Great Central Railway (heritage Railway)
The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway.
The GCR is currently Britain's only double track mainline heritage railway, with 5.25 miles (8.45 km) of working double track, period signalling, locomotives and rolling stock and, with the completion of the Mountsorrel Railway Project, will be the only double track heritage line in Britain with an industrial branch line spur. It runs for 8.25 miles (13.28 km) in total from the large market town of Loughborough to a new terminus just north of Leicester.
Four stations are in daily operation, each restored to a period in the railway's commercial history, the 1950s Loughborough Central, World War II and the remainder of the 1940s Quorn & Woodhouse, the Edwardian Era Rothley and the 1960s Leicester North.
Read more about Great Central Railway (heritage Railway): Background History, Preservation, Major Engineering Projects, Stations, Film and Television, Locomotives and Rolling Stock, Supporting Bodies
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