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{{Infobox Rail companies |bgcolor=FFFFFF|image_filename=222_passing_through_Loughborough.jpg|widthpx=300px|franchise=Midland Mainline
April 1996 – 11th November 2007|logo_filename=Midland Mainline logo.gif|nameforarea=Region|regions=East Midlands,
Yorkshire and the Humber|fleet=23 [British Rail Class 222 sets
28 British Rail Class 43 (HST) power cars|stations=27 (7 operated)|parent_company=National Express Group train operating company owned by the [National Express Group, created after the privatisation of British Rail. Midland Mainline services started in April 1996. Midland Mainline operations are based in Derby.

Midland Mainline runs fast and semi-fast passenger services from London, England to the East Midlands and Yorkshire, on the Midland Main Line. Its London terminal is St Pancras railway station which it currently uses exclusively.

Most services run between London and either Sheffield, Derby, or Nottingham. Some services extend to Leeds, Barnsley and Burton upon Trent.

Midland Mainline operates as far North as Scarborough, North Yorkshire during part of the summer timetable on Saturdays only, with the service only operating to York on Sundays, and throughout the winter timetable on Saturdays.

The company also operates a Rail-Link Bus from the town of Corby to Kettering railway station.

On 22 June 2007, the Department for Transport announced that Midland Mainline had lost the franchise to operate these services from 11 November 2007. Services will be transferred to East Midlands Trains, operated by Stagecoach. Midland Mainline will then cease to operate.

Service patterns The off peak service pattern, as of September 2007, consists of four departures per hour from St Pancras. There are two 'fast' and two 'semi-fast' trains per hour. The hourly pattern from St Pancras is as below:

xx00: semi-fast to Derby, calling at:

• Luton Airport Parkway
• Bedford railway station
• Wellingborough railway station
• Kettering railway station
• Market Harborough railway station
• Leicester railway station
• Loughborough railway station
• Long Eaton railway station
• Derby railway station

with a journey time of 1 hour 56 minutes.

• Extension to Burton upon Trent railway station calling at:
• Willington railway station
• Burton upon Trent railway station

with a journey time of 2 hours 26 minutes.

• Extension to Barnsley railway station, generally calling at:
• Belper railway station
• Chesterfield railway station
• Dronfield occasional service
• Sheffield railway station
• Meadowhall railway station
• Barnsley railway station

with a journey time around 3 hours 14 minutes.

• Extension to Scarborough railway station (Saturdays). This service calls at Scarborough during part of the summer timetable only, all other times this service terminates at York railway station. This service calls at:
• Chesterfield railway station
• Sheffield railway station
• Meadowhall railway station
• Doncaster railway station
• York railway station
• Scarborough railway station

with a journey time of 4 hours 46 minutes to Scarborough and 3 hours 56 minutes to York.

This service is operated by a four or five car British Rail Class 222.

xx25: fast to Sheffield railway station, generally calling just at:

• Leicester railway station
• Derby railway station
• Chesterfield railway station
• Sheffield railway station

with a journey time around 2 hours 21 minutes.

• This train forms the limited (see below) extension to Leeds generally calling at:
• Doncaster railway station
• Wakefield railway station
• Leeds railway station

with a journey time of 3 hours 17 minutes

• Extension to York railway station (Sundays) calling at:
• Doncaster railway station
• York railway station

with a journey time of 2 hours 14 minutes from Leicester railway station

This service is generally operated by a British Rail Class 43 (HST), although a few diagrams use an British Rail Class 222

xx30: semi-fast to Nottingham railway station, calling at:

• Luton railway station
• Bedford railway station
• Wellingborough railway station
• Kettering railway station
• Market Harborough railway station
• Leicester railway station
• Loughborough railway station
• Beeston railway station
• Nottingham railway station

with a journey time of 1 hour 56 minutes.

This service is operated by a four or five car British Rail Class 222

xx55: fast to Nottingham railway station, generally calling at:

• Leicester railway station
• Loughborough railway station (every hour or two).
• Nottingham railway station

with a journey time of 1 hour 41 minutes.

This service is generally operated by an British Rail Class 222 although sometimes a diagram uses a British Rail Class 43 (HST),

• All Midland Mainline services (except The Master Cutler morning 'up' service) call at Leicester railway station with the fastest journey time to and from London of 1 hour 9 minutes.

• The services between London, Luton and Bedford supplement the high frequency Thameslink now known as First Capital Connect commuter service. The Midland Main Line between London and Bedford is electrified.

Limited Services

There is a limited service between St Pancras railway station and Leeds railway station, with three early morning departures from Leeds and four evening return trips from St Pancras. This is principally because the main maintenance depot for the Midland Mainline HST power cars is the Maintrain depot at Neville Hill in Leeds.

The service does not compare favourably with the principal service from London, England to Leeds along the East Coast Main Line operated by Great North Eastern Railway. The Midland Main Line has a much slower line speed. The journey time on the Midland route is around 3 hours 17 minutes.

Midland Mainline had plans for a regular service between London St Pancras and Leeds via Nottingham railway station, the Erewash Valley, Sheffield railway station and Barnsley railway station but these were rejected by the Strategic Rail Authority.

A small number of trains operate between London St Pancras and Sheffield railway station via Nottingham railway station and along the Erewash Valley to Chesterfield serving Langley Mill railway station and Alfreton railway station.

There are also a small number of through trains between St Pancras and Burton upon Trent railway station, Belper railway station, and Barnsley railway station.

Midland Mainline operates summer weekend services between London, England and Scarborough railway station on Saturdays providing the only through service between the capital and the North Yorkshire coast, and York railway station on Sundays.

There are no longer through trains between London St Pancras and Matlock railway station as the British Rail Class 222 units are not allowed on the Derwent Valley Line branch line, unlike the British Rail Class 170 which previously operated the route.

There is also a Saturday service from London to York at 06:20 and arriving at 10:16. It forms the first service of the day out of St Pancras. The return trip is at 17:49 and arriving at London at 21:52. The service goes via Doncaster as opposed to Leeds. On Sunday, the service to York runs from Leicester rather than London, with the return service being via the Erewash Valley to Nottingham, where it reverses to call at all MML stations (except Loughborough and Luton Airport Parkway) to London.

Project Rio During 2003/4, Midland Mainline operated a temporary service between St Pancras railway station and Manchester Piccadilly station whilst the West Coast Main Line between Manchester and Euston station underwent engineering work.

This service was known as Project Rio, named after the footballer Rio Ferdinand who had made a record transfer to Manchester United F.C.. Reportedly , someone involved in the project at a senior level was a Manchester United fan (aficionado).

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley (avoiding Derby) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, which linked trains onto the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester.

The service ran from May 2003 and finished in September 2004. Former Virgin Cross-Country British Rail Class 43 (HST) sets were used and were quickly painted into Midland Mainline livery.

The service was run at the request of, and underwritten by, the SRA for a period of 1 year. While perhaps popular with a niche market, the total number of passengers per train frequently fell below a dozen between Leicester and Stockport. The considered success (or failure) of Project Rio is perhaps down to the existing Virgin London service still remaining considerably faster than the Hope Valley route, even taking into account the diversions during the engineering works.

Named Trains

• The Robin Hood on the 06:30 Sheffield to St. Pancras via Nottingham, and returning as the 17:00 St. Pancras to Nottingham.
• The Master Cutler on the 06:14 Leeds to St Pancras which runs non stop from Chesterfield, and 16:55 St. Pancras to Leeds return.
• The Midlands Express on the 07:05 Sheffield to St. Pancras.

Performance Categorised as a long distance operator Midland Mainline compares favourably to other operators in its category, with the highest Public Performance Measure: 91.5% for the last quarter of 2006http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/320.pdf, published by the Office of Rail Regulation. This is not a surprise, given that Midland Mainline was also awarded Passenger Operator of the Year 2006http://www.midlandmainline.com/mainpage.aspx?id=229.

Rolling Stock Midland Mainline has the following fleet. Current fleet {| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9! rowspan="2" |Class! rowspan="2" |Image! rowspan="2" |Type! colspan="2" |Top speed! rowspan="2" |Quantity! rowspan="2" |Unit numbers! rowspan="2" |Routes operated! rowspan="2" |Built|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9! mph ! km/h |-|British Rail Class 43 (HST)||Diesel Locomotive|1976 - 1982|-|[British Rail Class 222||diesel-electric multiple unit|2003|-|[British Rail Mark 3||Passenger [Rolling stock|1975 - 1988|}

Midland Mainline have the following named units / locos.

{| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9!colspan="2"|HST names|-|43049|Neville Hill|-|43069|Rio Enterprise|-|43072|Derby Etches Park|}

{| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9!colspan="2"|Meridian names|-|222004|[City of Sheffield|-|222006|[City of Leicester|}

Midland Mainline re-configured the Meridian units at the end of 2006 / start of 2007, reducing the nine-car sets to eight-car sets and increasing seven of the four-car sets to five-car sets to better provide for seating demand.

Past fleet {| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9| Class | Image | Type | Built | Withdrawn | Notes |-|British Rail Class 170||Diesel multiple unit company, [Central Trains in 2004 as British Rail Class 222 were brought into traffic. They are still in use today with midland mainline livery but with Central Trains branding.|}

Stations Served

• Midland Mainline operate at twenty seven stations, of which it manages eight:

St Pancras railway station, Wellingborough railway station, Kettering railway station, Market Harborough railway station, Leicester railway station, Derby Midland railway station, Chesterfield railway station and Sheffield railway station.

• Other stations served include:

Luton Airport Parkway railway station, Luton railway station, Bedford railway station, Loughborough railway station, Long Eaton railway station, Willington railway station, Burton upon Trent railway station, Beeston railway station, Nottingham railway station, Langley Mill railway station, Alfreton railway station, Dronfield railway station, Meadowhall Interchange, Barnsley railway station, Doncaster railway station, Wakefield Westgate railway station, Railway stations in Leeds,York railway station, Scarborough railway station.

Stations No Longer Served

• Stations which used to be served:

Duffield railway station, Ambergate railway station, Whatstandwell railway station, Cromford railway station, Matlock Bath railway station, Matlock railway station, Stockport railway station, Manchester Piccadilly station.

Future London St. Pancras Midland Mainline is currently the exclusive operator at St Pancras railway station. However, Eurostar will transfer its London - Paris/Brussels services from London Waterloo to St. Pancras in November 2007 once the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is fully operational. Following this, Southeastern (train operating company) will begin operating high speed domestic services on the CTRL from St. Pancras.

New East Midlands Franchise It was announced that the current Midland Mainline franchise will continue to operate until November 2007 as part of a franchise reshuffle in the Midlands. The new East Midlands franchise includes former Central Trains services in the East Midlands.

The Department for Transport announced on 19th September 2006 that four parties had pre-qualified for the new East Midlands franchise. On 31st October 2006 Invitations to Tender were issued to the following bidders:

• Arriva Trains East Midlands Limited (Arriva)
• First East Midlands Limited (First Group)
• NXE Trains Limited (National Express Group)
• Stagecoach Midland Rail Limited (Stagecoach Group)

On the 22 June, the Department for Transport announced that Stagecoach had won the franchise.

As National Express, the company that currently runs Midland Mainline has lost the franchise bid, from the 11 November 2007 all services will be transferred to East Midlands Trains and Midland Mainline will cease to exist. References External links

• Midland Mainline website

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{{Infobox Rail companies |bgcolor=FFFFFF|image_filename=222_passing_through_Loughborough.jpg|widthpx=300px|franchise=Midland Mainline
April 1996 – 11th November 2007|logo_filename=Midland Mainline logo.gif|nameforarea=Region|regions=East Midlands,
Yorkshire and the Humber|fleet=23 [British Rail Class 222 sets
28 British Rail Class 43 (HST) power cars|stations=27 (7 operated)|parent_company=National Express Group train operating company owned by the [National Express Group, created after the privatisation of British Rail. Midland Mainline services started in April 1996. Midland Mainline operations are based in Derby.

Midland Mainline runs fast and semi-fast passenger services from London, England to the East Midlands and Yorkshire, on the Midland Main Line. Its London terminal is St Pancras railway station which it currently uses exclusively.

Most services run between London and either Sheffield, Derby, or Nottingham. Some services extend to Leeds, Barnsley and Burton upon Trent.

Midland Mainline operates as far North as Scarborough, North Yorkshire during part of the summer timetable on Saturdays only, with the service only operating to York on Sundays, and throughout the winter timetable on Saturdays.

The company also operates a Rail-Link Bus from the town of Corby to Kettering railway station.

On 22 June 2007, the Department for Transport announced that Midland Mainline had lost the franchise to operate these services from 11 November 2007. Services will be transferred to East Midlands Trains, operated by Stagecoach. Midland Mainline will then cease to operate.

Service patterns The off peak service pattern, as of September 2007, consists of four departures per hour from St Pancras. There are two 'fast' and two 'semi-fast' trains per hour. The hourly pattern from St Pancras is as below:

xx00: semi-fast to Derby, calling at:

• Luton Airport Parkway
• Bedford railway station
• Wellingborough railway station
• Kettering railway station
• Market Harborough railway station
• Leicester railway station
• Loughborough railway station
• Long Eaton railway station
• Derby railway station

with a journey time of 1 hour 56 minutes.

• Extension to Burton upon Trent railway station calling at:
• Willington railway station
• Burton upon Trent railway station

with a journey time of 2 hours 26 minutes.

• Extension to Barnsley railway station, generally calling at:
• Belper railway station
• Chesterfield railway station
• Dronfield occasional service
• Sheffield railway station
• Meadowhall railway station
• Barnsley railway station

with a journey time around 3 hours 14 minutes.

• Extension to Scarborough railway station (Saturdays). This service calls at Scarborough during part of the summer timetable only, all other times this service terminates at York railway station. This service calls at:
• Chesterfield railway station
• Sheffield railway station
• Meadowhall railway station
• Doncaster railway station
• York railway station
• Scarborough railway station

with a journey time of 4 hours 46 minutes to Scarborough and 3 hours 56 minutes to York.

This service is operated by a four or five car British Rail Class 222.

xx25: fast to Sheffield railway station, generally calling just at:

• Leicester railway station
• Derby railway station
• Chesterfield railway station
• Sheffield railway station

with a journey time around 2 hours 21 minutes.

• This train forms the limited (see below) extension to Leeds generally calling at:
• Doncaster railway station
• Wakefield railway station
• Leeds railway station

with a journey time of 3 hours 17 minutes

• Extension to York railway station (Sundays) calling at:
• Doncaster railway station
• York railway station

with a journey time of 2 hours 14 minutes from Leicester railway station

This service is generally operated by a British Rail Class 43 (HST), although a few diagrams use an British Rail Class 222

xx30: semi-fast to Nottingham railway station, calling at:

• Luton railway station
• Bedford railway station
• Wellingborough railway station
• Kettering railway station
• Market Harborough railway station
• Leicester railway station
• Loughborough railway station
• Beeston railway station
• Nottingham railway station

with a journey time of 1 hour 56 minutes.

This service is operated by a four or five car British Rail Class 222

xx55: fast to Nottingham railway station, generally calling at:

• Leicester railway station
• Loughborough railway station (every hour or two).
• Nottingham railway station

with a journey time of 1 hour 41 minutes.

This service is generally operated by an British Rail Class 222 although sometimes a diagram uses a British Rail Class 43 (HST),

• All Midland Mainline services (except The Master Cutler morning 'up' service) call at Leicester railway station with the fastest journey time to and from London of 1 hour 9 minutes.

• The services between London, Luton and Bedford supplement the high frequency Thameslink now known as First Capital Connect commuter service. The Midland Main Line between London and Bedford is electrified.

Limited Services

There is a limited service between St Pancras railway station and Leeds railway station, with three early morning departures from Leeds and four evening return trips from St Pancras. This is principally because the main maintenance depot for the Midland Mainline HST power cars is the Maintrain depot at Neville Hill in Leeds.

The service does not compare favourably with the principal service from London, England to Leeds along the East Coast Main Line operated by Great North Eastern Railway. The Midland Main Line has a much slower line speed. The journey time on the Midland route is around 3 hours 17 minutes.

Midland Mainline had plans for a regular service between London St Pancras and Leeds via Nottingham railway station, the Erewash Valley, Sheffield railway station and Barnsley railway station but these were rejected by the Strategic Rail Authority.

A small number of trains operate between London St Pancras and Sheffield railway station via Nottingham railway station and along the Erewash Valley to Chesterfield serving Langley Mill railway station and Alfreton railway station.

There are also a small number of through trains between St Pancras and Burton upon Trent railway station, Belper railway station, and Barnsley railway station.

Midland Mainline operates summer weekend services between London, England and Scarborough railway station on Saturdays providing the only through service between the capital and the North Yorkshire coast, and York railway station on Sundays.

There are no longer through trains between London St Pancras and Matlock railway station as the British Rail Class 222 units are not allowed on the Derwent Valley Line branch line, unlike the British Rail Class 170 which previously operated the route.

There is also a Saturday service from London to York at 06:20 and arriving at 10:16. It forms the first service of the day out of St Pancras. The return trip is at 17:49 and arriving at London at 21:52. The service goes via Doncaster as opposed to Leeds. On Sunday, the service to York runs from Leicester rather than London, with the return service being via the Erewash Valley to Nottingham, where it reverses to call at all MML stations (except Loughborough and Luton Airport Parkway) to London.

Project Rio During 2003/4, Midland Mainline operated a temporary service between St Pancras railway station and Manchester Piccadilly station whilst the West Coast Main Line between Manchester and Euston station underwent engineering work.

This service was known as Project Rio, named after the footballer Rio Ferdinand who had made a record transfer to Manchester United F.C.. Reportedly , someone involved in the project at a senior level was a Manchester United fan (aficionado).

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley (avoiding Derby) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, which linked trains onto the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester.

The service ran from May 2003 and finished in September 2004. Former Virgin Cross-Country British Rail Class 43 (HST) sets were used and were quickly painted into Midland Mainline livery.

The service was run at the request of, and underwritten by, the SRA for a period of 1 year. While perhaps popular with a niche market, the total number of passengers per train frequently fell below a dozen between Leicester and Stockport. The considered success (or failure) of Project Rio is perhaps down to the existing Virgin London service still remaining considerably faster than the Hope Valley route, even taking into account the diversions during the engineering works.

Named Trains

• The Robin Hood on the 06:30 Sheffield to St. Pancras via Nottingham, and returning as the 17:00 St. Pancras to Nottingham.
• The Master Cutler on the 06:14 Leeds to St Pancras which runs non stop from Chesterfield, and 16:55 St. Pancras to Leeds return.
• The Midlands Express on the 07:05 Sheffield to St. Pancras.

Performance Categorised as a long distance operator Midland Mainline compares favourably to other operators in its category, with the highest Public Performance Measure: 91.5% for the last quarter of 2006http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/320.pdf, published by the Office of Rail Regulation. This is not a surprise, given that Midland Mainline was also awarded Passenger Operator of the Year 2006http://www.midlandmainline.com/mainpage.aspx?id=229.

Rolling Stock Midland Mainline has the following fleet. Current fleet {| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9! rowspan="2" |Class! rowspan="2" |Image! rowspan="2" |Type! colspan="2" |Top speed! rowspan="2" |Quantity! rowspan="2" |Unit numbers! rowspan="2" |Routes operated! rowspan="2" |Built|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9! mph ! km/h |-|British Rail Class 43 (HST)||Diesel Locomotive|1976 - 1982|-|[British Rail Class 222||diesel-electric multiple unit|2003|-|[British Rail Mark 3||Passenger [Rolling stock|1975 - 1988|}

Midland Mainline have the following named units / locos.

{| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9!colspan="2"|HST names|-|43049|Neville Hill|-|43069|Rio Enterprise|-|43072|Derby Etches Park|}

{| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9!colspan="2"|Meridian names|-|222004|[City of Sheffield|-|222006|[City of Leicester|}

Midland Mainline re-configured the Meridian units at the end of 2006 / start of 2007, reducing the nine-car sets to eight-car sets and increasing seven of the four-car sets to five-car sets to better provide for seating demand.

Past fleet {| class="wikitable"|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9| Class | Image | Type | Built | Withdrawn | Notes |-|British Rail Class 170||Diesel multiple unit company, [Central Trains in 2004 as British Rail Class 222 were brought into traffic. They are still in use today with midland mainline livery but with Central Trains branding.|}

Stations Served

• Midland Mainline operate at twenty seven stations, of which it manages eight:

St Pancras railway station, Wellingborough railway station, Kettering railway station, Market Harborough railway station, Leicester railway station, Derby Midland railway station, Chesterfield railway station and Sheffield railway station.

• Other stations served include:

Luton Airport Parkway railway station, Luton railway station, Bedford railway station, Loughborough railway station, Long Eaton railway station, Willington railway station, Burton upon Trent railway station, Beeston railway station, Nottingham railway station, Langley Mill railway station, Alfreton railway station, Dronfield railway station, Meadowhall Interchange, Barnsley railway station, Doncaster railway station, Wakefield Westgate railway station, Railway stations in Leeds,York railway station, Scarborough railway station.

Stations No Longer Served

• Stations which used to be served:

Duffield railway station, Ambergate railway station, Whatstandwell railway station, Cromford railway station, Matlock Bath railway station, Matlock railway station, Stockport railway station, Manchester Piccadilly station.

Future London St. Pancras Midland Mainline is currently the exclusive operator at St Pancras railway station. However, Eurostar will transfer its London - Paris/Brussels services from London Waterloo to St. Pancras in November 2007 once the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is fully operational. Following this, Southeastern (train operating company) will begin operating high speed domestic services on the CTRL from St. Pancras.

New East Midlands Franchise It was announced that the current Midland Mainline franchise will continue to operate until November 2007 as part of a franchise reshuffle in the Midlands. The new East Midlands franchise includes former Central Trains services in the East Midlands.

The Department for Transport announced on 19th September 2006 that four parties had pre-qualified for the new East Midlands franchise. On 31st October 2006 Invitations to Tender were issued to the following bidders:

• Arriva Trains East Midlands Limited (Arriva)
• First East Midlands Limited (First Group)
• NXE Trains Limited (National Express Group)
• Stagecoach Midland Rail Limited (Stagecoach Group)

On the 22 June, the Department for Transport announced that Stagecoach had won the franchise.

As National Express, the company that currently runs Midland Mainline has lost the franchise bid, from the 11 November 2007 all services will be transferred to East Midlands Trains and Midland Mainline will cease to exist. References External links

• Midland Mainline website

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