What was the original route of the Great Central Railway?
Rose Kulas
2025-05-24 03:12:48
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The Great Central Railway was begun in 1894 and opened for passenger traffic in 1899. It ran from Marylebone station in London to Annesley junction to the north of Nottingham. The line passed through Brackley, Rugby and Leicester before reaching Nottingham. Although Rugby was an important railway centre, the line passed through no large urban centres between London and Leicester, so local passenger traffic was never very heavy. The line was driven through the thinly populated area because the other main lines to London had taken the better routes. It was a difficult line to build because it crossed the central watershed of England where the rivers Nene, Great Ouse, Cherwell and Leam have their sources. The construction by Walter Scott and Company involved building many viaducts, tunnels, cuttings and embankments.
Elena Macejkovic
2025-05-11 02:36:42
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Slightly outside our area, but the original route of the G.C.R. was planned to deviate after Quorn & Woodhouse to pass through Swithland village on a bridge close to the Griffin Inn, across country through the site of the Reservoir Inn at Cropston, then through Anstey to Leicester Central. It was never built as Lord Lanesborough at Swithland Hall objected. He also wanted a station built near to Swithland reservoir. This was never built either, although there is still a blocked up doorway in the reservoir bridge that would have formed the station entrance. Work in progress on the site of the proposed Great Central station at the southern tip of Swithland Reservoir, Leicestershire. Although the bridge was eventually completed, there was never a station built on this site.
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