The Great Central Railway: The Lost Mainline Reborn! | Another Station Another Mile

In 1899, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and their General Manager Edward Watkin realised an ambitious vision to connect their own network in the North with London city in the South via a trunk route through the East Midlands. This grand, expensive project became known as the Great Central Main Line, and for 70 years it transported passengers and freight up and down the spine of England. Then the infamous Beeching cuts of the 1960s happened, and almost the entire route – nearly 100 miles of track and stations – was ripped up and lost forever. Well, all except one section. A small preservation group managed to save one section of this once-vast main line in between Leicester and Nottingham. And after another 50 years of hard work, political wrangling, blood, sweat and tears, this is their own version of Edward Watkin's vision realised. Welcome, one and all, to the Great Central Railway!

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