Arriva Trains Wales and two from Northern Rail. All passed with the East Midlands franchise to East Midlands Railway in August 2019. In January 2020, four were transferred to Transport for Wales. At one point in April 2020, only three EMR Class 153s were in service, following the implementation of an emergency timetable due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with all others being stored out of use as surplus to requirement. Two more returned to services by July 2020, while five others (153302, 153318, 153368, 153372, 153374, and 153382) had their leases terminated. All of the East Midlands Trains Class 153 units were repainted into the company's local lines livery. In July 2010, the first unit 153319 entered Neville Hill TMD for a C6 refresh programme. The work included corrosion repair, internal refresh and a cab refurbishment programme. East Midlands Railway's fleet of Class 153s were used on rural routes: Nottingham to Worksop (one diagram used two units) Nottingham to Matlock via Derby Nottingham to Skegness Leicester to Lincoln Peterborough to Lincoln and Doncaster Newark North Gate to Grimsby Town (to Cleethorpes after 1900 and during summer) Derby to Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent Cleethorpes to Barton-on-Humber The last of the East Midlands Railway Class 153s were withdrawn in December 2021, as they were not compliant with the Persons with Reduced Mobility Technical Specification for Interoperability (PRM-TSI) regulations. Class 156 units replaced them on the Barton-on-Humber route from 13 December. Northern England The Northern Rail franchise started operations in December 2004. It inherited the fleets previously operated by Arriva Trains Northern (ATN) and First North Western (FNW), whose routes the new franchise incorporated. Northern Rail's successor Arriva Rail North at one point operated the largest fleet of Class 153 units. Northern Rail inherited a fleet of eight units from FNW, which were used on local services around Manchester and and on and to and to services. The fleet was repainted in the now obsolete North Western Trains blue and gold livery. Prior to becoming part of Northern Rail, four former FNW units were transferred to the Arriva Trains Wales franchise, since the lines operated by FNW in Wales were transferred to this new company. A larger fleet of 12 units was inherited from ATN. They are used on various local services around , and . One regular job is the to services, which see a unit stabled at Cleethorpes overnight and Sunday. Other