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InterCity and Midland
A Midland Mainline InterCity 125 | High Speed Train arrives alongside a British Rail Class 170 | Class 170 at St Pancras railway station | St Pancras in 2004
The town has also a growing commuter population as it is located on the Midland Main Line railway, which has InterCity trains to London St Pancras International station taking under an hour, giving an interchange with Eurostar services.
The town, like other towns in the area, has a growing commuter population as it is located on the Midland Main Line railway, which has fast InterCity trains directly into London St Pancras International taking around 1 hour.
East Midlands Trains InterCity services from Sheffield, Nottingham and Leicester run through at high speed on the Midland Main Line, but do not stop.

InterCity and Mainline
In the Republic of Ireland, Iarnrod Éireann introduced the brand name InterCity in 1987, replacing the previous name of Mainline.

InterCity and were
Additional units were sold to Croatia, where they are used for InterCity services.
The 53-strong Pendolino fleet, plus three tilting SuperVoyager diesel sets, were bought for use on these InterCity services.
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.
* ICK: (" InterCity Korte termijn ") These are former German cars that were bought to relieve the shortage of material NSR suffered from.
On long-distance expresses, the Conductor's title is sometimes enhanced to Senior Conductor in line with the implied prestige of operating these trains and historically under British Rail the long distance InterCity trains were normally worked by the most senior guards at the depot, hence the name Senior Conductor.
Twenty-two locomotives were built: they dominated express passenger services on the East Coast Main Line ( ECML ) particularly London – and London – Edinburgh services until 1978 when InterCity 125 ' High Speed Trains ' were introduced.
* InterCity Rail, long-distance rail passenger services were renamed Tranz Scenic
It was initially delivered in the old-style InterCity livery, with no British Rail double arrows, but these were added later when British Rail bought the locomotive from Brush.
The sector responsible for long-distance express trains assumed the brand-name InterCity, although many routes that were previously operated as InterCity services were assigned to other sectors ( e. g., London to King's Lynn services were transferred to the commuter sector Network SouthEast ).
The existing trains operating on the West Coast were intended to be marketed under the brand InterCity 175, again referring to those trains top operating speed of 110 mph roughly equivalent to 175 km / h, although this idea was subsequently dropped.
Special discounted fares, including the Super Advance and the APEX, were available on InterCity if booked ahead.
The logotype was omitted from some older locomotives that were otherwise carrying InterCity livery, although some locomotives that predominantly worked in Scotland were given a ScotRail logotype.
After the privatisation of British Rail, InterCity trains were divided up into several franchises.
Initial plans were for the train operating companies to co-operate to continue providing a consistent InterCity network, but disagreements meant this did not occur.
Upon privatisation in 1994, the three passenger-operating sectors of British Rail ( InterCity, Network SouthEast and Regional Railways ) were subdivided, and their existing operations were let as 23 franchises:
Numbers 9701 – 9710 were converted in 1979 for use on the newly introduced Glasgow-Edinburgh InterCity ScotRail push-pull service with specially modified Class 47 / 7 locomotives.

InterCity and operator
East Midlands Trains is the InterCity operator running services to and from London to northern England, and provides local services throughout the East Midlands.
Third private passenger operator LEO Express is going to introduce express InterCity train service between Prague and Ostrava in December 2012.
The fleet, previously operated by InterCity and then GNER ( Great North Eastern Railway ), and National Express East Coast, it is currently run by the nationalised operator East Coast.
An InterCity class train of railway operator České dráhy bears the name Jan Perner.
The new operator of the InterCity West Coast Franchise, First West Coast, has announced that they will be commencing services direct to London Euston by 2016.

InterCity and 1990s
A ' conventional ' attempt to raise line speeds as part of the InterCity 250 upgrade in the 1990s would have relaxed maximum cant levels on curves and seen some track realignments ; this scheme faltered for lack of funding in the economic climate of the time.
InterCity 250 was the name given by InterCity to the proposed upgrade of the West Coast Main Line in the early 1990s.
During 1990s the Swedish State Railways introduced the new X 2000 units which replaced the InterCity trains in this role.
In the early 1990s, after the Treasury failed to provide funding for the InterCity 250, British Rail examined the option of ordering a further set of ten Class 91s to operate on the West Coast Main Line.
In the early 1990s it became apparent that the current electric locomotives serving the heavy and fast ( speeds over ) InterCity services, the Class 103, were wearing out.

InterCity and .
Some InterCityExpress and most InterCity trains call at Bonn Hauptbahnhof whilst the Siegburg / Bonn railway station is situated on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line outside of Bonn and serviced by InterCityExpress trains.
These trains are used for InterCity services from London to the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
Although they can sometimes be found on InterCity routes in the continental part of the country.
A double-decker InterCity 2 train at Hämeenlinna.
Modern InterCity services complement the Pendolino network, and cheaper and older long and short distance trains operate in areas with fewer passengers.
InterCity services are provided between Dublin and the major towns and cities of the Republic, and in Ulster along the Belfast – Derry railway line.
* November 1 – InterCity 125 breaks world diesel powered train speed record reaching 238 km / h ( 147. 88 mph ).
The traditional central station ( Hauptbahnhof ) has been reduced to the status of a regional station since the opening of the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line in 1991 and its station ( Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe ) on the high-speed line at which the InterCityExpress ( ICE ) and InterCity services call.
Schleswig station is a stop for InterCity and Intercity-Express trains and is on the Hamburg – Neumünster – Flensburg and Husum – Kiel lines.
Every 30 minutes, it is served by a long-distance ( Intercity-Express, InterCity, EuroCity or City Night Line ) service in each direction.
SJ operate the X2000 and InterCity trains over the bridge with connections to Gothenburg and Stockholm.
In many European countries the word " InterCity " or " Inter-City " is an official brand name for a network of regular-interval, relatively long-distance train services that meet certain criteria of speed and comfort.
In Europe, many long-distance inter-city trains are operated under the InterCity ( Intercity, or often simply IC ) brand.
InterCity ( or, initially, " Inter-City " with a hyphen ) was first conceived as a brand name by British Rail for the launch in 1966 of its electrification of the major part of the West Coast Main Line, notably new express services between London and the major cities of Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool.
InterCity had become an iconic brand in the 1970s thanks in part to a British Rail advertising campaign fronted by Jimmy Savile.
The principal network of international express trains in continental Europe is called EuroCity, to distinguish it from the national InterCity networks and to indicate its better support for international journeys even though some IC trains also cross borders.
The German high-speed train service was named InterCityExpress indicating its evolution from older InterCity trains.
Dessau was part of the InterCity long distance network until the year 2002.
Anglia Railways operated InterCity services on the Great Eastern Main Line from London Liverpool Street to Harwich International and Norwich.
The Gatwick Express service commenced in May 1984 with air-conditioned InterCity stock.
Gatwick Express was the first portion of British Rail's InterCity sector to be converted into a separate train operating unit, ready for franchising as a private business with the assets transferred to Gatwick Express Limited ( legal name Gatwick Express Limited, company no 2912338 ) in March 1994.
With the new schedule for 2010, Mönchengladbach got an InterCity / Intercity-Express connection twice a week.
Central to the WCML is its-long core section between and Glasgow Central with principal InterCity stations at Watford Junction, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Nuneaton, Stafford, Crewe, Warrington, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme, Penrith, Carlisle and Motherwell.

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