Editing East Midlands (section)

===Railway===
[[File:Newark North Gate railway station MMB 09.jpg|thumb|220px|right|[[Newark North Gate railway station]] ]]
Three of the United Kingdom's mainline railways serve the region: the [[Midland Main Line]], the [[East Coast Main Line]], and the [[West Coast Main Line]] ([[Northampton Loop]]) providing services terminating at [[St Pancras railway station|London St Pancras]], [[London King's Cross railway station|London King's Cross]] and [[Euston railway station|London Euston]] respectively. The three lines provide regular high-speed services to [[London]], at up to {{convert|125|mph|km/h|-2|abbr=on}}, serving {{rws|Wellingborough}}, {{rws|Kettering}}, {{rws|Corby}}, {{rws|Market Harborough}}, {{rws|Leicester}}, {{rws|Loughborough}}, {{rws|Derby}}, {{rws|East Midlands Parkway}}, {{rws|Nottingham}}, {{rws|Chesterfield}}, {{rws|Grantham}}, {{rws|Newark North Gate}} and {{rws|Retford}}. {{rws|Northampton}} and {{rws|Long Buckby}} are served by the [[Northampton Loop]] of the [[West Coast Main Line]]. England's primary south-west to north-east [[Cross Country Route]] runs through Derby and Chesterfield. {{rws|Worksop}}, {{rws|Mansfield|England}}, {{rws|Lincoln}}, {{rws|Matlock}}, {{rws|Melton Mowbray}}, {{rws|Skegness}}, {{rws|Boston}}, {{rws|Spalding}} and {{rws|Oakham}} are served by regional services The [[Chiltern Main Line]] also serves the western fringe of the region, at [[King's Sutton railway station|Kings's Sutton]].

A [[Land speed record for rail vehicles|land speed record for trains]] was broken in the region. Although the record was set in 1938, the current world speed record for [[Steam locomotive|steam trains]] is held by [[LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard|4468 ''Mallard'']], which clocked {{convert|126|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} between [[Grantham railway station|Grantham]] and [[Peterborough railway station|Peterborough]], pulling six coaches on the [[East Coast Main Line]] near [[Little Bytham]] in Lincolnshire, on 3 July 1938. The ''Mallard'' record was unbroken by any British rail train until 6 June 1973, when an [[InterCity 125]] between [[Northallerton railway station|Northallerton]] and [[Thirsk railway station|Thirsk]] reached {{convert|131|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}. ''Mallard'' in 1938 had six carriages and a [[dynamometer car]]. The national electric-train speed record (pre-[[High Speed 1]]) of {{convert|162|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} was set on the same stretch as the Mallard record, on 17 September 1989 by [[British Rail Class 91|Class 91]] 91010.

There were plans to bring a new [[high-speed rail]] line through the East Midlands as part of the [[High Speed 2]] project, of which [[High Speed 2 Phase Two|Phase 2]] would have brought a new line connecting [[Birmingham Curzon Street railway station|Birmingham]] to [[Leeds railway station|Leeds]], with a proposed station in [[Toton]] known as the [[East Midlands Hub railway station|East Midlands Hub]] It would also have served the region via "classic-compatible" tracks serving [[Chesterfield railway station|Chesterfield]] and [[Sheffield railway station|Sheffield]], the latter of which is just outside the region in [[Yorkshire & the Humber]].