Another service that got chopped in Central Trains days, but like all of them by the SRA and not them, was Lincoln to Coventry. It got cut back to Nottingham when the West Coast work meant that they could not cross on the flat at Nuneaton, and it's MML path was taken by a Leicester to Nottingham service replacing the London-Nottingham slow that's path south of Leicester was taken by the Manchester service. When the Manchester service ended, so did the Leicester-Nottingham service. Another loss was the Nottingham to Birmingham via Leicester, which like some other services was split at Leicester as part of the breakup of Central, leaving Cross Country with an all stops Leicester to Birmingham service. When Leicestershire County Council cut funding for the Ivanhoe service from Leicester to Loughborough, the Nottingham to Birmingham service was also withdrawn and the Lincoln to Nottingham service was extended to Leicester.
This and many other posts have reminded me of all the places you used to be able to get a train direct to from Loughborough in the past that you now can't. Birmingam, Coventry, Stansted Airport, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich (more than twice a day in the early morning), etc. The only gain really is that there are now hourly direct trains to Sheffield, when before Turbostars Sheffield service were infrequent and afterwards they became even more infrequent.