been scrapped. The eastern leg would also have originally seen trains continue from the East Midlands Parkway to Leeds. "It's not necessarily the big money investment but from my perspective, HS2 is not about getting from A to B five minutes faster. It's about the growth and investment that comes around stations in particular, whether that's Parkway, Nottingham, Derby or Chesterfield."
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