EMR full journey Sheffield to St Pancras International 18/11/2025

Journey back to London from Sheffield onboard 222003 as the 1C59 1400 Sheffield to St Pancras International calling at Chesterfield, Derby, Long Eaton, East Midlands Parkway ✈️, Loughborough, Leicester and St Pancras International, before 222003 would end up transferring to Lumo for the London Euston to Stirling route and being renumbered to 222603. If you are travelling to Long Eaton then you should be in the front 4 coaches. Oyster and contactless are not valid on this service due to it running fast from Leicester to St Pancras International. The last station to accept oyster on the Midland Mainline is Radlett while the last station to accept contactless (not oyster) is Luton Airport Parkway ✈️, although on 14th December 2025 they extended it to Harlington which means that Harlington is now the last station on the MML to accept contactless PAYG (but not oyster). 0:00 - Sheffield 1:47 - Sheffield departure 7:25 - Dore & Totley 9:34 - Dronfield 15:10 - Chesterfield arrival 16:10 - Chesterfield departure 27:15 - Belper 28:40 - Duffield 33:21 - Derby arrival 35:34 - Derby departure 36:34 - Trainbow 170103 working 1V11 1407 Nottingham to Cardiff Central 39:00 - Spondon 44:54 - Long Eaton arrival 45:56 - Long Eaton departure 49:21 - East Midlands Parkway ✈️ arrival 50:19 - East Midlands Parkway ✈️ departure 56:34 - Loughborough arrival 57:41 - Loughborough departure 1:00:52 - Barrow upon Soar 1:02:03 - Sileby 1:03:36 - Syston 1:07:18 - Leicester arrival 1:08:55 - Leicester departure 1:20:40 - Market Harborough 1:27:35 - Kettering 1:31:50 - Wellingborough 1:41:56 - Bedford 1:48:09 - Flitwick 1:50:34 - Harlington 1:53:14 - Leagrave 1:54:42 - Luton 1:55:22 - Luton Airport Parkway ✈️ 1:58:12 - Harpenden 2:03:10 - St Albans City 2:06:22 - Radlett 2:08:04 - Elstree & Borehamwood 2:09:24 - Passing 810010 working 3A28 1551 Kentish Town to Etches Park Sidings (originally 1548 from St Pancras International but 3A27 1300 from Etches Park Sidings ended up terminating at Kentish Town due to "a decision by the train operating company"). Either way, are you looking forward to seeing the 810s enter service? 2:09:54 - Mill Hill Broadway 2:11:24 - Hendon 2:12:00 - Brent Cross West 2:12:54 - Cricklewood 2:14:46 - West Hampstead Thameslink 2:18:56 - Kentish Town 2:22:50 - St Pancras International arrival 2:23:19 - 374023/374024 (4023/4024) waiting to depart as the 9O40/9040 1631 to Paris. No other Eurostar trains were in the international platforms, as the 9I41/9141 from Brussels via Lille was cancelled due to technical issues ‪@rossmarks7856‬ ‪@soaps1983‬ ‪@gavinm.9154‬ ‪@SamStorey-z3u‬ ‪@debellatios‬