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Proposed Extension of "EMR Electrics" beyond Corby

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InTheEastMids

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I think 5xxx codes are not passenger services.
It looks like it's replaced by a passenger service at the May TT change. This from another thread

1M19 1045 St Pancras International to Melton Mowbray
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G91155/2021-05-20/detailed

1P54 1314 Melton Mowbray to St Pancras International
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C00079/2021-05-20/detailed

In between, the stock forms the 5M19 Melton - Syston - Melton
Looks like there's also a morning Melton-St Pancras and evening return, though they're in RTT as two services each that starting/terminate at Kettering.
 
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Looks like there's also a morning Melton-St Pancras and evening return, though they're in RTT as two services each that starting/terminate at Kettering.
The morning one
1P22 0815 Melton Mowbray to Kettering
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G91157/2021-06-10/detailed
joins to
1B22 0813 Nottingham to St Pancras International
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G91009/2021-06-10/detailed

The evening one
1M51 1938 Kettering to Melton Mowbray
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G91156/2021-06-10/detailed
splits from
1D99 1835 St Pancras International to Nottingham
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G91095/2021-06-10/detailed
 

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Maybe platform capacity means it's just more convenient to terminate at March but using reinstated bay platform, bit like Corby is just a convenient place to terminate the EMR Electrics.
Apart from “just” having grown by 19,000 population in 19 years, especially since the station re-opened, with house building still forging ahead!
 

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They want to do Seaton - Luffenham. See https://wvr.org.uk/how

Thanks for the link. Again, perhaps I'm being naive: but this group's plan as per same, strikes me as hugely ambitious, and envisageably involving a vast amount of work and financial expense -- to the point of one's wondering whether they are in touch with reality. Their "mission statement" mentions, "can't turn right at Manton junction": with the rail layout which there now is, that's true; but instead, they see putting in a new curve, running down from a far greater height, to the valley bottom: to join with the abandoned -- which they see reviving -- route between Seaton and Luffenham -- including totally new-routeing on some of that stretch. Is this really more easily do-able; than putting in a new south-to-east curve close by Manton; or even -- having trains reverse direction at Manton (for accomplishing that, no need to reopen Manton station for passengers): is there such an intensive service between Leicester and Peterborough, that that could not be done re the new workings Kettering -- Peterborough and beyond?

Re the above: I'm likely out of touch with modern railway realities; but the scheme as set out in the linked item, irresistibly suggests to me the saying from the Germans (of all unlikely people): "why do it simply, when it's possible to make it so beautifully complicated?".
 
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