Could the Great Central Railway be reopened?
Susan Macejkovic
2025-06-05 09:23:56
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The Great Central Railway was built 125 years ago so it’s absolutely vital we continue to keep everything in good condition. One of the bridges is an essential part of the railway’s Reunification scheme, which is the project to link the two separate halves of the Great Central Railway together again. Investing in the line means it can be a vital asset to the East Midlands for years to come. Our staff and volunteers have worked really hard to complete these works on time and meanwhile keep trains running on the branch line. During the last 12 months, four bridges have been replaced on the Great Central Railway, which is a major undertaking for the visitor attraction.
Angeline Hirthe
2025-05-30 09:58:24
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The change follows the million pound investment in the line to replace the A60 bridge, renewing the momentum to restart trains and connect with the eight mile Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. Dr David Rae, Chairman of East Midlands Railway Trust, explains: The Boards of both companies have been working towards this agreement for the past year and we are very relieved to have the support needed from shareholders to conclude it. It means that GCR(N) Ltd can now work with the backing of EMRT to reopen the railway whilst the Trust safeguards the railway line, track and infrastructure. The boards of EMRT and GCR(N) are said to be united in this aim. Their initial focus will be running passenger trains again between their base at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre some two and a half miles to Rushcliffe Halt station. George Green, director of GCR(N) who chaired this month’s AGM, says: By working together we can get trains running and secure a long term future for the line, which requires significant investment.
Alicia Bradtke
2025-05-21 06:06:21
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Far from being an impossible dream, work has started, and at www.gcrailway.co.uk/unify we'll always keep you to date. We need to rebuild bridges and embankments and relay track. It's going to cost millions of pounds. With your help we have already raised and spent millions and completed two parts of the project, including an impressive new bridge over the four tracks of Midland Main Line at Loughborough. When its complete the new railway will be a thrilling heritage attraction with the power to bring in visitors from around the world. With a link to the national network of Britain it will be able to welcome charter trains of tourists to the area and be a home for the locomotives pulling those trains. Your donations make all the difference. We can only keep building as we have the funds available. Whatever you give it brings us closer to the day the first train runs.
Tyrese Kassulke
2025-05-10 13:52:37
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I congratulate all the people, most of them volunteers, who’ve worked so hard to restore parts of the Great Central Railway and now hope to reconnect the two reopened bits of the line. Had it been left in service, an upgrade would have cost a fraction of the money poured into Boris Johnson’s vanity HS2 project. The closure came about because of the Beeching report, published in 1963. Dr Beeching had been employed to produce it by the then transport minister Ernest Marples. Sadly, the incoming Labour government allowed much of the report to be implemented, possibly because it had many other things to deal with after what Harold Wilson called “13 years of Tory misrule” and a rightwing press, with an apparently short-term memory, eager to blame our country’s many woes on newly elected lefties.
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