Originally Posted by
egnxema
they airport should be pressing Midland Mainline for a completion date for the Parkway Station
Midland Mainline are not going to build the Parkway station as they won't be around by then. Their francise runs out next year, and the contruction of the station will become a condition of the new "East Midlands" franchise which starts later next year and which will combine the services of the current Midland Mainline and east-midlands Central Trains operation. Whoever wins the franchise (there are, I believe, three bidders - National Express, First Group, and another) will be required to build the station by the end of 2008.
Andy