Northern, which serves parts of the East Midlands and runs services through Ilkeston Railway Station has detailed that a new rail timetable comes into effect across the region on Sunday 15th December), with a handful of services added and removed and others subject to slight re-timing.
On parts of the network, more electric Class 323 trains will come into operation, providing additional capacity on selected routes, some trains will become six-carriage formation rather than four, whilst others will be slightly rescheduled to help improve performance and provide better connections. Additionally, some late night services will continue to be replaced by bus services during line electrification work, and some Saturday services will no longer operate and some Sunday services will end at a specific location.
For more information about the timetable change, visit: northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timetables/timetable-change
As well as the introduction of the new timetable, Northern has been advising its customers that Network Rail has announced engineering projects will affect its services on various routes across the region.
Matt Rice, chief operating officer at Northern, said: “The twice-yearly timetable change is an opportunity for us to adjust services so they better reflect customer demand. The Christmas period is also an opportunity for Network Rail to carry out engineering work whilst there are fewer people travelling on the network.
“For those travelling between Christmas and New Year we ask that they check their journey as close to the day of travel as possible to see if those engineering works will affect their journey.”
Last month, Northern advised customers to ‘Check Before You Travel’ during December, especially on Sundays, following RMT union members’ rejection of an enhanced four-month pay offer for conductors to work on Sundays.
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