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The Midland Main Line (MML), sometimes also spelt Midland Mainline, is a major railway line from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester , Derby / Nottingham and Chesterfield .
The Midland Main Line (MML), a major railway line in the United Kingdom, has been undergoing various upgrades since 2015. [1] The current programme of upgrades began in 2012, although electrification was proposed a number of times previously. [2]
Midland Mainline [1] was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the Midland Main Line franchise between April 1996 and November 2007. It was owned by the British transport company National Express. Midland Mainline took over operations of the franchise from the state-owned operator InterCity in April 1996.
With the onset of the First World War in 1914, unified Government control of the Midland, and all the main line railways, was imposed through the medium of the Railway Executive Committee. The Midland retained its private sector independence, being given income to match 1913 levels, but was required to undertake huge volumes of military traffic ...
The line from London to the Channel Tunnel is the only line designated 'high speed', although the other main routes also operate limited-stop express services. The bulk of the secondary network is concentrated in London and the surrounding East and South East regions; an area marketed by National Rail as London and the South East .
The railway route includes the Birmingham–Peterborough line for a large part. [3] [4] [5] The line links the Port of Felixstowe in Felixstowe, Suffolk, with the Midlands and crosses the East Coast Main Line, the Midland Main Line and the West Coast Main Line and thus the north and Scotland.
Syston railway station (/ ˈ s aɪ s t ən / ⓘ SY-stən) is a railway station serving the town of Syston in Leicestershire, England. The station is on the Midland Main Line from Leicester to Loughborough, 103 miles 63 chains (167.0 km) down the line from London St Pancras.
The Erewash Valley Line is a railway line in England, running from Long Eaton, between Nottingham and Derby, and Clay Cross, near Chesterfield.The southern part was opened by the Midland Railway in 1847 as far as Codnor Park, where it connected to established ironworks, and soon after, a line to Pinxton and Mansfield.