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Not sure about realigning the ECML though, surely they mean an extension off the Gainsborough line back onto the ECML? (not sure how much green ink, etc ... )
Doncaster Sheffield Airport plans to compete with major rivals such as Manchester airport by opening a train station that will speed up its links with the South-East.
The airport hopes the Government will support its plans for a new railway station, which would mean that travellers from London Kings Cross could arrive at the airport in about 90 minutes.
The airports bosses say the planned station would ease congestion on cross-London rail routes by encouraging more people to fly from the relatively quiet airspace above Doncaster Sheffield.
A report about the airports future The Vision for Transformational Growth says: Government support for these proposals would demonstrate a strategic and better balanced approach to the provision of future air capacity for the long term.
The airport, which is owned by Peel Group, said that initial estimates suggested it could cost between £100m and £150m to re-align the nearby East Coast main line and create a station by the airport.
Not sure about realigning the ECML though, surely they mean an extension off the Gainsborough line back onto the ECML? (not sure how much green ink, etc ... )