Posted on 4th October 2020. "Seeing the completely refurbished canal bridge has given us all a huge psychological boost" said Andy Fillingham, chairman of the Friends of the Great Central Main Line who are leading the fundraising effort. As a thank you to everyone who has donated money for the work to replace the A60 bridge, we're delighted to have these images produced. Welcome to readers of Steam Railway, Heritage Railway and Railway magazine. This will reconnect two halves of the GCR to create an eighteen mile heritage line for steam and diesel tourist trains with far reaching benefits for the East Midlands economy. (The trust are managing the finances for Reunification). 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New update video published. Barnum's travelling circus) and some items that even herald from the days of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railwaythe GCR's title before completing the London extension. No, the Great Central Main Line is not an adequate alternative to HS2 The railway fraternity at the time greatly mourned these closures and made attempts to privately operate them in some form. Now placed under a new tarpaulin for further weather protection. We've new plans to share with you for phases three and four of Reunification - the Factory Flyover. The money has come from the local community and rail enthusiasts acrossthe country who want to see the two separate halves of the award winning East Midlands heritage line reconnected. We've now finished counting up your incredibly generous donations from Money Match March. With your generosity we have not only reached the one-hundred-thousand-pounds match funding offer for Money Match March but achieved it by some margin.We had a flurry of donations both through the post and online over the last few days of the campaign with people seeking to beat the deadline. (Awaiting resumption of overhaul), BR 20-ton Brake Van 954353 built in 1958. At East Leake station, houses were built on the former goods yard in the 1980s and some were built only yards from the remaining track. However, we had half a million pounds in the ring-fenced Reunification Fund before we launched Money Match March and comprehensively beating the one-hundred-thousand-pound barrier in donations releases the full matching amount of another one-hundred-thousand-pounds. If we reach two and a half million pounds we unlock the Factory Flyover, reach three million pounds and we unlock the work on the short embankment on the north side on the new (and already constructed) Midland Main Line bridge. BR Bogie Rail Sturgeon A 994271 built in 1956. Civil Engineering consultants Cass Hayward have revised the plans for this section of Reunification and we can share them with you. However you have donated, it all counts and means we are really building momentum. The bridge over the A60 is key to the project as one day it will carry two lines. We want to protect the Factory Flyover funds we've raised, so we're asking now for a one-off donation / new Standing Order for the A60 bridge work. A small gift every week (say 3 - the price of a coffee) adds up to £12 a month. [7][8] The line remained closed for the 2020 and 2021 seasons.[9]. Once again, we deeply appreciate your support for the project. 8th April 2021. commission consultant engineers to help design the rest of the scheme for us. Railway Archive - The Last Main Line 188) of Main Line magazine. The original station near the centre of the village of East Leake is currently disused and exists only as an island platform with the stairwell of the station's subway bricked up. Every donation helps. You may be interested in an online talk later in July which gives more details on the project. Beyond that is the connection to Network Rail and the Midland Main Line (MML) at Loughborough South Junction. ", Money continues to flow into the A60 bridge appeal at a substantial rate, so we're really grateful for everyone's contribution.We're well over the seventy thousand pounds mark now. The two original abutments will be used again for the new bridge but to accommodate a new design, are being lowered. Great Central Railway updates on extension - World Of Railways The History of the Great Central Railway On this website references to the "old" or "original" Great Central Railway refer, in the main, to the London Extension of the GCR which ran from Annesley, just north of Nottingham, through Nottingham Victoria, Leicester and Rugby to London Marylebone. (Operational), Mk1 CK (Composite Corridor) 16190 in lined maroon livery. We can't start building the next section until we have the vast majority of the finance in place. The bridge itself originally had 'Fifty Steps' but subsequent modifications have increased that number. While the event was postponed, they've still been able to make the very generous donation. The more you can contribute this year, the more we'll be able to finish. Whether this is your first visit to the Reunification mini-site, or if we're a regular stopping off point for you, we hope you'll find plenty of interest as the biggest project in railway preservation moves 'Forward!''. The route consists of almost 10 miles (16km) of the former Great Central Railway Main Line be (Operational), LMS 20-ton Brake Van 357771 built in 1927. Next, as our fundraising campaign for the A60 bridge replacement last year went so well, we didn't need to dip into any funds we'd already raised. Reunification is funded by your donations and the new A60 bridge is no exception. The new bridge is expected to be in place by late October / early November. A Trip on the Great Central Railway to Nottingham & Rugby You can also donate online by clicking here. MATCH FUNDING MAKES IT 20,000! Text UNIFY to 70970 to give 5 Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the old GCR locomotives began to reappear bearing new liveries with 'L N E R' on their tender and tank sides, and many new locomotives were also introduced to . Meanwhile we can't thank the people who have given us this Please see the details below. We can only say, thank you very much indeed for supporting this latest step forward in the Reunification campaign. Great Central Railway REUNIFICATION LATEST - Summer 2021 GCRofficial 11.8K subscribers Subscribe 60K views 1 year ago Over one million pounds raised for the two Factory Flyover elements. However, it's likely to be only one carriageway at a time to allow further work on the abutments. In the meantime, if you need to sort a Christmas present out, allow us to recommend our Reunification book which is selling really well. The Friends of the Great Central Main Line is offering supporters of the award winning heritage line a glimpse into the future! Great Central Railway (Nottingham) rebrands as Nottingham Heritage Railway 9th August 2021 Robin Jones News , Steam High Speed Train Class 43 power car No. Two parts have already been completed, the new A60 bridge is the third. Nottingham's Lost Railway Heritage - leverton.org Barnum Open Saloon No 666 built in 1910. Here's our latest film about our Reunification project, with the latest information on this exciting appeal February 2021 update Great news and a major step forward for Reunification. Work initially concentrated on restoring Rushcliffe Halt, but when Nottinghamshire County Council, which had acquired the whole of the 220 acre MoD site, agreed to lease 12 acres of the former MOD site to the Association, the grand scheme of the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre was devised to encompass not only railway preservation but any transport heritage relevant to the area. This is an appeal specifically for the A60 bridge. Great Central Railway leading the fundraising effort said "At the start of December we had raised From 2003, regular services to Rushcliffe Halt resumed. Rugby Central to Nottingham Victoria remains open for local service. The railway operates classic steam / diesel hauled services to Rushcliffe Halt and Loughborough. While one of the reclaimed Reading bridge decks will still be used to cross Railway Terrace road, the remainder of the new sixty metres of formation are expected to be created using pre stressed concrete bridge beams and decks. It was built by the Victorian navvies and was dug out by hand. Disused Stations: Ruddington Station The album was commissioned by the contractors Logan & Hemingway of Nottingham, and the photography and arrangement was carried out by S.W.A . (Stored). Your gift means the A60 bridge can be completed without dipping into the other funds saved for future phases of the project. up donations continue to arrive from around the world, boosting the amount raised even further. As soon as we have the majority of funds for the next phase of the project to hand, we'll resume construction." There will need to be some more road closures. It shows the new tram route crossing over the centre of the remaining Nottingham station. We'll also reschedule all our talks. It will support the award winning We start just south of the city centre at Arkwright Street, and travel North, above ground where possible. Rebuild the Great Central instead of building HS2? Here's why it's Thanks to sponsorship from the Friends group, high quality computer visualisations of the new bridge have now been produced, by HBPW of Retford, the consulting engineers for the scheme. Andy Fillingham, Chairman of the Friends of the Great Central Main Line said, "Friends has driven forward the fundraising for the Reunification project. While we have commissioned consulting engineers to help guide us towards spades going back into the ground, we will not build until we have the majority of the funds in place. In the meantime, a special thank you to the Burton Railway Society. For full terms see http://platform.nationalfundingscheme.org/terms-and-conditions With only 4.3 metres from the underside of the deck to the road, the old bridge has frequently "seen action" in terms of bridge strikes from high-sided vehicles trying to pass underneath and we are designing the new structure to achieve maximum additional headroom as well as building collision protection measures into the new structure. The railway crossed built-up Leicester on a Staffordshire blue brick viaduct, incorporating a series of fine girder bridges. preserved part of the Great Central to create an eighteen mile heritage railway. The future, now with pictures! The line travels over the River Soar at Stanford Viaduct, close to the Brush works, now part of WABTEC. Together, we are making great strides forward. To everyone who rattled buckets, manned stands, presented talks, funded and distributed flyers, banked the donations and sent out the 'Thank You' letters to donors, an enormous 'congratulations and thank you'! Your gift makes a huge difference. History [ edit] New name [ edit] (Operational, painted BR Black), BR Bogie Bolster 943545 built in 1953. Email blycett.gcr@gmail.com to order. Crack express trains with restaurant cars ran between Sheffield and London Marylebone over impressive viaducts, calling at large stations. We'll try and publish that as soon as we can at the end of the campaign. line and the wider East Midlands economy. A quick and simple way to do this is by Texting the word UNIFY to 70970 to give 5. Priced at just 25 or 30 including postage and packing (signed for delivery), all profits are going to DCRT and are ring-fenced for the Reunification Project. Contents 1 History: 1.1 New name: 1.1.1 Coat of arms: Barton Transport Leyland BTS1 VVO 735, built in 1957. Excitingly, more standing orders have been set up too. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}525313N 10943W / 52.887N 1.162W / 52.887; -1.162. RAILSCOT | London Extension (Great Central Railway) There are stations open to the public at Ruddington Fields (within the main centre site) and at Rushcliffe Halt. It's not too late to make a difference with a donation. Any support you give can really make a difference. Great Central Railway - Graces Guide The scaffold team on the pontoon will help install the bolts which secure the panel. It runs for 8.25 miles (13.28 km) [citation needed] between the town of Loughborough and a new terminus in the north of Leicester. Barton Transport Leyland Leopard HAL 703J, built in 1970. On top, two new concrete blocks, specially cast to receive the decks and beams have been fitted. Annesley Great Central Railway Tunnel - Pete's Nottingham Transport If you're new to the idea, find out more about the ambitious scheme here. Reunification appeal film There were pre-Christmas celebrations at the Great Central Railway when a fifty thousand pound grant arrived for the line's ambitious Reunification project. (Operational, painted BR Black), BR Shark ballast plough 993874 built in 1959. The Great Central Railway is in the foreground with Weekday Cross Junction on the far left, beyond which a tunnel leads to the site of Victoria station, and a girder bridge on the right, heading south. (Stored), BR Mk1 GUV (General Utility Van) 86565. Every time a new standing order donation is established, the pace of the project picks up. A small amount of just 12 a month can really make a difference over a year. There are seven phases of work to complete the link. Despite the full line between Loughborough South Jn and Ruddington being owned by the GCN(N), when the GCR(N) require to operate trains into East Leake or through to Loughborough, possession of the line is taken from Network Rail. GC Railway (Nottingham) operate every Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays from Easter through to October, and also Saturdays during school holidays, and during December ('Santa Specials' during weekends before Christmas and on Christmas Eve, and post Christmas services on 27/28 December). Great Central Railway through Leicester We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed so far to the next phase of the Reunification appeal. Any donation you give takes us closer to the day the first train runs along the full length of the railway. The new height restriction signs have also been installed on the bridge confirming there is now an extra three inches of headroom over the tarmac. Posted on 4th December 2020, 'The ideal Christmas present' say fundraisers. (Operational), Mk1 RSO (Restaurant Second Open) 1012 later Cinema Coach 150353. If you are giving to the Bridge to the Future or Crossing the Canal campaign your standing order will now go towards the Factory Flyover. With grateful thanks for all your support the funds available for building phase three and four continue to climb. The Great Central would also still require expensive tunnelling beneath Nottingham and Leicester. Want to help us keep building? For Network Rail to route freight trains onto the line during the week and GCR(N) to operate heritage trains at the weekend, a length of rail north of East Leake was removed to create two separate railways. Replacing it with a twin track structure, will allow freight trains from the national rail network to use the line again as well as paving the way for heritage trains to run between Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire as part of the Reunification project. In due course the main road signs will need to be replaced as they have the measurements for the old bridge. Already millions of /09/1967. This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 20:59. Everything given towards the fund, can only be spent on Reunification. Great Central Railway (heritage railway) - Wikipedia In fact, heritage passenger services last ran at Great Central Railway (Nottingham) (as it was then known) during the February 2020 half term - before all trains were cancelled and the centre closed to visitors due to the initial Coronavirus outbreak.Whilst other attractions at the Mere Way site managed to reopen in August 2020 in the wake of the first 'lockdown' - and then most of the . All that in a fortnight! We need to raise three million pounds to build the factory flyover section. Awaiting restoration. Barton Transport Leyland PS1/1 WAL 782, built in 1948. Needless to say it is an ideal Christmas present. When the Ministry of Defence depot at Ruddington was closed, the 2.77 miles (4.46km) of track from East Leake to Ruddington was no longer needed by BR. (painted army green), BR Palvan 778771 built in 1959. The more of us giving a small amount of every month, the sooner we'll build not just the 'Factory Flyover' phases but the rest of the project too. (painted BR Bauxite), BR Palvan 776155 built in 1957. The good news is, as we begin fundraising for this Factory Flyover section (as we're calling it) we already have one hundred thousand pounds in the kitty! This work was required to allow the machinery to reach the site. They were taken off site to the Welsh workshop of our contractors Centregreat Engineering. Once part of the Great Central Main Line from Sheffield to London, our route runs from Ruddington (just south of Nottingham) to the northern edge of Loughborough. The Great Central Railway The GCR London Extension ran like an arrow North to South through and under Nottingham city centre. The new bridge will also have crash protection built in. Six Wheeler No 373 GCR. Every pound donated in March (online, via cheque, standing order, by text of at a Friends of the GCR stand) will be matched by a donor up to an incredible 150,000. While we're reusing as much of the original abutments as we can, the new bridge deck will be supported in a different way. blycett.gcr@gmail.com, December News Update! Disused Stations: Rugby Central Station Posted on 24th June 2020. (Undergoing overhaul). (The trust are managing the finances for Reunification). Posted on 4th June 2020. To that end, the LNER GC Heritage Trust (which raises funds and organises the membership club for the northern end of the line) offered to match the first 10,000 pound for pound. Posted on 6th July 2020. Order now, via email to blycett.gcr@gmail.com (payment by bank transfer available). After a year which has curtailed a lot of our We began with one hundred thousand pounds and thanks to the incredible generosity of supporters around the country we've reached one hundred and fifty thousand pounds." It's going to take a few more days to process the latest figures and bring you right up to date.