it also creates the possibility of one or more Pax platforms to allow pax to arrive by train too.
Why on earth would you want to do this when there is a perfectly good passenger station at the Parkway?
There can't be a business case for putting passenger platforms here.There are NO proposals in any of the documentation to handle any passenger traffic.
If you look at the plans, the proposed rail link involves a terminus in the area, not through running lines. Therefore the only passengers on the train would be those going to EMA......The numbers at present at Parkway are quite small, but at least the trains that stop there are through running and have plenty of passengers staying on board going to and from several destinations with all the revenue that brings.
In addition, according to the plans, the rail link will be a westward facing link from the freight only line to Stenson Jct, which would only allow trains from Stoke and Burton/ Birmingham direct access the site. There is no eastward facing connection which would allow trains to run to Nottingham whilst Derby cannot be accessed at all without a new chord being built at Stenson. The scenario is for 12-16 freightliner trains a day into the terminal when fully open - I would suggest that it would be very difficult to path passenger services in here as well