Services
Most passenger services are provided by CrossCountry. Some local trains east of Leicester are operated by East Midlands Trains (EMT). Freight trains use the route between the Birmingham Freightliner Terminal and the Port of Felixstowe and other destinations.
In the past, longer-distance services using a mixture of Sprinter trains used the line, before being split up into smaller routes for various reasons such as performance and franchising. The former routes included:
- Aberystwyth - Cambridge
- Liverpool (Lime Street) - Norwich
- Liverpool - Stansted Airport
- Birmingham (New Street) - Ipswich
The service in 2011 consists of two trains per hour between Birmingham and Leicester, one of the two calling at limited stops to Leicester and continuing to Stansted Airport via Peterborough, Ely and Cambridge. EMT operates a handful of services along the section between Syston and Peterborough (serving Melton Mowbray and Oakham) as part of its London (St Pancras) service via Corby, and local services to Norwich.
Cross Country uses exclusively Class 170 units for its service, while EMT uses either Class 158 or Class 156 trains for its local services and Class 222 for London services.
Read more about this topic: Birmingham To Peterborough Line
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