page_title: British Rail Class 153
section_title: East Midlands
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Class 153 / Operations / Post privatisation / East Midlands
caption_attribution_description: English: East Midlands Trains Class 153, 153357, Alsager railway station
context_page_description: The British Rail Class 153 Super Sprinters are single-coach railcars converted from two-coach Class 155 diesel multiple units in the early 1990s. The class was intended for service on rural and branch lines where passenger numbers do not justify longer trains.
context_section_description: East Midlands Trains inherited many examples of Class 153 units, receiving six from Central Trains, three from National Express East Anglia and four former First Great Western units that had been stored at Eastleigh Works. In December 2007, East Midlands Trains received two from Arriva Trains Wales and two from Northern Rail. All passed with the East Midlands franchise to East Midlands Railway in August 2019. In January 2020, four were transferred to Transport for Wales. At one point in April 2020, only 3 EMR Class 153s were in service, following the implementation of an emergency timetable due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, with all others being stored out of use as surplus to requirement, with 5 going off-lease on the 1 July 2020, those being 153302, 318, 368, 372, 374 and 382. As of July 2020, 5 are in service.
  All of the East Midlands Trains Class 153 units were repainted into the local lines livery of the company.
  In July 2010, the first unit 153319 entered Neville Hill TMD for a C6 refresh programme. The work included corrosion repair, internal refresh and a cab refurbishment programme.
  East Midlands Railway's fleet of Class 153s are used on rural routes:
  Nottingham to Worksop (one diagram uses two units)
  Nottingham to Matlock via Derby
  Nottingham to Skegness
  Leicester to Lincoln
  Peterborough to Lincoln and Doncaster
  Newark North Gate to Grimsby Town (to Cleethorpes after 1900 and during summer)
  Derby to Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent
caption: East Midlands Trains 153357 at Alsager in June 2015
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