East Midlands Railway

East Midlands Railway (EMR) is a train operating company in England owned by Abellio that is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise.

History
In March 2017, the Department for Transport announced Arriva, a joint venture between FirstGroup and Trenitalia, and incumbent Stagecoach had been shortlisted to bid for the next East Midlands franchise. Abellio was added in February 2018.

FirstGroup and Trenitalia pulled out of the bidding process in April 2018 to focus on the West Coast Partnership franchise. In April 2019 the franchise was awarded to Abellio, with East Midlands Railway (EMR) to take over the franchise from East Midlands Trains (EMT) on 18 August 2019 for a period of eight years.

In June 2019, Abellio revealed branding and colour scheme using distinct purple and white colours to reflect the heritage of the East Midlands. It also confirmed it would divide the services into three segments:
 * EMR Intercity for long distance services from London St Pancras
 * EMR Regional for local services
 * EMR Electrics for the London St Pancras to Corby service

Services
EMR operates intercity services from London St Pancras along the Midland Main Line to Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield with limited extensions to Lincoln, Leeds, York and Scarborough. EMR also operate the local East Midlands services and inter regional services to Liverpool and Norwich. Services from Nottingham to Liverpool Lime Street will transfer to another operator during the life of the franchise. The Barton line was expected to transfer from Northern in 2019, but this has been delayed.

Over the course of the franchise, several planned timetable changes are to be made:


 * Earlier and later trains between Sheffield and Nottingham to East Midlands Parkway
 * Earlier and later trains between Sheffield and London St Pancras and more regular evening service to London St Pancras
 * 2 trains per hour between Nottingham and Kettering
 * 2 trains per hour between Corby and London St Pancras
 * Regular Sunday service between Corby and London St Pancras
 * Liverpool to Nottingham transferred to another operator
 * Norwich to Nottingham extended to Derby
 * Regular hourly Sunday service between Norwich and Derby
 * Crewe to Derby service extended to Nottingham and hourly service on Sundays
 * Hourly Sunday service between Matlock and Nottingham
 * Hourly service between Nottingham and Grimsby Town with limited extension to Cleethorpes
 * Hourly Sunday service between Lincoln and Grimsby Town
 * Hourly service between Nottingham and Newark Castle
 * Hourly Sunday service between Worksop and Nottingham and later evening services on weekdays
 * Additional peak services between Nottingham and Grantham
 * Earlier and later trains between Nottingham and Boston
 * Later evening service on weekdays and a new Sunday service
 * Hourly through service between Doncaster and Peterborough via Lincoln
 * New Sunday service between Doncaster and Lincoln
 * Enhanced Sunday service on Barton to Cleethorpes route
 * 2 trains per day between Lincoln and London St Pancras
 * Newark Northgate to Grimsby Town service cut back to Lincoln except to for the limited extension to Cleethorpes and timed to run with LNER's London Kings Cross - Lincoln service

Rolling stock
East Midlands Railway inherited a fleet of InterCity 125, Class 153, Class 156, Class 158, and Class 222s from East Midlands Trains.

Future fleet
Thirty-three five-carriage Class 804 bi-mode trains will be introduced by 2022. . It has now been confirmed that the new Hitachi sets will be designated as Class 800s, not Class 804s.

Existing stock to be added will comprise nine Class 156s and twenty-one Class 360s from Greater Anglia, twenty-eight Class 170s (five from Abellio ScotRail and twenty-three from West Midlands Trains ), twelve Class 171s from Southern (which will be converted back to Class 170s) and four Class 180s from Hull Trains

Nine eight-carriage High Speed Trains will be transferred from LNER in early 2020 to replace nine eight-carriage sets inherited from East Midlands Trains, although these will all be replaced by the end of 2020. The three six-carriage HSTs are to be retained until December 2020, when they will be replaced by Class 180s.

Depots
Train crew depots are located at:


 * London – London route drivers, Train Managers, Customer Hosts and revenue protection officers
 * Leicester – Revenue Protection Officers
 * Derby – London and Local route Drivers, Train Managers, Senior Conductors, Crew Leaders, Chefs, Customer Hosts and Revenue Protection Officers
 * Nottingham – Local route Drivers (although 12 Drivers trained on HST's for Summer Skegness and Charter trains), Train Managers, Senior Conductors, Customer Hosts and Revenue Protection Officers
 * Sheffield – Train Managers, Crew Leaders, Chefs, Customer Hosts and Revenue Protection Officers
 * Boston – Local route Drivers and Senior Conductors
 * Lincoln Central – Local route Drivers and Senior Conductors
 * Norwich – Local route Drivers and Senior Conductors

Trains are maintained at:


 * London, Cricklewood (fueling and cleaning of HST & 222)
 * Derby Etches Park (heavy maintenance of 222, 153, 156 & 158, light maintenance of HST)
 * Nottingham Eastcroft (light maintenance of 153, 156 & 158)
 * Boston (cleaning of 153, 156 & 158)
 * Arriva TrainCare, Crewe (light maintenance of 153, 156 & 158)
 * Leeds, Neville Hill (heavy maintenance of HST)
 * Crown Point (light maintenance of 158)

Shunter drivers are employed by EMR at Derby, Nottingham and Leeds.

On-train catering for standard-class passengers on routes 1 and 2 was, as of September 2010, contracted out to RG (Previously known as Rail Gourmet), which has depots at London St Pancras, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield.

Although all stations are owned by Network Rail, their day-to-day management is handled by train operating companies. EMR manages the following stations: Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby, Market Harborough, Leicester, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Stamford, South Wigston, Narborough, Hinckley, Loughborough, East Midlands Parkway, Long Eaton, Derby, Peartree, Uttoxeter, Kidsgrove, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Beeston, Nottingham, Alfreton, Sleaford, Boston and Skegness. They also have staff at St Pancras International, although the station itself is managed by Network Rail.