Date: 02/07/2014

Planning permission has been granted for a new £1m bridge that will create 18 miles of heritage railway across Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Great Central Railway was given the go-ahead by Charnwood Borough Council for the structure, which will be built over the Midland Mainline track. The railway's managing director said a decade old dream was now moving towards reality.

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Work to build a £1m link between two heritage railway lines used as film sets has begun.

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The Gap at the south end of Loughborough (Midland) station where the former Great Central Railway crossed the Midland main line. The embankment of the former GCR runs off to the left. View south in July 2003.
Location: Loughborough Midland
Company: Midland Counties Railway
14/07/2003 Ewan Crawford

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

The GCR Leicester North station slowly thawing out on a quiet January Friday. Notice the brick cutout for the now demolished signal box on the right and the bricked-up entrance to the former Belgrave and Birstall station on the distant overbridge [see image 31066].
Location: Leicester North
Company: London Extension (Great Central Railway)
15/01/2010 Ken Strachan