Long-distance services are provided by CrossCountry to destinations as diverse as and in the South-West of England ; Manchester Piccadilly and in the North ; and Edinburgh and in Scotland.

The following table lists the rolling stock which forms the core passenger service pattern on the WCML serving its principal termini ; it is not exhaustive since many other types use sections of the WCML network as part of other routes-notable examples include the InterCity 125 HST on certain CrossCountry services ( primarily through the West Midlands area ) and the East Coast InterCity 225 between Edinburgh and Glasgow Central.

On 9 December 2007 as part of a reshuffle of rail franchises by the Department for Transport, services from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central via Crewe were transferred from the CrossCountry franchise to the InterCity West Coast franchise.

Services to other parts of the country are provided by CrossCountry via Birmingham New Street, to Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton,,, Stansted, as well as direct services to other cities across England and Scotland.

All CrossCountry services are operated by Class 220 Voyager and Class 221 Super Voyager units.

All of services are provided by CrossCountry, with trains between Cardiff Central, Birmingham, and Nottingham, as well as longer-distance services to destinations such as Bristol Temple Meads, Leeds and Newcastle.

Macclesfield railway station has frequent services to Manchester Piccadilly ( 25 minutes away ), Stoke and London Euston ( 1 hour 47 minutes ) by Virgin Trains, and to Birmingham New Street and beyond provided by CrossCountry.

CrossCountry, aspiring to improve their overall network and services, aims to increase services between Sheffield and Leeds.

The station is managed by East Midlands Trains although most services are operated by CrossCountry.

CrossCountry run a small number of services ( departing in the morning, arriving in the evening ) to Glasgow Central via Bristol, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, also to Dundee via Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, York, Newcastle Central and Edinburgh Waverley.

Other services are provided by CrossCountry to destinations such as Birmingham, Cambridge and Stansted Airport.

Regional services from Birmingham to Cambridge and Stansted Airport via Peterborough are provided by CrossCountry.

* Platform 5-Virgin Trains Northbound services to Manchester Piccadilly and Southbound to Birmingham New Street and London Euston, London Midland services to Birmingham New Street, Arriva Trains Wales services to Cardiff, CrossCountry services to Bournemouth and Bristol Temple Meads.

Some Virgin Trains Northbound services Preston and Glasgow Central and Southbound to London Euston also use this platform along with a CrossCountry service to Manchester Piccadilly.

Some through services to and from London Paddington station and those operated by CrossCountry between Penzance and Scotland also stop.

CrossCountry express services also run to Manchester via Birmingham.

* CrossCountry: cross-country services north of Sheffield are routed via either Leeds or Doncaster.

First Great Western runs intercity services to Bristol and London, and regional services to Bath, Taunton, Southampton and Portsmouth, whilst CrossCountry operates trains to Gloucester, Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester.

Bradford Interchange connects to Leeds railway station for East Coast and CrossCountry train services, and provides First Bradford and Keighley & District buses to the ground.

Since December 2005 a number of long distance services operated by CrossCountry Trains have stopped at Morpeth.

Until December 2008 a small number of CrossCountry services also stopped here.

A CrossCountry British Rail Class 170 | Class 170 numbered 170113 with a service from London Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street railway station | Birmingham New Street First Capital Connect British Rail Class 365 | Class 365 ' networker ' numbered 365538 at Cambridge railway station | Cambridge Rail Station

From May 2003 until September 2004 Midland Mainline operated an hourly service between St Pancras and Manchester Piccadilly at the request of the Strategic Rail Authority whilst the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Manchester underwent engineering work using former Virgin CrossCountry High Speed Trains.

A CrossCountry train at Piccadilly.

File: Burton-on-Trent railway station MMB 06 220020. jpg | An intercity CrossCountry train at Burton upon Trent railway station

Junctions at Leicester and Derby stations link with CrossCountry trains route, serving the far north east of Scotland and the south west of England.

The tram has rail connections with East Midlands Trains, CrossCountry and Northern Rail at Station Street ( for Nottingham railway station ), and at Bulwell and Hucknall for the Robin Hood Line.

A CrossCountry British Rail Class 220 | Class 220 Voyager at the company's Birmingham New Street hub, at which all CrossCountry trains call A large number of railway lines meet at Birmingham New Street railway station, which is a hub of the UK rail network and where all intercity trains in Birmingham city centre go.

Chiltern Railways took most trains over when it increased its London service, Currently CrossCountry services to Bournemoth, Reading, Southampton Central, and Guildford also call at Leamington.

Some CrossCountry trains services to Birmingham New Street and Cardiff Central call at the platform also.

Platform 5 is commonly used for trains to Liverpool Lime Street, calling at Alfreton, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Stockport, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Warrington Central, Widnes and Liverpool South Parkway and by CrossCountry trains to Birmingham New Street.

* Two CrossCountry trains per hour, most calling at Basingstoke, Winchester, Southampton Airport Parkway, Southampton Central, Brockenhurst and Bournemouth:

The sets operated by CrossCountry have now had their tilting equipment disabled, taking advantage of the fact that these trains ' tilting equipment can be disabled or enabled at any time.

Unlike the Class 220s, the Class 221s were built with a hydraulic-actuated tilting system to run at high speed around bends, though this has now been disabled on the 23 sets operated by CrossCountry.

CrossCountry services generally do not stop at Didcot, and avoid the station by using the Didcot East curve to and from the Oxford line.

* CrossCountry operates an hourly Cardiff Central-Nottingham service with 1 Nottingham-bound and 2 Cardiff-bound trains in the early morning plus 1 in each direction in the late evening stopping at Lydney, Chepstow, Caldicot and Severn Tunnel Junction.

* 1tph to Cardiff Central, calling at Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester, Newport and Cardiff Central, operated by CrossCountry.

Platform 5 is on the left, while a CrossCountry train to Plymouth is at Platform 2.

* Central Trains split between London Midland, East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry

CrossCountry Trains | CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains.

National train operators, such as Virgin Trains, East Coast, CrossCountry and TransPennine Express, pass through the main station, but not all stop there.

Train operators using the station include CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains.

Along with Kensington Olympia, East Croydon was until 13 December 2008 one of two stations in the London area to be served by CrossCountry.

Today, Britain's railways having been privatised, InterCity trains in the UK are operated by many different train companies including Greater Anglia, CrossCountry, First Great Western, Virgin Trains, East Coast, East Midlands Trains, First Hull Trains and Grand Central.

* East Midlands Trains-Stagecoach won a new franchise in the East Midlands on 11 November 2007, naming it East Midlands Trains, due to a reshuffle which affected three new franchises including CrossCountry, now operated by Arriva, and West Midlands, now operated by Govia as London Midland.

Most southbound East Coast or CrossCountry services and some Westbound First Trans-Pennine Express services use this.

Most northbound East Coast or CrossCountry services, some North / Eastbound First Trans-Pennine Express services use this and Summer Saturday only East Midlands Trains services to Scarborough.

Train services in the area are mainly operated by Northern Rail with additional services from First TransPennine Express, Virgin Trains, Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains.

Long distance services using this line as part of longer journeys are run by East Coast, East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry.

It is served by East Midlands Trains, CrossCountry and Northern Rail ; prior to 11 November 2007, it was served by Midland Mainline and Central Trains.

The station is managed by East Coast, whose services run south from platform 1 to Doncaster, Newark Northgate, Grantham, Retford, Peterborough, Stevenage and London Kings Cross and north from platform 2 to Outwood, Leeds and further north to York, Newcastle and Scotland operated by CrossCountry.

The station is also served by CrossCountry, Northern Rail and East Midlands Trains.