East Midland Trains

East Midlands Trains (EMT) is a train operating company. Apart from the East Midlands, they also serve the cities along the Midland Main Line and also the South and West Yorkshire. --- the BASICS --- East Midlands Trains is a new train operating company, estalished in November 2007. They took over from the old Midland Mainline (MML) and also some routes of the old Central Trains. Their colours are yellow, red, white and blue - in accordance with its parent company (Stagecoach plc). The same livery can also be found on SouthWest Trains. --- its ROUTES ---- [old MML routes] London - Corby (extension to Melton ...  Read the complete review

This is my chance to get something of my chest, I travel on the laughably poor 7.35 East Midlands train from Sheffield to Manchester and catch the returning one at 4.42. Thats the bald facts for this shocking train service, now Sheffield and Manchester are if facts don't lie two of the biggest cities in England and many people might want to travel between the two of them? Yet the service offered by East Midlands on this train is little more than a sick and steadily less funny joke. So whats my gripe? Well this is intrinsically the train from Norwich to Liverpool so travels through the East part of England before hitting Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and ...  Read the complete review

Used East Midlands Trains last week to travel from East Midlands Parkway station to St. Pancras. We had booked online with the maximum notice we could which is three months through the trainline.com via topcashback for a start, that coupled with using our family railcard meant that the journey (as a return) for the 3 of us was £85, as we were away for 3 days the cost of the congetion charge and parking fees and fuel meant the car would have cost more. Booking with this much notice meant for some reason we could not reserve seats but the website did advise that we could call nearer the time to book seats. This I did but only received the seat reservation ...  Read the complete review

Britain has two (relatively) high speed mainline railways that run from London up the east and west coasts of the country. In between these two is the under-appreciated, under-resourced and frequently overlooked Midland Main Line (not to be confused with the former train operator of the same name), the railway that connects the cities of Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Bedford and Luton with London St. Pancras. Over this line the principal passenger train operator is the Stagecoach-owned East Midlands Trains (EMT), who were awarded the franchise to run trains from 2007 to 2015. They replaced the company Midland Mainline, who had been the incumbent operator since ...  Read the complete review

I regularly use East midlands trains. In the bad and terrible black days when Midland Mainline had lost their way we suffered from cold trains with no hot water, no tea, no coffee and delays. The good news is some of those miserable journeys can be experienced again on East Midlands Trains. The joy of a journey before Xmas with a 3 year, no food available-we were on the train for 3 hours. The return had no warm drink-they forgot to take on water at Derby on the way down! it was December. Recently, January 09 twice the train service has gone one step further. Beware the "Short Formation". One train with fewer ...  Read the complete review