Introducing the Great Central Railway Reunification

Welcome to a new series on the unification of two heritage railways that were once part of the Great Central Railway. The project has been titled Reunification, Bridging the gap.
We're starting on the established Great Central Heritage Railway at Quorn and Woodhouse station. We'll be jumping on a steam hauled service to the railways flagship Loughborough station.

We'll be having a look around Loughborough station and site and telling you a little about the series of joining together this railway and the GCR Nottingham. There are 500 meters of missing railway that is currently being reinstate to join a total of 18 miles of heritage railway.

Great Central Mainline was built as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway. Opening in 1899, it was designed to be as straight as possible with as little gradient as possible. Speed was the aim and express trains travelled between London Marylebone, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester. It was the last UK mainline to be built before HS1 over a century later. It thrived initially, however with a lack of upkeep, neglect and dwindling usage, it was mothballed during the great railway rationalisation of Dr Beeching in the 1960s - known as the Beeching Axe.

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