STEVIEBOY1
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Good morning,
I traveled on Saturday on the Hastings Diesels Charter Railtour to the Great Central Railway (North), it goes from Loughborough to Ruddington where there is a country park and the Notts Transport Museum, (which is interesting in itself, with old buses on display, a couple of narrow gauge rail train rides and an open top bus trip too).
Anyway, I have some queries about the GCR & GCR(N);
Does anyone know how the plans/project to link these two lines over the MML are progressing? I picked up a leaflet there that said the bridge was hoped to be put in position by the end of this year. Is that still likely to happen.
Was the original Ruddington station located approximately where the reversal junction now takes place to access the present station at the Heritage Centre.?
Do existing GCR (N) steam/diesel loco hauled services have to operate top and tail at the moment, as there is no run around loop in the Loughborough area that I could see and I was not sure if there is a run round loop at the Ruddington reversal bit although there is I think at Ruddington Station.
I presume the line used to carry on forward from there to Notts City and beyond. Are the Notts trams likely to be extended towards Ruddington, I heard they are planning to extend their network?
What was at the current heritage site originally, it does cover quite a large ares, was it a marshaling yard or similar?
When the grouping happened in 1923 that made the "Big Four" companies, and then nationalisation in the late 1940s, who took over the Great Central Railway's services from Marylebone to the Midlands and Yorkshire/Manchester. Did it become part of the GWR, LMS or LNER? then become part of the WR, MR or Eastern Regions?
It was a really good day out on Saturday, apart from some slow running on the way back approaching Clapham Junction owing to a trespasser on the line around Queenstown Road that caused delays.
Thank you.
I traveled on Saturday on the Hastings Diesels Charter Railtour to the Great Central Railway (North), it goes from Loughborough to Ruddington where there is a country park and the Notts Transport Museum, (which is interesting in itself, with old buses on display, a couple of narrow gauge rail train rides and an open top bus trip too).
Anyway, I have some queries about the GCR & GCR(N);
Does anyone know how the plans/project to link these two lines over the MML are progressing? I picked up a leaflet there that said the bridge was hoped to be put in position by the end of this year. Is that still likely to happen.
Was the original Ruddington station located approximately where the reversal junction now takes place to access the present station at the Heritage Centre.?
Do existing GCR (N) steam/diesel loco hauled services have to operate top and tail at the moment, as there is no run around loop in the Loughborough area that I could see and I was not sure if there is a run round loop at the Ruddington reversal bit although there is I think at Ruddington Station.
I presume the line used to carry on forward from there to Notts City and beyond. Are the Notts trams likely to be extended towards Ruddington, I heard they are planning to extend their network?
What was at the current heritage site originally, it does cover quite a large ares, was it a marshaling yard or similar?
When the grouping happened in 1923 that made the "Big Four" companies, and then nationalisation in the late 1940s, who took over the Great Central Railway's services from Marylebone to the Midlands and Yorkshire/Manchester. Did it become part of the GWR, LMS or LNER? then become part of the WR, MR or Eastern Regions?
It was a really good day out on Saturday, apart from some slow running on the way back approaching Clapham Junction owing to a trespasser on the line around Queenstown Road that caused delays.
Thank you.
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