Future plans at airport March 21, 2018
Future rail plans which could connect the East Coast Main Line to Doncaster Sheffield (Robin Hood) Airport are part of a future transport strategy unveiled to the public at a Transport for the North consultation event at the airport at Finningley, near Doncaster.The airport also chose the occasion to launch its own strategy document entitled "A northern vision for a connected national economy" detailing the rail proposals which it estimates will create 73,000 new jobs.
Among plans is a loop from the East Coast Main Line to provide a station at the airport.
The airport is already sandwiched between the East Coast Main Line and the line from Doncaster to Lincoln, so a new rail link would cost only a tiny fraction of the amount being spent on expanding travel connections to London airports. Even with the plan for HS2 passing through the
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