The Ivanhoe line was the local passenger service operated on the Midland Main Line between and between 1993, when three intermediate stations were re-opened, and June 2005, when the separate Leicester–Loughborough service was withdrawn. Intermediate stations on the route are now served by East Midlands Railway's hourly service between Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln. History After phase one of the Ivanhoe line was completed in the mid 1990s it was originally planned that phase two would extend the line west to on the current freight-only line via Coalville and . In 2006 the Conservative Party released a brief of its plans for reopening the line. A report published in December 2008 assumed that the total number of passenger journeys would be 150,000 per annum, each paying an average of £3.15 per journey. In June 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies recommended reopening of the line to passenger services with stations at , Bagworth, Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Moira and . ATOC estimated that the capital cost at £49 million, the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) to be 1.3 and the BCR excluding capital costs to be 2.9. Leicestershire County Council again ruled out the proposal, claiming it would cost a £4 million annual subsidy. However, previous reports had suggested the subsidy required would be far less, and that after the initial investment the line would make money. 2008 One station on the Derby–Birmingham main line, Willington, past the western (Burton) end of the route, was constructed in the mid 1990s with Ivanhoe branding and painted in the according blue livery. However, as a result of the failure of the Burton upon Trent–Leicester development to go ahead, it is a curious anomaly, separated from the Ivanhoe line scheme. A similar anomaly lies at the eastern (Leicester) end of the line, along the Leicester-Loughborough main line, where three stations were reopened as a planned first phase of full reopening: Syston Sileby Barrow-upon-Soar Local passenger services on the route are currently operated by diesel multiple units of Classes 153, 156 or 158. Trains use the slow lines from just north of Leicester to Loughborough, previously used almost exclusively for freight, so as well as the rebuilding of the three intermediate stations, work was also required to build a new third platform at Loughborough facing the Down Slow, and also a new crossover and signal south of Loughborough so southbound trains could cross from the Down Slow to