A Tuesday of East Midlands services at Nottingham. Trains include: East Midlands Trains HSTs, Class 156s, 158s and 222s, CrossCountry Class 170s, Northern Rail Class 158s. Filmed on 18th December 2018, Between 13:00 and 15:00.
I didn’t need one no. Fortunately, EMT haven’t yet installed ticket barriers on the Platform 1 street entrance so you can enter through there. BTP are also quite present at this station so expect an officer to ask why your filming.
There isn’t a lot of freight but if there is, most of it comes through the area filmed. All lines have platforms so like you said, in theory freight could use any of them.