Originally Posted by egnxema
Please someone hurry up and get the East Midlands Parkway Station built!! Any news on that?? The MML website hasn't been updated for a while!
The synergy for the East Midlands Airport Parkway station has, to some degree, been lost since the National Express Group (who used to own both EMA and MML) sold the airport. I don't suppose the now funded plans for dualling the A453 has helped speed progress either. None the less, the Parkway station is still on the agenda. However, MML's franchise is up for renewal next year, when the existing franchise (broadly Sheffield/Derby/Nottingham to London) will almost certainly be merged with a part of Central Trains network, the new combined franchise covering most passenger rail services in and from/to the East Midlands. No progress will be made on the Parkway station until the new franchise is awarded, because the existing franchise holder (NEG) won't get return on investment in the period they have remaining. Whilst I don't think that it has been stated as such to date, construction of the Parkway station
could potentially be included as a provision in the new franchise.