Class 222 

125 mile/h diesel electric multiple units with a 750HP Cummins engine and two body-mounted Alstom Onix traction motors per car

Built by Bombardier Transportation in Bruges and Wakefield

'Meridian' units built 2004-2005

222001 - 222023 - 4/5-car units

Operator - East Midlands Trains

5-car Meridian at Leicester 2007 4-car at Loughborough 2005
5-car Meridian at Market Harborough 2008 5-car Meridian powers up Sharnbrook Bank at Souldrop 2007
In the snow at Bullbridge 2005 Entering Wellingborough 2007
222001 Nottingham 2008 222002 at Wingfield 2006
222004 arriving at Loughborough 2008 222006 St Pancras 2006
222007 'City of Derby' at Nottingham 2007 222008 brand new at Crofton 2004
222011 Nottingham 2008 222016 Derby 2007
220018 leaving Market Harborough 2008 222019 Kettering 2007
220020 leaving Wellingborough 2007 222021 St Pancras 2007
222023 Sheffield 2006 Cossington 2008
Wingfield 2005 Leicester 2008
York 2007 Near  Wakefield Kirkgate 2007

222001 - 222023 - 4/5 car plus 7 car units

Operator - East Midlands Trains

222001 St Pancras 2011 222002 Cossington 2009
222003 Duffield 2009 222004 Luton Airport 2011
222006 Wingfield Tunnel 2009 222007 St Pancras 2011
222008 Cossington 2009 222009 Attenborough Station 2014
222010 approaching Luton Airport 2011 220011 arriving at Market Harborough 2008
222013 Cossington 2009 222014 Derby 2008
222015 Derby 2008 222016 York 2009
222017 Derby 2008 222018 Cossington 2012
222019 Luton Airport 2011 222020 Spondon 2010
222021 Beeston 2015 222023 Luton Airport 2011
Northbound in Amber Valley 2009

Operator - East Midlands Railway

222004 Nottingham 2020 222009 near Beeston 2020
222009 at the rear of a Nottingham to Derby Etches Park ECS move on 29th July 2020 222010 near Beeston 2020
222011 Meadow Lane foot crossing, Attenborough 2020 222012 near Attenborough Junction 2020
222013 with a Nottingham to Derby Etches Park ECS move on 29th July 2020 222014 with the 09.34 - St Pancras to Nottingham service on 29th July 2020
222014 near Beeston 2020 222015 near Beeston 2020
222018 Meadow Lane foot crossing, Attenborough 2020 222019 near Attenborough Junction 2020
222022 Meadow Lane foot crossing, Attenborough 2020 222023 near Attenborough Junction 2020
attenborough foot crossing 222011 passing Meadow Lane Foot Crossing with a London service on 23rd March 2021 beeston 222011 calls at Beeston with a London to Nottingham service on 23rd March 2021
220019 passes Barton Lane LC on 15th March 2021 222013 heads through Attenborough station on its way to St Pancras on 15th March 2021
Beeston 222004 departs Beeston on 28th April 2021 222020 departs Nottingham on 12th May 2021
222010 approaching Beeston on 12th May 2021    

'Pioneer ' 4-car units built 2005

222101 - 222104

Operator - Hull Trains

222102 Arriving at Doncaster 2008 Church Lane Crossing 2007
222101 at Grantham 2008 222102 at KX 2007
222103 at Hull 2006 222104 at Hull 2006

Operator - East Midlands Trains

222101 Meadow Lane foot crossing, Attenborough 2019 222103 Derby 2011
222103 Luton Airport Parkway 2011 222104 approaching Luton Airport Parkway 2011
222104 at Cossington 2012

Operator - East Midlands Railway

222101 Meadow Lane foot crossing, Attenborough 2019 222104 in the EMR new livery St Pancras 2019

 

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