Trains from London to Leicester

After a busy day of eating, drinking and seeing the sites in London, we arrive back at St Pancras station to take the train back up to Leicester.

We’re here about 30 minutes before our train is due to leave, and the station has quite a buzzy atmosphere as people are heading on nights out. As we entered the station from the main Underground entrance, we wander in and out of the many shops along the lower level, to background music of someone playing one of the pianos that are spotted around the station. We grab some chips from Prime Burger to take on the train back and head up the escalators (only the set furthest away from the platform go up FYI) towards the platform that East Midlands Railway trains depart from.

The train is already on the platform so we board straight away, unlike earlier, we don’t have a table seat this time, but there are individual fold-down tables we can use instead. My seat is facing backwards, so as the train departs and pulls out of St Pancras I get an amazing view of all the nearby buildings (including the BT Tower) lit up in the night. The journey takes slightly longer from London to Leicester, around an hour and a half instead of the hour it took on the way down, as it stops at several stations along the way like Luton Airport Parkway, Wellingborough, and Kettering.

Once the train arrives into Leicester station, we hop off and head up the stairs to the exit and taxi rank. All in all, it was a comfortable relaxing journey after a great day out in London.

About Jorja

Jorja, a Trainline employee, chose to share her experience of the journey between London and Leicester.