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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
Tom Pegden

£1m to develop downgraded East Midlands HS2 plans

A new strategy to make the most of the recently downgraded plans for HS2 in the East Midlands is being drawn up.

Last autumn it was announced the eastern leg of the high speed track coming out of Birmingham would only go as far as East Midlands Parkway station.

It was also announced that the updated plans would also see the full electrification of the existing Midland Main Line north of Market Harborough to Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield.

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