The Midland Mainline is a major railway line in England that links London, with the Midlands (Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield) with branches to Liverpool, Leeds, Cleethorpes, Lincoln, Norwich and Manchester. Spanning about 160 miles long it is one of the main ways to get into yorkshire via the East Midlands. The mainline is currently undergoing full electrification which has been completed south of leicester. I will be requesting the London St Pancras International to Leicester branch of the line sitting at about 100 miles. The London - Leicester part of the mainline is currently served by East Midlands Railway and Govia Thameslink as far as bedford, and the wires currently run as far as market harborough. The Midland Mainline was built in stages between the 1840s and the 1870s and ran parallel to the Great Central Mainline (Closed by the beeching cuts) with the extension to London being built in 1857 and the Midland Mainline was electrified as far as Bedford station under the Thameslink Programme in the 1980s and is currently undergoing electrification as far as sheffield. The top speed on the route is 200km/h (125mph) TRAINS ON THE LINE Set in the current era, Trains included should be: Class 222 “Meridian” The British Rail Class 222 Meridian is a Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit train capable of 125 mph (200 km/h) running. Twenty-seven sets were built by Bombardier Transportation in Bruges, Belgium. Class 180 The British Rail Class 180 is a class of 14 diesel-electric multiple unit passenger trains manufactured by Alstom at its Washwood Heath factory in 2000/01. Class 700 The Class 700 is a dual voltage electric multiple unit used on uk railways. It was built by Siemens Transportation and was procured by the Department Of Transportation for the Thameslink programme . (DLC) Train 1: Class 360 “Desiro” The British Rail Class 360 Desiro is an electric multiple unit class that was built by Siemens between 2002 and 2005. The Class 360 is currently operated by East Midlands Railway. The trains could be used on the EMR connect which is the Semi-Fast Services between St Pancras and Kettering/Corby DLC 2: The British Rail Class 810 Aurora is a type of bi mode multiple unit being constructed by Hitachi Rail for East Midlands Railway. Based on the Hitachi AT300 design, 33 five-car units are being built to replace Class 180 and Class 222 units on EMR's intercity routes. PAGE 1
STATIONS St Pancras Intl. Kentish Town West Hampstead Thameslink Cricklewood Brent Cross West (Under Construction) Hendon Mill Hill Broadway Elmstree and Borehamwood Radlett At Albans Harpenden Luton Airport Parkway Luton Leagrave Harlington Filtwick Bedford Wellingborough Kettering Market Harborough Leicester ROUTE MAP Depots/Sidings Kettering Depot Cricklewood Sidings Bedford Carriage Sidings
SCENARIOS Derby Diesels Drive a non stop 7 car Class 222 making stops at only leicester on a nice winter morning Sheffield Stopper Drive a Semi-Fast Class 222 making stops at Luton Airport Parkway, Bedford and Kettering 180 to Lincoln Drive the lincoln bound 180 from St Pancras to Leicester calling at Bedford and Leicester Thameslink! Drive a Class 700 slow as far as luton doing the daily airport run from gatwick to luton Midland Electric Drive a Class 360 for corby as far as Kettering
222 at 2:22 Drive the class 222 from london to leicester non stop bound for sheffield on this afternoon non stop service Engineering Works! Due to the recent Midland Mainline electrification programme, drive a non stop lincoln bound train on the relief lines as engineering is taking place on the mainlines out of st pancras 700 at 19:00pm Drive the fast Bedford to brighton train as far as St Pancras Intl. (Low Level)
Also the Class 395 can layer into St Pancras, making the station look more alive, Along with the 700 on BML and SEHS
Mate this would be a great modern route to have and I'm the one who's usually fed up with modern routes but this is not one of them. I think dovetail would happily make this route and they could also add a hst railtour to the line as I have seen a video of a ex east midlands hst pulling a railtour on the line.
class 45 could layer in if we get a class 46 and 56 for a diesel legend that actually changes the route.
infomation leaked online that Skyhook's new british route is Derby to Leicester and Nottingham with the HST and 158. Its to be properly announced tonight at 8pm on YouTube
I wonder if this version of the route from Skyhook will include the Brush works in Loughborough which is just a short distance from the mainline. I think that would be a interesting addition.
Excellent idea and you can merge this with the northern section being Derby to Leicester made by Skyhook games. Assuming your route and the one made by Skyhook games have London St Pancras as the common origin point. For Class 700 it must use AP sounds otherwise end up like TSC 444 DC 395 AC sounds.
