Date: 21/06/2012

A multi-million pound project to restore a historic steam railway to its former glory is now complete. The Great Central Railway's double track project 22 years in the making has finally been realised with the opening of a new signal box adding the finishing touch.

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Newly built Pacific 60163 Tornado fresh from Darlington Works (the former Hopetown Carriage Works) is put through its paces on the Great Central line near Loughborough on 10 September 2008.
Location: Loughborough Central
Company: London Extension (Great Central Railway)
21/09/2008 Peter Todd

Deltic D9009 Alycidon stands at Loughborough Central on 26 July 2010. The locomotive is visiting the GCR until September.
Location: Loughborough Central
Company: London Extension (Great Central Railway)
26/07/2010 Mark Poustie

The 11-coach RCTS Great Central Rail Tour pauses for a photostop at Aylesbury on its way north on 13 August 1966. The railtour was run to mark the end of through passenger services over much of the GC London Extension the following month. The special had started from Waterloo, arriving at Aylesbury via Kew East, Acton Wells and Neasden South Junctions behind West Country Pacific no 34002 Salisbury. The locomotive took the special on to Nottingham Victoria over the GC.
Location: Aylesbury
Company: Wycombe Railway
13/08/1966 K A Gray