Midland Main Line

I will be suggesting the section between London and Corby. This section will run for about 80 mi (128 km).


Rolling Stock
East Midland Railway

Class 222


Class 180


Class 360

Thameslink

Class 700

 

Good suggestion but I would knock it back a few years to when the HSTs were still roaming around...
Or even better knock it much further back to the late 70s/early 80s when you had both HSTs and Peaks on the expresses and I wouldn't even need to think about whether I should buy it or not.

 

I think keeping it on modern time would be good

 

I just though with two modern routes coming up and not having a 70s/80s route for a long while it would be nice to have a change.

 

Maybe your right we need an older route coming out of London for a change

 

I'd love to see Leicester-Sheffield on the Midland Mainline with the line to Nottingham connected as well

 

I'd love this in 2000 to 2004

 

Did 222's ever run on the Corby branch for other than diversions on the main line..?

 

The expresses here (and that's everything in purple) would essentially skip the Southern half of the route where the Thameslink diagrams run all stoppers.
So the 222s would essentially have at most two stops, and even the regionals (class 360s) stopping at most at Luton and Airport, Beford, Wellingborough, Kettering and Corby
This would mainly be a Thameslink route, with EMR additions rather than the other way round

 

Yeah there was an hourly Corby-St Pancras service that was operated with 222s for several years. I think even HSTs ran up the branch once or twice in service.

 

Great Suggestion!