EMR announces reinstatement of regional services

East Midlands Railway has announced the reinstatement of several regional services to help support customers across the region.

The timetable increase will be delivered in two stages, with the majority of services being reinstated from Monday 13 December.

A second and slightly smaller increase will then be delivered from Monday 3 January, as customers return to work and education.

As a result, EMR will be operating 486 trains per day, 87 more than operated in the timetable that was in place in its final pre-Covid timetable.

Paul Barnfield, operations director at East Midlands Railway, said: “In recent months, a dedicated team has been working hard to improve the reliability and performance of our services to allow us to reinstate a number of our regional services.

“In doing so, we have aimed to prioritise services which have been the most requested by our customers and local stakeholders while also being careful to ensure our timetable is robust, reliable and as cost efficient to taxpayers as possible.”

Full details of EMR’s updated timetable can be found here.