Re: Corby

From: Roland Perry <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:14:21 +0000

In message <1193848665.776526.291310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, at 09:37:45 on Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Kesterj <Kesterj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> remarked:

>> (What a tragedy they closed Melton to Nottingham, or rather, the
>> northern bit.)

>Nottingham Edwalton Parkway anyone?

Tollerton Parkway, perhaps - there's a load of houses built on the old
Edwalton station site.

Would make a lot of sense (and not just because it would be the next
nearest station to where I live!) Plenty of land available in the
triangle between the A606 and A52.

And with dedicated bus links to EMA and Nottingham (city and
station)?

Ah, but we are talking of England.

Nottingham has a very good bus service. There are several middle-distance services which already pass the potential site, and one of NCT's "every 10 minute" services terminates about 5 minutes away (just the other side of the golf course). I would be very optimistic that a station located there would be well connected by bus.

Not quite so sure about EMA, which is soon (oink oink) to be served by EMA Parkway. But you could change from the city services mentioned above, to the existing EMA bus, at Trent Bridge (without needing to go all the way into the city centre).
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Roland Perry
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