Editing Central Trains (section)

=== Fleet at start of franchise ===
Rolling stock in 1997 consisted entirely of trains inherited from British Rail. Some, such as Class 310 and Class 312 trains were in the process of withdrawal at privatisation.<ref name="Knight" />
{| class="wikitable"
|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9
! rowspan="2" |Class
! rowspan="2" |Image
! rowspan="2" |Type
! colspan="2" |Top speed
! rowspan="2" |Number
! rowspan="2" |Routes operated
! rowspan="2" |Built
|----- bgcolor=#f9f9f9
!mph
!km/h
|-
|[[British Rail Class 150|150 ''Sprinter'']]
|[[File:150121 at Kidderminster.JPG|100px]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Diesel multiple unit|DMU]]
| rowspan="3" |75
| rowspan="3" |120
|29×&nbsp;2&nbsp;car
9×&nbsp;3&nbsp;car
|Some [[West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive|Centro]] services.
Dorridge/Shirley/Stratford Upon Avon/Leamington Spa – Worcester/Great Malvern/Hereford.
Some non Centro routes
Crewe to Skegness, Derby to Matlock and Nottingham to Worksop
|1984–1987
|-
|[[British Rail Class 153|153 ''Super Sprinter'']]
|[[File:153385 at Nottingham.JPG|100px]]
|21
|Lincolnshire and Mid Wales rural services, Stourbridge branch line, Skegness to Crewe & Derby to Matlock and Nottingham to Birmingham New Street/Shrewsbury via Derby
|1987–1988
|-
|[[British Rail Class 156|156 ''Super Sprinter'']]
|[[File:156408 at Cambridge.jpg|100px]]
|20
|Aberystwyth and Chester to Birmingham New Street, Hereford to Birmingham New Street, Birmingham New Street to Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln Central & Grimsby Town, Nottingham to Worksop, Crewe to Skegness.
|1987–1989
|-
|[[British Rail Class 158|158 ''Express Sprinter'']]
|[[File:158751 at Westbury.JPG|100px]]
|90
|145
|36
|Norwich to Liverpool, Stansted to Birmingham, Nottingham to Cardiff, Grimsby to Birmingham, Birmingham to Liverpool
|1989–1992
|-
|[[British Rail Class 310|310]]
|[[File:310-blue-Harrow&Wealdstone2.jpg|100px]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Electric multiple unit|EMU]]
|75
|121
|10
|rowspan="2"|Already being withdrawn at privatisation, remained as backup for the newly introduced Class 323.
|1966
|-
|[[British Rail Class 312|312]]
|[[File:312-seen-out-train-window.jpg|100px]]
| rowspan="2" |90
| rowspan="2" |145
|4
|1976
|-
|[[British Rail Class 323|323]]
|[[File:Aston railway station - 2007-09-25.jpg|100px]]
|26
|Cross City Line
|1992–1995
|}