Nottingham’s railway is undergoing its biggest transformation in a generation. a prime improvement scheme is currently ongoing to redevelop Nottingham station right into a world-class transport hub, and Network Rail will shortly begin work on a £100 million project to rebuild the rail infrastructure across the city. This scheme can help to future-proof Nottingham’s railway for the increasing collection of passengers and deliver improved reliability.
As as a result of the most important work being performed by Network Rail in the course of the summer, there’ll be significant changes to East Midlands Trains services on routes to and from Nottingham between Saturday 20 July and Sunday 25 August.
From 11 April, timetables for the complete affected routes could be available to download at eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/nottingham, at the side of advice and knowledge for passengers travelling to and from Nottingham over the summer.
David Horne, Managing Director for East Midlands Trains, said: “This is an important scheme for Nottingham and person who will create a far better, more reliable railway for passengers.
“The variety of passengers travelling on our services throughout the summer months is usually quieter than other times of the year. However we recognise that many passengers do use our services to travel between Nottingham and Skegness over the summer holidays, and we now have worked hard to keep the absolute best service for our passengers in this route and to maintain them at the move within the summer.
“Train services will continue to run between Grantham and Skegness and Newark Castle to Lincoln always. As well, on 23 out of the 37 days of Network Rail’s re-signalling work, we can run direct train services from Nottingham to Skegness.
“The publication of the timetable today marks a major breakthrough within the project and will provide passengers with all of the information they have to plan their travel well prior to the summer.
“Our advice for passengers is to be prepared and sign up advance of travel at eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/nottingham.”
Justin Page, Acting Route Managing Director for Network Rail, said: “We’re spending £100m to fully rebuild the railway through Nottingham.
“It is the most important development at the network on this area for a generation and may transform the reliability of services and the versatility of the station.
“We’re using modern equipment to interchange 1960s-style signalling, setting up a brand new platform and relaying six miles of track, to make a genuine difference to the manner trains run within the city.
“There will inevitably be some short term disruption during an investment of this scale and that i sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause, but this about investing for future generations inside the heart of the East Midlands.”
Summary of services to/from Nottingham to Skegness and Lincoln from Saturday 20 July to Sunday 25 August:
· Nottingham to Lincoln
Train services will continue to run from Newark Castle to Lincoln inside the re-signalling work.
From Saturday 20 July to Friday 9 August and at the weekend of 24/25 August, connecting bus services will run between Newark Castle and Nottingham, with an hourly bus service from Rolleston, Fiskerton, Bleasby, Thurgaton, Lowdham, Burton Joyce and Carlton to Nottingham.
From 10 August to 23 August, trains would be running between Nottingham and Lincoln (between 0800-2000). Services will follow the standard calling patterns with slightly extended journey times.
There may also be an hourly express bus service between Newark and East Midlands Parkway, connecting to services to Leicester and beyond inside the re-signalling work.
Stations affected: Carlton, Burton Joyce, Lowdham, Thurgaton, Bleasby, Fiskerton, Rolleston
· Nottingham to Skegness
Train services will continue to run between Grantham and Skegness perpetually.
Direct train services can also be running between Nottingham and Skegness at the following days (between 0800-2000):
Weekdays
Monday 22 July to Friday 26 July
Monday 12 August to Friday 23 August
Weekends
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July
Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July
Saturday 10 August and Sunday 11 August
Saturday 17 August and Sunday 18 August
At all other times, an hourly bus service will run between Nottingham and Grantham with an hourly train service connecting at Grantham for services through to Skegness. There’ll even be an hourly express bus service from Grantham to East Midlands Parkway within the day to glue in with services to Leicester/Liverpool and Norwich.