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    Jan 05, 2021 3 minutes

    Midland Main Line electrification proposed 40 years ago!

    I VERY much agree with your editorial concerning the lack of sensible thinking when it comes to railway investment.

    It is, after all, 40 years since Sir Peter Parker proposed a rolling programme of electrification that could have seen much of the network electrified by 2000.

    Many years ago, I wrote a report on behalf of Sheffield City Council at the time suggesting electrification should be seen as part of a 'levelling-up' exercise, as well as one that developed a genuine network of

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