Custom laravel migration command "[Illuminate\Database\Migrations\MigrationRepositoryInterface] is not instantiable"

I'm trying to create a custom laravel (5.2) migration command that basically works the same as migrate:status except it just lists the pending migrations instead of all the migrations.

To do this i've very simply copied the migrate:status into another class within my app/console directory and adjusted the code to suit my needs. However whenever I try to run it I get an error:

[Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException] Target [Illuminate\Database\Migrations\MigrationRepositoryInterface] is not instantiable while building [App\Console\Commands\PendingMigrations, Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migrator].

The contents of the class itself and the fire() method doesn't seem to matter as it doesn't get that far, it fails within the __construct() method.

<?php namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migrator;

class PendingMigrations extends Command
{
    /**
     * The console command name.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $name = 'migrate:pending';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Shows a list of pending migrations';

    /**
     * The migrator instance.
     *
     * @var \Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migrator
     */
    protected $migrator;

    /**
     * Create a new migration rollback command instance.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migrator $migrator
     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Console\Migrations\StatusCommand
     */
    public function __construct(Migrator $migrator)
    {
        parent::__construct();

        $this->migrator = $migrator;
    }

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function fire()
    {
    }
}

The reason for it is likely to be something to do with the IoC container and the order with which things are loaded, but I don't know enough about the inner workings of Laravel to figure out any more than that.

It surely must be possible?

I am currently stuck on 5.2, so i'm not sure if this problem exists in more recent versions.

The only thing i've attempted so far is added the migration service provider to the top of the list in config/app.php however it didn't seem to have an affect and it was just a random guess anyway.

providers' => [
    Illuminate\Database\MigrationServiceProvider::class,`
]

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