180113 slows for its stop at Kettering station working EMR’s 1B31 09.50 Nottingham to St. Pancras train. After this stop this service will run fast all the way to London reinforcing further the poor service now afforded to passengers from Wellingborough, Bedford and Luton who have to put up with a slow-stopper service pattern travelling aboard a Class 360 Desiro. The Class 180s have been a relatively short-lived class on the MML coming into service following the withdrawal of the HSTs back in 2021 however, time is nearly up now with them about to be returned to their leasing company at the end of May with them facing a very uncertain future.
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