Design work on the £1.75bn Midlands Rail Hub project is set to start after the government provided an extra £123m.

Midlands Rail Hub, the region's flagship rail improvement scheme, will serve more than 50 stations, covering seven million ...

The Midlands Rail Hub will create a doubling of services to Leicester and Birmingham, adding four additional trains an hour, or 48 extra trains a day, and 4.1 million extra seats a year for passengers ...