page_title: British Rail Class 156
section_title: Midlands
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Class 156 / Operations / Post-privatisation / Midlands
caption_attribution_description: 156406 calls at Derby with a Matlock - Nottingham service
context_page_description: The British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter is a diesel multiple unit train. A total of 114 sets were built between 1987 and 1989 for British Rail by Metro-Cammell's Washwood Heath works. They were built to replace elderly first-generation DMUs and locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
context_section_description: In 1997, Central Trains inherited twenty units from Regional Railways for use mainly on medium-distance services such as:
  Birmingham to Nottingham via Derby or Leicester
  Birmingham to Hereford
  Birmingham to Shrewsbury and the Cambrian Line
  Nottingham to Skegness or Lincoln
  In an attempt at fleet standardisation, preparations were made during 2003 to exchange all 20 Class 156s for an equal number of ScotRail Class 158s, with 156402 partially repainted in ScotRail colours in readiness when overhauled at Wabtec, Doncaster. The transfer did not proceed after the Scottish Government refused to sanction the move, and the rest of the fleet were reliveried into Central Trains' livery between 2003 and 2005.
  Nine units were transferred to One during early 2005, in exchange for a similar number of Class 150s.
  At the end of the Central Trains franchise, the remaining eleven units were transferred to East Midlands Trains, who repainted the fleet during 2008 and then carried out a refurbishment program from autumn 2010 onwards. The refurbishment, carried out at Neville Hill depot, included interior refurbishment work, improvements to driving cabs and installation of CCTV. These trains are now used on slower medium-distance services such as Nottingham/Derby to Matlock, Nottingham to Skegness, Leicester to Lincoln and Nottingham to Worksop. In May 2011, four additional units were transferred from Northern Rail to allow Nottingham to Liverpool services to be strengthened.
  Beginning in late 2019, the nine class 156s transferred to Greater Anglia in 2005, passed to East Midlands Railway. Because they had a different public address and passenger information system to EMR's existing Class 156 fleet, they were renumbered as 156/9s.
caption: East Midlands Trains 156406 at Derby in February 2012
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