Editing Central Trains (section)

=== 1990s New long distance services ===

In the late 1990s, Central Trains began publicising additional long-distance through journeys, by amalgamating previously self-contained services in its timetables. For example, where a train had previously been timetabled to work a Shrewsbury to Birmingham service followed by a Birmingham to Leicester service, the workings were combined and shown as a single direct Shrewsbury – Birmingham – Leicester service in the public timetable. This resulted in some particularly lengthy services such as those from Aberystwyth in Mid Wales to Grimsby on the opposite coast of the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19991932.htm |title=Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 1932 |access-date=17 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203001247/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19991932.htm |archive-date=3 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="NRT">{{cite journal|year=2000|title=National Rail Timetable 28 May to 23 September 2000|journal=Great Britain National Rail Passenger Timetable|publisher=Railtrack plc|location=London|issn=1367-0352}}</ref>

Additionally, direct services from Birmingham to Stansted Airport were introduced during May 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greatorme.org.uk/knottystudy.htm|title = North Staffordshire Railway Passenger Services 1910-1999}}</ref>