Midland Mainline - Service Patterns

Service Patterns

The off peak service pattern, upon conclusion of the franchise in November 2007, consisted of four departures per hour from London St Pancras. There were two fast and two semi-fast trains per hour. The hourly pattern from St Pancras was as below:

xx00: semi-fast to Derby, calling at:

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

with a journey time of 1 hour 56 minutes

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

with a journey time of 2 hours 26 minutes

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

with a journey time around 3 hours 14 minutes

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

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

This service was operated by a four or five carriage Class 222 Meridian.

xx25: fast to Sheffield, generally calling just at:

• Leicester
• Derby
• Chesterfield
• Sheffield

with a journey time around 2 hours 21 minutes

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

with a journey time of 3 hours 17 minutes

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

with a journey time of 2 hours 14 minutes from Leicester

This service was generally operated by a Class 43 High Speed Train, although a few diagrams use an eight-carriage Class 222 Meridian

xx30: semi-fast to Nottingham, calling at:

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

with a journey time of 1 hour 56 minutes

This service was operated by a four or five carriage Class 222 Meridian

xx55: fast to Nottingham, generally calling at:

• Leicester
• Loughborough (every hour or two)
• Nottingham

with a journey time of 1 hour 41 minutes

This service was generally operated by an eight-carriage Class 222 Meridian although sometimes a diagram uses a Class 43 High Speed Train.

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

• The services between London, Luton and Bedford supplemented the high frequency Thameslink and later First Capital Connect commuter service.