Late Night Rail Service Returns To Market Harborough
Written by HFM News on 15th December 2025
East Midlands Railway has reinstated a late night weekday train from London to Market Harborough after several years.
The 23.35 service from St Pancras returns with today’s timetable update following campaigning by the Harborough Rail Users group and MP Neil O’Brien, who said the previous last train an hour earlier meant travellers unable to enjoy a night out in the capital.
A new Aurora train at Market Harborough Railway Station. Pic: Simon Whelband
The train will reach Market Harborough at 1.13 am, although approximately once every six weeks it will skip the station for scheduled engineering work.
On those occasions, a replacement bus service will operate from Kettering.
The reinstatement of the late service comes after EMR introduced the first of its new fleet of trains at the start of December:
