Services on the Midlands Mainline are set to get back to near pre-lockdown levels in September after months of reduced timetables.
Pretty much all services between Sheffield, the Midlands and London St Pancras will be back to normal from Monday, September 7.
In all, East Midlands Railway (EMR) is bringing back 97 per cent of its pre-Covid timetable, partly to co-incide with the reopening of more businesses and schools.
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The rail company provides links between the capital and destinations such as Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln.
An updated intercity timetable includes the full reintroduction of services between Corby and London, providing an additional 33 trains per day between the East Midlands and London.
Alongside the increase in services, EMR will also reintroduce a limited at-seat catering service for First Class customers on weekdays.
That includes a breakfast offering until 11am and then an all-day service through to the last train of the day.
The First Class catering will be complementary and has been redesigned to limit contact between customers and our staff.
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There will be some minor changes to one morning and one evening peak service to continue the levels of punctuality over recent months.
Commercial director Chris Wright said: “As schools and businesses reopen across the country we are doing everything we can to provide as much capacity as possible.
“The reintroduction of our full timetable to and from London St Pancras International, includes an additional 33 trains per day.
“It is the result of a lot of hard work behind the scenes and we hope it will help social distancing as well as providing safe and convenient journeys for the cities, towns and communities we serve.
“There are some minor changes to our timetable to allow these extra trains to be introduced so I would urge our customers to check their journey before they set off as well as being mindful of other customers and our staff while they are travelling with us.”
Full details and timetables are available on the EMR website and in stations and the rail company also has a seat finder tool on its website so passengers can check how busy their journey is likely to be.
Customers must continue to wear a face covering, unless they are exempt, or face a £100 fine.
The company introduced an enhanced cleaning regime in March and has sanitisers at its 15 busiest stations.