The light is fading fast as night approaches and Cross Country 170522 stands in the rain in platform 1 at Leicester with 1P24, 17:19 Leicester – Birmingham New Street, 22nd February 2015.

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East Midlands Railways 170924 heads up the Lean Valley approaching Brickyard Lane AOCL, Hucknall working 2W13, 12;25 Nottingham – Worksop, 2nd January 2023. 170924 is a recent addition to the East Midlands Railways fleet and is still in its previous operators (Southern) livery. It is also fitted with Dellner couplers thus making it non standard to East Midlands Railways fleet and has been allocated a temporary unit number in the 1709xx range to denote this. Finally the X in the cab window is a standard method used to denote to train crew that the unit can not couple to another unit. Eventually the unit will be refreshed, re-livered and have a standard BSI coupler fitted and will become 170424, but until this happens it is being used on the “captive” Nottingham – Worksop diagrams.

Unit History
170924 was built by Bombardier at Derby in 2001 as 170424. In 2015 it transferred to Southern, fitted with Dellner couplers and was formed as a four car set 171402 with the addition of the centre car from 170423. It has reverted to its original three car formation on transfer to East Midlands Railways.

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East Midlands Railways 170504 stands in East Midlands Parkway working 2L63, 09;43 Leicester – Grimsby, 9th November 2024.

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A grey cold and wet Saturday afternoon at Nottingham station finds East Midlands Railways 170530 waiting for the route to be set into Eastcroft depot after arriving working 2N49, 12.08 Crewe - Nottingham, 15th January 2022.

Unit History
170530 was built at Derby in 1999/2000 as three car unit 170630 and has been reformed to a two car unit on transfer to East Midlands Railways with the centre vehicle going to Cross Country to strengthen one of their Class 170 two car units to three car

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East Midlands Railways 170272 heads for Nottingham Eastcroft depot after being replaced on a Lincoln – Leicester service, 28th January 2023,

A rather lacklustre colour image made passable in my opinion by converting to black and white.

Unit History
170272 is one of a batch of four class 170/2 two car units built by Bombardier at Derby in 2002 for East Anglian duties. After a couple of years operated by Transport for Wales on South Wales duties it is a recent addition to the East Midlands Railways fleet and still carries its Transport for Wales base livery.

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