East Midlands Parkway railway station
East Midlands Parkway 
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| Location | |
| Place | Ratcliffe-on-Soar |
| Local authority | Borough of Rushcliffe |
| Coordinates | 52°51′45″N 1°15′48″W / 52.8625°N 1.2632°WCoordinates: 52°51′45″N 1°15′48″W / 52.8625°N 1.2632°W |
| Grid reference | SK496296 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | EMD |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.262 million |
| – Interchange |
24,896 |
| 2012/13 |
0.284 million |
| – Interchange |
 24,281 |
| 2013/14 |
0.328 million |
| – Interchange |
22,083 |
| 2014/15 |
0.304 million |
| – Interchange |
24,393 |
| 2015/16 |
0.306 million |
| – Interchange |
25,346 |
| History | |
| 26 January 2009 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at East Midlands Parkway from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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East Midlands Parkway railway station is located north of Ratcliffe-on-Soar on the Midland Main Line in the East Midlands of England. It provides park and ride facilities for rail passengers on the routes from Leicester to Derby and Nottingham. It is also the closest station to East Midlands Airport, some 4 miles (6.4 km) away, which is reached by an hourly minibus service.
The site of the station is in southwest Nottinghamshire, about 500 metres (0.3 mi) from the border with Leicestershire and 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) from that with Derbyshire, between the stations at Loughborough, Long Eaton and Attenborough. When it opened, there was a little-used shuttle bus from the station to the airport, but this ceased not long afterwards. An hourly minibus service was re-introduced in 2015. The main station building and the 850 vehicle car park are to the west of the line, opposite Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station. Road access is via the A453, which provides a link to the nearby (three-minute drive) M1 motorway.
The Midland Main Line is not electrified north of Bedford; therefore, all services are operated by diesel trains. This was set to change by 2019 when a scheme to electrify the remainder of the line had been due to be completed. This, along with increased line speeds, would have meant that the station would have been under 80 minutes from the capital. However the electrification scheme was put 'on hold' in the early summer of 2015.
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