East Midlands Railway - Grantham To Nottingham And Poacher Line

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  1. GrandMoffLucaPaguro

    GrandMoffLucaPaguro Active Member

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    The Poacher Line and Nottingham to Grantham line is a 78 Mile or 125km line that operates from Nottingham, Grantham and Skegness stopping at 19 stations along the route and is operated by the East Midlands Railway. Trains on this line are purely DMUs, operating train sets of Class 153 and 156 Super Sprinter, Class 170 Turbostar and Class 158 Express Sprinter.

    Stations stops include:
    Nottingham
    Netherfield
    Radcliffe
    Bingham
    Aslockton
    Elton & Orston
    Bottesford
    Grantham
    Ancaster
    Rauceby
    Sleaford
    Heckington
    Swineshead
    Hubbert's Bridge
    Boston
    Thorpe Culvert
    Wainfleet
    Havenhouse
    Skegness
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    Train Sets:
    Class 153 Super Sprinter
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    Class 156 Super Sprinter
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    Class 158 Express Sprinter
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    Class 170 Turbostar
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    On busy summer days, the Class 43 HST with a set of Mk 3 coaches are also operated between Nottingham and Skegness, though I'm not sure if these are still in service
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  2. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    An excellent suggestion which brings in the pacer and Turbostar family to the game. These units are everywhere in the UK (outside of London) and much needed to reduce dev time on future routes
     
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  3. zakbevington

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    This route is a good suggestion but the HST’s for EMR are sadly retired. Though if you set the route before 2020 then you could be on to something
     
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    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Set it five years ago. All the above would still have been working then with very few changes to the route overall
     
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  5. GrandMoffLucaPaguro

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    As a bonus I present a couple of picture of some EMR-operated Class 43 HST at Skegness platform 4.

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